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Cyrille Mascart

Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueORCID 0000-0002-8600-9545Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Neuroscience· 2 Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 3 Approach:statistical model· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Approach:contrastive learning· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:large language model· 1

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High-Fidelity Tuning of Olfactory Mixture Distances in the Perceptual Space of Smell Through a Community Effort

Vahid Satarifard, Laura Sisson, Yikun Han, Pedro Ilídio, Matej Hladiš, Maxence Lalis, Xuebo Song, Tiffany Yang, Wenjie Yin, Aharon Ravia, Xingyu Zheng, Gaia Andreoletti, Jacob W. Albrecht, Robert Pellegrino, Wang Ze-hua, , Alexei A. Koulakov

The paper presents an ensemble model that improves predictions of perceptual similarity between odor mixtures using a curated dataset and collaborative challenge results.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 4, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Grounding olfactory perception in language: Benchmarks and models for generating natural language odor descriptions

Cyrille Mascart, Khue Tran, Khristina V. Samoilova, Liam Thomas Storan, Tingkai Liu, Alexei A. Koulakov

ODIEU pairs human odor texts for 10,124 molecules with olfaction-tuned Sentence-BERT evaluators; CIRANO, a frozen GPT-2 with a molecular prefix, generates descriptions approaching human agreement.

bioRxiv · Mar 5, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition✦ In-depth digest

Scalability of large neural network simulations via activity tracking with time asynchrony and procedural connectivity

Cyrille Mascart, Gilles Scarella, Patricia Reynaud-Bouret, Alexandre Muzy

The paper introduces an algorithm for efficiently simulating large neural networks with time asynchrony, achieving linear computational and memory complexity.

Neural Computation · Jul 27, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience