Youssef Saied

I'm a PhD student in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Geneva. My advisor is François Fleuret. Before that, I studied physics and data science at EPFL.

I'm interested in diffusion models and their applications.

My favourite jazz album is Getz/Gilberto.

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Papers

2026 Gaussian Distillation of Flow Policies Youssef Saied, Ziyad Sheebaelhamd, Claire Vernade and François Fleuret
arXiv preprint
[arxiv] [project] [thread]

2026 Velocity Scaling in Flow Matching Youssef Saied and François Fleuret
arXiv preprint
[arxiv] [thread]

2026 Pooling Representation Autoencoders for Efficient Diffusion Ramón Calvo-González, Youssef Saied and François Fleuret
arXiv preprint
[arxiv] [thread]

2026 Normalization Equivariance for Arbitrary Backbones Youssef Saied and François Fleuret
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
[arxiv] [code] [thread]