Alain Franc

Senior researcher

Inrae Bordeaux, BioGeCo, in a join team Pleiade with Inria Bordeaux

Research interests

  • Pattern discovery in biodiversity through barcoding and metabarcoding
  • Linear Dimension Reduction
  • Low rank approximations of tensors in data analysis
  • Statistical modeling
  • Community Ecology

Selected publications

  • Tensor calculus and dimension reduction

Franc, A, – 1992 – Etude algébrique des multi-tableaux : apport de l’algèbre tensorielle, PhD thesis, university of Montpellier, pp. 362, HAL tel-02574527,

Franc A, – 2022 – Tensor Ranks for the Pedestrian for Dimension Reduction and Disentangling Interactions, Inria & Inrae Research report 9445, pp. 205, hal-03518107, arXiv:2201.07473v1

Franc, A, – 2022 – Linear Dimensionality Reduction, Inria & Inrae Research Report 9498, pp. 69 ;
hal-03784623v2, arXiv:2209.13597v1

  • Diversity patterns in biodiversity and Metabarcoding

Blanchard, P. , Chaumail, P., Frigerio, J,-M., Rimet, F., Salin, F., Thérond, S., Coulaud, O., and Franc, A. – 2018 – A geometric view of Biodiversity : scaling to metagenomics, Inria & Inrae Research Report, pp. 16 – hal-01685711v2, arXiv:1803.02272v1

Abouabdallah, M.-A., Peyrard, N. and Franc, A, – 2022 – Does clustering of DNA barcodes agree with botanical classification directly at high taxonomic levels? Trees in French Guiana as a case study, Molecular Ecology Resources, DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13579 ; hal-03546609v1

  • Statistical Modeling

Peyrard, N., Cros, M.-J., de Givry, S., Franc, A., Robin, S., Sabbadin, R., Schiex, T., and Vignes, M. – 2019 – Exact or approximate inference in graphical models: why the choice is dictated by the treewidth, and how variable elimination can be exploited, Aust. N. Z. J. Stat. 2019, doi: 10.1111/anzs.12257, arXiv:1506.08544v2

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