Mustapha Bounoua

Research Scientist specializing in multimodal generative models.

Research Interests: Multimodal Generative Models, Diffusion Models, Diffusion Large Language Models, Multimodal Alignment.

news

Feb 11, 2026	Check out our new paper Improved Sampling Schedules for Discrete Diffusion Models
Jan 20, 2026	Our paper TENDE: Transfer Entropy Neural Diffusion Estimation has been accepted at AISTATS 2026 !
Jan 20, 2026	My thesis manuscript is available online Harnessing Multimodality : Diffusion based Generative Modeling and Information Estimation
May 1, 2025	Our paper Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling has been accepted at ICML 2025 !
Mar 11, 2025	Check out our new paper Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling

selected publications

ICML

Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling

Mustapha Bounoua, Giulio Franzese, and Pietro Michiardi

In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

Poster

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{bounoua2025learningmatchunpaireddata,
  title = {Learning to Match Unpaired Data with Minimum Entropy Coupling},
  author = {Bounoua, Mustapha and Franzese, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year = {2025},
  presentation_type = {Poster},
}

ICML

SΩI: Score-based O-INFORMATION Estimation

Mustapha Bounoua, Giulio Franzese, and Pietro Michiardi

In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

📊 Poster

Bib

@inproceedings{bounoua2024somegai,
  title = {SΩI: Score-based O-INFORMATION Estimation},
  author = {Bounoua, Mustapha and Franzese, Giulio and Michiardi, Pietro},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
}

ICLR

MINDE: Mutual Information Neural Diffusion Estimation

Giulio Franzese, Mustapha Bounoua, and Pietro Michiardi

In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

Poster

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{franzese2023minde,
  title = {MINDE: Mutual Information Neural Diffusion Estimation},
  author = {Franzese, Giulio and Bounoua, Mustapha and Michiardi, Pietro},
  booktitle = {The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year = {2024},
  presentation_type = {Poster},
}