Maxime Meyer

Hi!

I am Maxime, a PhD Student at the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Singapore, under the guidance of Prof. Vincent Tan, and Prof. Caroline Chaux.

I am particularly interested in the theoretical properties of Transformers.

Publications

• Maxime Meyer*, Mario Michelessa*, Caroline Chaux, Vincent Y. F. Tan (2026). The Expressive Limits of Transformers..
• Maxime Meyer*, Hoang Duy Dang*, Yannis Montreuil*, Lai Xing Ng, Axel Carlier, Wei Tsang Ooi (2025). Online Learning-to-Defer with Varying Experts. Accepted to AISTATS 2026
• Maxime Meyer, Mario Michelessa, Caroline Chaux, Vincent Y. F. Tan (2025). Memory Limitations of Prompt Tuning in Transformers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00421.
• Maxime Meyer, Soumik Adhikary, Naixu Guo, Patrick Rebentrost (2025). Online Learning of Pure States is as Hard as Mixed States. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00823. Accepted to NeurIPS 2025

Talks and Posters

• AAAI MATH4AI Workshop, Talk, The Expressive Limits of Transformers, Singapore, Jan 2026.
• AAAI Doctorate Consortium, Talk, Memorization and Expressivity in Transformers: A Learning-Theoretic Perspective, Singapore, Jan 2026.
• TQC (Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography), Poster, Online Learning of Pure States is as Hard as Mixed States, Bangalore, Sep 2025.
• The Singapore-Bangalore "What is ...?" Workshop on Mathematics, Poster, Online Learning of Pure States is as Hard as Mixed States, Bangalore, Aug 2025.
• AQIS (Asian Quantum Information Science Conference), Poster, Online Learning of Pure States is as Hard as Mixed States, Hong Kong, Aug 2025.
• Centre for Quantum Technologies, NUS, Talk, On the sequential fat-shattering dimension of Quantum States, Singapore, Nov 2024.

Teaching

• DSA3102 Essential Data Analytics Tools: Convex Optimisation
• QF1100 Introduction to Quantitative Finance
• MA4235 Topics in Graph Theory
• MA1301 Introductory Mathematics
• MA1522 Linear Algebra for Computing

Students

• AY24/25: Dang Hoang Duy

Awards

• AISG PhD Fellowship Programme, 2026
• Department Graduate Teaching Award, 2025
• IPAL PhD Scholarship, 2025