I am generally interested in problems at the intersection of healthcare, learning theory and trustworthy ML. I have recently started working on sequential decision making, large language models and foundation models. 

Publications

Variational Inference for Uncertain Optimal Transport via Sinkhorn Parametrization

A. De, L. Bleistein, A.F. Thielmann, B. Säfken. ICML 2026, 2026.

Optimal Transport under Group Fairness Constraints

L. Bleistein, M. Dagréou, F. Andrade, T. Boudou, A. Bellet. ICML 2026 (Spotlight, top 2.2% of paper), 2026. Online access.

Oral presentation at CAp 2026.

Dynamical Survival Analysis with Controlled Latent States

L. Bleistein*, V.T. Nguyen*, A. Fermanian, A. Guilloux, ICML 2024. Online access.

On the Generalisation and Approximation Capacities of Neural Controlled Differential Equations

L. Bleistein, A. Guilloux, ICLR 2024 (previously presented at ICML Workshop on New Frontiers in Learning, Control, and Dynamics, 2023). Online access.

Learning the Dynamics of Sparsely Observed Interacting Systems

L. Bleistein*, A. Fermanian*, A.S. Jannot, A. Guilloux, ICML 2023. Online access.

Parcours Hospitaliers des Patients Atteints de la COVID-19 de Mars 2020 à Janvier 2021

H. El-Rais, M. Aflak-Kattar, L. Bleistein, Les Dossiers de la DREES, 2021. Online access.

Preprints

Privacy Auditing with Zero (0) Training Run

T. Cebere, M. Even, L. Bleistein, A. Bellet. Preprint, 2026. Online access.

Spotlight presentation at EuroTDP 2026.

Causal Evaluation of Membership Inference Attacks

M. Even, C. Berenfeld, L. Bleistein, T. Cebere, J. Josse, A. Bellet. Preprint, 2026. Online access.

Poster presentation at CAp 2026.

Optimal Transport with Heterogeneously Missing Data

L. Bleistein, A. Bellet, J. Josse. Preprint, 2025. Online access.

Predicting Gene Essentiality and Drug Response from Perturbation Screens in Preclinical Cancer Models

B. Bodinier, G. Dissez, L. Bleistein, A. Dauvin. Preprint, 2025. Online access.

Large Language Models as Markov Chains

O. Zekri, A. Odonnat, A. Benechehab, L. Bleistein, N. Boullé, I. Redko. Preprint, 2024. Online access.