Vincent ROGER, (PhD)

Benchmarking NumPy vs JAX vs PyTorch

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Benchmarking NumPy vs JAX vs PyTorch

Introduction

When working with numerical computing in Python, three libraries dominate the landscape: NumPy, ...

Efficient Docker Builds with uv

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Efficient Docker Builds with `uv`

Python packaging and dependency resolution can be long pain points in Dockerized workflows. Traditional tools like pip...

Benchmark: Pandas, Polars, DuckDB on Categorical Parquet

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Storing structured sensor data in Parquet format can significantly reduce both disk and memory usage, especially when using categorical encodings instead of ...

My participation to Hackaviz

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hackaviz is an annual open data visualization challenge hosted by Toulouse DataViz. I participated to this 2025 edition. It is organized by the awesome folks...

SpeechBot - the beginning

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This post is the starting point of my new tutorial series on creating an efficient speech-to-speech agent. We will review the choices made and the type of ar...

Website migration to MkDocs

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After maintaining this website using Jekyll for a couple of years, I decided it was time for a change. As much as I enjoyed the flexibility Jekyll offered, t...

Welcome to my blog

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:16:12 +0000

This blog features articles on machine learning, visualizations I have created, as well as programming tips and advice on the Linux environment.

All article...

Improving Speed and Quality of Image Generation

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the third installment of our series on the Diffusers library. In this post, we’ll explore strategies to enhance both the inference speed and the q...

Generate images from labels with conditional model

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Following my previous post on unconditional generation using the diffusers library (link here), we will dive into c...

Generate images with unconditional model

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In recent years, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool in the domain of generative modeling, often rivaling GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks)...

Datavisualization tools for Python

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Hello again, it has been a while!

Recently, I did a presentation on Python libraries for data visualizations. I compared them and presented usage examples. ...

My dataviz for The Grand Melee

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This post is the third episode in my Age of Empires 2 tournament series (check out my first and [my second](../2022...

My dataviz for Warlords

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This post is the second episode of my Age of Empires 2 tournaments series (have a look at my first one if you missed it). A...

My Red Bull Wololo Legacy dataviz

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On spare time, I play Age of Empires 2 (the video game of my childhood). I also like to watch some tournaments with pro players. Recently, there was the bigg...

My PhD experience

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

It's been a while; there was no second-year review due to mixed feelings during COVID. But thanks to my supervisors, I managed to overcome my negative though...

My switch to Manjaro Linux

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

!!! warning "I do not recommend this distribution" After two years of use, I no longer recommend Manjaro due to recurring security and stability concerns...

Hackaviz 2022

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog post, I will present you my participation to the Hackaviz 2022. The Hackaviz is a contest org...

Badaboom - Fireballs

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this new blog post, I'm going to present you the continuation of my work on my library badaboom). This article fol...

Hackaviz 2021

Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this new blog post, I will present you my participation to the Hackaviz 2021. The Hackaviz is a contest...

BadaBoom - Asteroids

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In this new blog post, I'm going to present you a little project I've been doing lately. Being a space enthusiast, I was looking for a simple database that w...

Create a documentation with Sphinx on GitHub

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

!!!info "Note" I now use mkdocs for all my documentation projects, including this website.

Previously I announced a preview of the Audio Loader librar...

Automation using ssh key

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I started my blog with a post telling you how to let Git remember your credentials for websites not supporting ssh keys (the post is [here](../2019/09-09-sav...

Tweaks to speedup Deep Learning on servers

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Learning a Deep Learning model can take a very long time to learn. Indeed, it is possible to take a month to learn a state-of-the-art model (depending on you...

Audio loader

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

!!!info "Note" This project began as a side endeavor alongside my thesis. However, with the emergence of torchaudio and speechbrain, I no longer saw ...

Configurations for working at home

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This post represents all configurations that I have done to work at home. It is especially useful when you are under quarantine (or will be as the COVID-19 p...

Survey from Large Speech Corpora to Limited Data

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

My new survey is out. It reviews automatic techniques used for automatic speech recognition tasks from Large ...

Format a bootable USB key

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This post is mostly a remainder for me as it struggles me every time 😜. After making a USB key bootable with any distribution, I get an error message when I ...

Improve your bash terminal experience

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This post is focused on bash configuration. I use bash as it is the default shell in most Linux distributions. I use it daily and after some tweaks it better...

Use Zotero to generate BibTeX files for your papers

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

What is Zotero?

Zotero is a software that allows you to collect, organize, share and synchronize research papers (or other res...

Review of my first year as a PhD student

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

After almost a year (11 months), here I share with you my first year as a PhD student. In this post I will talk about the subject of my PhD thesis, the direc...