Maxime Poli

I’m a third year PhD student in the Cognitive Machine Learning team of the LSCP at École Normale Supérieure, advised by Emmanuel Dupoux and Emmanuel Chemla.

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maxime.poli@ens.psl.eu

Selected publications

• • Modeling the initial state of early phonetic learning in infants
  • Maxime Poli, Thomas Schatz, Emmanuel Dupoux, Marvin Lavechin
  • Language Development Research, 2024
• • SpidR: Learning Fast and Stable Linguistic Units for Spoken Language Models Without Supervision
  • Maxime Poli, Mahi Luthra*, Youssef Benchekroun*, Yosuke Higuchi, Martin Gleize, Jiayi Shen, Robin Algayres, Yu-An Chung, Mido Assran, Juan Pino, Emmanuel Dupoux
  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025
• • SpidR-Adapt: A Universal Speech Representation Model for Few-Shot Adaptation
  • Mahi Luthra*, Jiayi Shen*, Maxime Poli*, Angelo Ortiz Tandazo, Yosuke Higuchi, Youssef Benchekroun, Martin Gleize, Charles-Éric Saint-James, Dongyan Lin, Phillip Rust, Angel Villar, Surya Parimi, Vanessa Stark, Rashel Moritz, Juan Pino, Yann LeCun, Emmanuel Dupoux
  • ACL, 2026 Oral presentation
• • DiscoPhon: Benchmarking the Unsupervised Discovery of Phoneme Inventories With Discrete Speech Units
  • Maxime Poli, Manel Khentout, Angelo Ortiz Tandazo, Ewan Dunbar, Emmanuel Chemla, Emmanuel Dupoux
  • Interspeech, 2026