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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Publications

• • 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
• • BabyHuBERT: Multilingual Self-Supervised Learning for Segmenting Speakers in Child-Centered Long-Form Recordings
  • Théo Charlot*, Tarek Kunze*, Maxime Poli, Alejandrina Cristia, Emmanuel Dupoux, Marvin Lavechin
  • Interspeech, 2026
• • 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
• • 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
• • fastabx: A library for efficient computation of ABX discriminability
  • Maxime Poli, Emmanuel Chemla, Emmanuel Dupoux
  • arXiv, 2025
• • Improving Spoken Language Modeling with Phoneme Classification: A Simple Fine-tuning Approach
  • Maxime Poli, Emmanuel Chemla, Emmanuel Dupoux
  • EMNLP, 2024
• • Modeling the initial state of early phonetic learning in infants
  • Maxime Poli, Thomas Schatz, Emmanuel Dupoux, Marvin Lavechin
  • Language Development Research, 2024
• • Introducing topography in convolutional neural networks
  • Maxime Poli, Emmanuel Dupoux, Rachid Riad
  • ICASSP, 2023
• • Shennong: a Python toolbox for audio speech features extraction
  • Mathieu Bernard*, Maxime Poli*, Julien Karadayi, Emmanuel Dupoux
  • Behavior Research Methods, 2023

∗ Equal contribution.