publications

2026

  1. Preserving Unstable Modes Through Inverse Dynamics in JEPA World Models
    Preserving Unstable Modes Through Inverse Dynamics in JEPA World Models
    Leonardo F Toso, Yann LeCun, James Anderson, and Oumayma Bounou
    Preprint 2026
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  2. AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model
    AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model
    Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Yann LeCun, and Mengye Ren
    Preprint 2026
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  3. Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning
    Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning
    Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Gaoyue Zhou, Randall Balestriero, Tim GJ Rudner, Yann LeCun, and Mengye Ren
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026
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  4. Value-Guided Action Planning with JEPA World Models
    Value-Guided Action Planning with JEPA World Models
    Matthieu Destrade, Oumayma Bounou, Quentin Le Lidec, Jean Ponce, and Yann LeCun
    World Modeling Workshop 2026
    Paper

2025

  1. Closing the Train–Test Gap in World Models for Gradient-Based Planning
    Closing the Train–Test Gap in World Models for Gradient-Based Planning
    Rohun Agrawal, Nimit Kalra, Arjun Parthasarathy, Yann LeCun, Oumayma Bounou, Pavel Izmailov, and Micah Goldblum
    Preprint 2025
    Paper

2024

  1. Learning System Dynamics from Sensory Input under Optimal Control Principles
    Learning System Dynamics from Sensory Input under Optimal Control Principles
    Oumayma Bounou, Jean Ponce, and Justin Carpentier
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024
    Paper

2023

  1. Leveraging Proximal Optimization for Differentiating Optimal Control Solvers
    Leveraging Proximal Optimization for Differentiating Optimal Control Solvers
    Oumayma Bounou, Jean Ponce, and Justin Carpentier
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2023
    Paper

2021

  1. Online Learning and Control of Complex Dynamical Systems from Sensory Input
    Online Learning and Control of Complex Dynamical Systems from Sensory Input
    Oumayma Bounou, Jean Ponce, and Justin Carpentier
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021
    Paper
  2. Large-Scale Historical Watermark Recognition: dataset and a new consistency-based approach
    Xi Shen, Ilaria Pastrolin, Oumayma Bounou, Spyros Gidaris, Marc Smith, Olivier Poncet, and Mathieu Aubry
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2021
    Paper

2020

  1. A Web Application for Watermark Recognition
    Oumayma Bounou, Tom Monnier, Ilaria Pastrolin, Xi Shen, Christine Benevent, Marie-Françoise Limon-Bonnet, François Bougard, Mathieu Aubry, Marc H. Smith, Olivier Poncet, and Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy
    Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities 2020
    Paper