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Erwan Le Merrer

Inria, Rennes, France
Verified email at inria.fr
Cited by 3017

Distributed deep learning on edge-devices: Feasibility via adaptive compression

C Hardy, EL Merrer, B Sericola - arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04683, 2017 - arxiv.org
A large portion of data mining and analytic services use modern machine learning techniques,
such as deep learning. The state-of-the-art results by deep learning come at the price of …

Fegan: Scaling distributed gans

…, A Guirguis, AM Kermarrec, EL Merrer - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Existing approaches to distribute Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) either (i) fail to
scale for they typically put the two components of a GAN (the generator and the discriminator) …

LLMs hallucinate graphs too: a structural perspective

EL Merrer, G Trédan - International Conference on Complex Networks and …, 2024 - Springer
It is known that LLMs do hallucinate, that is, they return incorrect information as facts. In this
paper, we introduce the possibility to study these hallucinations under a structured form: …

The bouncer problem: Challenges to remote explainability

EL Merrer, G Trédan - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01432, 2019 - arxiv.org
The concept of explainability is envisioned to satisfy society's demands for transparency on
machine learning decisions. The concept is simple: like humans, algorithms should explain …

Robust ML auditing using prior knowledge

…, M Vujasinovic, S Biswas, G Tredan, EL Merrer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Among the many technical challenges to enforcing AI regulations, one crucial yet underexplored
problem is the risk of audit manipulation. This manipulation occurs when a platform …

Token-Efficient Change Detection in LLM APIs

T Chauvin, C Lalanne, EL Merrer, JM Loubes… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2026 - arxiv.org
Remote change detection in LLMs is a difficult problem. Existing methods are either too
expensive for deployment at scale, or require initial white-box access to model weights or grey-…

LLMs prompted for graphs: hallucinations and generative capabilities

G Richardeau, S Chali, EL Merrer, C Penzo… - Applied Network …, 2026 - Springer
Large Language Models (LLMs) are nowadays prompted for a wide variety of tasks. In this
article, we investigate their ability in reciting and generating graphs. We first study the ability …

Energy aware self-organizing density management in wireless sensor networks

EL Merrer, V Gramoli, AM Kermarrec… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Energy consumption is the most important factor that determines sensor node lifetime. The
optimization of wireless sensor network lifetime targets not only the reduction of energy …

Fast in-spectrum graph watermarks

JG Bourrée, AM Kermarrec, EL Merrer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
We address the problem of watermarking graph objects, which consists in hiding information
within them, to prove their origin. The two existing methods to watermark graphs use …

Fbi: Fingerprinting models with benign inputs

T Maho, T Furon, EL Merrer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03169, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in the fingerprinting of deep neural networks detect instances of models,
placed in a black-box interaction scheme. Inputs used by the fingerprinting protocols are …