Céline Moucer

2 rue Simone Iff

75012 Paris, France

Office C406 (on floor 4)

celine[dot]moucer[at]inria[dot]fr

I am a third year PhD student at Inria Paris, under the supervision of Adrien Taylor and Francis Bach.

My research focuses on developing constructive approaches to concentration inequalities. Previously, I worked on first-order convex optimization methods, exploring their applications to potentially sparse machine learning problems and their continuous-time formulations. I am particularly interested in computer-aided techniques for the worst-case analysis of optimization methods, a.k.a. Performance Estimation Problems.

Before starting my PhD, I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (X2016) and got a master degree in Maths, Vision and Learning in 2020 (master MVA) from Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole des Ponts.

You can find a list of my publications and codes here.

news

Aug 30, 2023	Our paper on continuous-time Lyapunov analysis was accepted at SIOPT!
Aug 24, 2023	Presenting PEPit and continuous-time PEP at EUROPT2023.
Feb 14, 2023	PEP talks took place à Louvain-la-Neuve, thanks to all the participants!
Oct 24, 2022	During two days, we welcome 25 high school girls at INRIA Paris as part of the RJMI program.
Jul 25, 2022	Presenting PEPit at ICCOPT.
Sep 1, 2021	Starting my PhD at INRIA Paris.

selected publications

journal

PEPit: computer-assisted worst-case analyses of first-order optimization methods in Python

Baptiste Goujaud, Céline Moucer, François Glineur, Julien Hendrickx, Adrien Taylor, and Aymeric Dieuleveut

Mathematical Programming Computation 2024

Bib HTML PDF Code

@article{2022Goujaud,
  author = {Goujaud, Baptiste and Moucer, Céline and Glineur, François and Hendrickx, Julien and Taylor, Adrien and Dieuleveut, Aymeric},
  title = {PEPit: computer-assisted worst-case analyses of first-order optimization methods in Python},
  journal = {Mathematical Programming Computation},
  year = {2024}
}

journal

A systematic approach to Lyapunov analyses of continuous-time models in convex optimization

Céline Moucer, Adrien Taylor, and Francis Bach

SIAM journal on Optimization 2023

Bib HTML PDF Code

@article{2022Moucer,
  author = {Moucer, Céline and Taylor, Adrien and Bach, Francis},
  title = {A systematic approach to Lyapunov analyses of continuous-time models in convex optimization},
  journal = {SIAM journal on Optimization},
  year = {2023}
}

preprint

Geometry-dependent matching pursuit: a transition phase for convergence on linear regression and LASSO

Céline Moucer, Adrien Taylor, and Francis Bach

2024

Bib HTML PDF Code

@article{moucer2024geometrydependent,
  title = {Geometry-dependent matching pursuit: a transition phase for convergence on linear regression and LASSO},
  author = {Moucer, Céline and Taylor, Adrien and Bach, Francis},
  year = {2024},
}

preprint

Constructive approaches to concentration inequalities with independent random variables

Celine Moucer, Adrien Taylor, and Francis Bach

2024

Bib HTML PDF Code

@article{moucer2024constructiveapproachesconcentrationinequalities,
  title = {Constructive approaches to concentration inequalities with independent random variables},
  author = {Moucer, Celine and Taylor, Adrien and Bach, Francis},
  year = {2024},
}