Congratulations to Nathan Allaire, PhD student at Polytechnique Montréal. He was awarded the the Best Industrial Paper Award during the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2025) held in Porto, Portugal.
Prizes and awards
2025
Best Industrial Paper Award
"Zeroth Order Optimization for Pretraining Language Models" is authored by Nathan Allaire, Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad, Sébastien Le Digabel and Vahid Partovi Nia
14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2025)
2023
Research Scholarship for Co-supervised Doctoral Student