I am a researcher at Inria, Brittany, France (ARTISHAU team). I am leading the scientific council of the Société Informatique de France, and I am the president of an association promoting free software for mail/hosting in Brittany.
My current research is about auditing and evaluating black-box algorithms and AIs (or links to papers) in the context of decision-making methods (algorithms, neural-network models, LLMs, etc). In other words, I am interested in auditability, that is: what can or cannot be audited/evaluated, and how.
Recent News
- ERX project, an AI-driven vending machine that questions the freedom of choice facing AI-based decisions.
- New available postdoc position for the sequoIA chair FANG here.
- SRDS’25 paper “Robust Fingerprinting of Graphs with FinG”, best paper award.
- ECML’25 paper “P2NIA: Privacy-Preserving Non-Iterative Auditing”.
- ICML’25 paper “Robust ML Auditing using Prior Knowledge”; spotlight top 2,6% papers.
- AAAI’25 paper “Queries, Representation & Detection: The Next 100 Model Fingerprinting Schemes”.
- Interview for the Data Skeptic podcast on “LLMs hallucinte graphs too”, january 2025.
- Interview dans Les Echos “Face à des IA trop humaines, le défi de l’identification” ou en PDF, 12 nov 2024.
- French ANR project starting, on “passive or active monitoring and auditing of models” (4 years duration). Recruiting a PhD candidate and an engineer. More info: bit.ly/PACMAM
Last PCs
- AAAI’26: 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- ECAI’25: 28TH European conference on artificial intelligence
- ECML/PKDD’25: European Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
- KDD’24: 30TH ACM SIGKDD conference on knowledge discovery and data mining
- ECAI’24: 27TH European conference on artificial intelligence
- AIsec’24: 17TH ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security
- ECML/PKDD’24: European Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
- SDM’24: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
Selected publications
- Setting the Record Straighter on Shadow Banning, Erwan Le Merrer, Benoît Morgan, Gilles Trédan. In INFOCOM, 2021. PDF
- Remote Explainability faces the bouncer problem, Erwan Le Merrer, Gilles Trédan. In Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020. PDF
- Adversarial Frontier Stitching for Remote Neural Network Watermarking, Erwan Le Merrer, Patrick Perez, Gilles Trédan. In Neural Comput & Applic 32, 9233–9244, 2020. PDF
- Second order centrality: Distributed assessment of nodes criticity in complex networks, AM Kermarrec, E Le Merrer, B Sericola, G Trédan. Computer Communications 34 (5), 619-628, 2011. PDF & code in NetworkX
Audit related projets
- Co-organized the WAAA workshop on algorithmic audits of algorithms
- Monitoring 2022 elections on YouTube.
- Audited shadow banning practices by Twitter.
- Atelier “Algorithmes en Boite-Noire”, in 2019.
- ERX project, an AI-driven vending machine, to question the liberty of choice facing AI-based decisions.