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