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International audience; The Zoetrope Genetic Programming (ZGP) algorithm is based on an original representation for mathematical expressions, targeting evolutionary symbolic regression. The zoetropic representation uses repeated fusion operations between partial expressions, starting from the terminal set. Repeated fusions within an individual gradually generate more complex expressions, ending up in what can be viewed as new features. These features are then linearly combined to best fit the training data. ZGP individuals then undergo specific crossover and mutation operators, and selection takes place between parents and offspring. ZGP is validated using a large number of public domain regression datasets, and compared to other symbolic regression algorithms, as well as to traditional machine learning algorithms. ZGP reaches state-of-theart performance with respect to both types of algorithms, and demonstrates a low computational time compared to other symbolic regression approaches.

International audience; A novel framework called Graph Diffusion & PCA (GDPCA) is proposed in the context of semi-supervised learning on graph structured data. It combines a modified Principal Component Analysis with the classical supervised loss and Laplacian regularization, thus handling the case where the adjacency matrix is sparse and avoiding the curse of dimensionality. Our framework can be applied to non-graph datasets as well, such as images by constructing similarity graph. GDPCA improves node classification by enriching the local graph structure by node covariance. We demonstrate the performance of GDPCA in experiments on citation networks and images, and we show that GDPCA compares favourably with the best state-of-the-art algorithms and has significantly lower computational complexity.