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Our notes from the Cloud Nord 2024
We attended the CloudNord conference on October 10th at EuraTechnologie. If you’re not from the Lille area (or even if you are 😄) take the virtual tour to discover this great place. It’s the largest and older European incubator. Our takeaways from some of the talks Should we be afraid of AI? (Manuel Davy, Vekia) We have…
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Empowering Voices: The Women Do Tech Too Conference
On October 2, the WomenDoTechToo initiative at Criteo reached a significant milestone. After successfully hosting local meetups across various locations for several years, we felt it was time to take a bold step forward by organizing a half-day conference at our headquarters in Paris. In this article, we invite you to enjoy and explore the…
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Research Card: Repeated Bidding with Dynamic Value
This Research Card aims to formulate an optimal bidding strategy for repeated auctions, considering how a buyer’s utility is affected by the time since their last purchase. It also explores the costs involved in implementing simpler shading policies. Title: Repeated Bidding with Dynamic Value Short Title: How to optimally account for the user fatigue in…
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FAIRPLAY: Research program to Optimize Fair & Private Interactions between ML Agents in AI Marketpla
How can we ensure that an advertisement or a job offer can be seen in a non-discriminatory way by the people they are displayed to? Inria, ENSAE (National School of Statistics and Economics, part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris), and the Adtech leader Criteo founded the FAIRPLAY program in 2022. This groundbreaking initiative addresses…
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OSFC, a unique conference to support open-source firmware initiatives
The 7th edition of the Open Source Firmware Conference took place in Bochum (Germany), gathering 160 engineers for 3 days. Authors: Vincent Minet, Anisse Astier & Erwan Velu Open Source is a major topic in improving auditability, security, and debugging of firmware running in servers operated by infrastructure owners. It’s not a surprise to see major…
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Research Card: Mode Identification with Partial Feedback
An adaptive algorithm that learns the best sequence of questions to identify as quickly as possible (in terms of questions) the most probable label for data points. Paper: Mode Identification with Partial Feedback Authors: Vivien Cabannes (Meta), Charles Arnal (Univ. Paris Saclay), V. Perchet (Ensae & Criteo) Category: Annotation Revue: COLT 2024 Why did we work…
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Our participation in the International Conference on Machine Learning 2024
The 41st edition of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) took place from July 21 to July 27, 2024, at the Messe Wien Exhibition Congress Center in Vienna, Austria. This prestigious event, known for showcasing groundbreaking research in machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, and data science, adopted a hybrid format this year, allowing both…
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Attending to JEP-TALN RECITAL 2024
JEP-TALN RECITAL is the main gathering of French-speaking NLP researchers. It combines three historical French conferences. Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole: centered on speech. Traitement Automatique de la Langue Naturelle: centered on text. Rencontres des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique et Traitement Automatique des Langues: a space for students to showcase their work. We attended to…
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Empowering Women in Tech: Our Presence at European Women in Technology 2024
Last June, we were honored to once again participate in the European Women in Tech conference held in Amsterdam. This renowned event brought together thousands of developers and engineers from around the globe with a shared mission: to champion and empower women in the technology industry. The focal point of the 2024 edition was “Human…
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Research Card: Fixed Point Label Attribution for Real-Time Bidding
Research Card on how to attribute positive outcomes to touchpoints in a sequence of displays leading to a conversion. Paper: Fixed Point Label Attribution for Real-Time BiddingAuthors: Martin Bompaire, Antoine Désir, Benjamin HeymannCategory: Operations ResearchRevue: Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Why did we work on this topic (the problem we want to solve)? In display advertising,…