Publications

2026

  1. Learning Latent Action World Models in the Wild
    Quentin Garrido, Tushar Nagarajan, Basile Terver, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
  2. Interpreting Physics in Video World Models
    Sonia Joseph, Quentin Garrido, Randall Balestriero, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
    Also presented at the ICML 2026 Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop and the IJCAI 2026 Workshop on Safe Physical AI
  3. A Lightweight Library for Energy-Based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures
    Basile Terver, Randall Balestriero, Megi Dervishi, and 8 more authors
    In ICLR 2026 Workshop on World Models: Understanding, Modelling and Scaling, 2026

2025

  1. A Shortcut-aware Video-QA Benchmark for Physical Understanding via Minimal Video Pairs
    Benno Krojer, Mojtaba Komeili, Candace Ross, and 4 more authors
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025
  2. V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning
    Mido Assran, Adrien Bardes, David Fan, and 26 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09985, 2025
  3. IntPhys 2: Benchmarking Intuitive Physics Understanding In Complex Synthetic Environments
    Florian Bordes, Quentin Garrido, Justine T Kao, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09849, 2025
  4. Self-supervised learning beyond invariant image representations
    Quentin Garrido
    Université Gustave Eiffel, May 2025
    Advised by Laurent Najman and Yann LeCun
  5. Intuitive physics understanding emerges from self-supervised pretraining on natural videos
    Quentin Garrido, Nicolas Ballas, Mahmoud Assran, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.11831, May 2025

2024

  1. UniBench: Visual Reasoning Requires Rethinking Vision-Language Beyond Scaling
    Haider Al-Tahan, Quentin Garrido, Randall Balestriero, and 3 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Datasets and Benchmarks Track), May 2024
  2. An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling
    Florian Bordes, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Anurag Ajay, and 38 more authors
    In , May 2024
  3. Scaling Vision-Language Models Does Not Improve Relational Understanding: The Right Learning Objective Helps
    Haider Al-Tahan, Quentin Garrido, Randall Balestriero, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, May 2024
  4. Learning and Leveraging World Models in Visual Representation Learning
    Quentin Garrido, Mahmoud Assran, Nicolas Ballas, and 3 more authors
    In , May 2024
  5. Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Video
    Adrien Bardes, Quentin Garrido, Jean Ponce, and 5 more authors
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, May 2024
    Featured Certification

2023

  1. Self-Supervised Learning with Lie Symmetries for Partial Differential Equations
    Quentin Garrido, Grégoire Mialon, Hannah Lawrence, and 3 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, May 2023
    Equal contribution: Q. Garrido and G. Mialon
  2. RankMe: Assessing the downstream performance of pretrained self-supervised representations by their rank
    Quentin Garrido, Randall Balestriero, Laurent Najman, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, May 2023
  3. Self-supervised learning of Split Invariant Equivariant representations
    Quentin Garrido, Laurent Najman, and Yann Lecun
    In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, May 2023
  4. On the duality between contrastive and non-contrastive self-supervised learning
    Quentin Garrido, Yubei Chen, Adrien Bardes, and 2 more authors
    In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, May 2023
    Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention
  5. A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning
    Randall Balestriero, Mark Ibrahim, Vlad Sobal, and 16 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12210, May 2023
  6. Guillotine Regularization: Why removing layers is needed to improve generalization in Self-Supervised Learning
    Florian Bordes, Randall Balestriero, Quentin Garrido, and 2 more authors
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, May 2023
  7. The Robustness Limits of SoTA Vision Models to Natural Variation
    Mark Ibrahim, Quentin Garrido, Ari S. Morcos, and 1 more author
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, May 2023

2022

  1. Visualizing hierarchies in scRNA-seq data using a density tree-biased autoencoder
    Quentin Garrido, Sebastian Damrich, Alexander Jäger, and 4 more authors
    Bioinformatics, May 2022
    Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper