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Research and development

We publish our papers, models and data so that anyone can check, reproduce and improve on them.

Mosaic of six images from TW3 research: a talk by André-Louis Rochet, CU-1 results on WebClick, the GIFT-Eval ranking of TW3Cast, a training day, a panel, the comparison of Flantier v1 and v2
André-Louis Rochet at ICAI-IP (Hanoi, December 2025) and at the MALT panel; a team training day. Results: CU-1 on WebClick (racineai/UI-DETR-1 Hugging Face model card), TW3Cast on the public GIFT-Eval leaderboard (14 September 2026), Flantier v1 and v2 on the team's Energy benchmark.

Latest result · September 2026

TW3Cast, 3rd out of 130 on the GIFT-Eval benchmark

For each series to be forecast, TW3Cast picks the best suited of three open models (Chronos-2, TiRex, Toto). The code and selection rules are public.

Nathan Thierry, André-Louis Rochet

Mean MASE rank of the 130 entries on the GIFT-Eval leaderboard, with TW3Cast in 3rd place
Ranking by mean forecast error (MASE rank) of the 130 systems evaluated. Source: public GIFT-Eval leaderboard as of 14 September 2026; code on GitHub.

Research programme

Our research areas

  • Interface agents

    4 topics

    Our agents locate the elements on a screen to click and type in place of a person, including in software with no API.

  • Time-series forecasting

    5 topics

    We adapt large open models to forecasting, energy production in particular, and test them on data they have never seen.

  • Document understanding

    12 topics

    Our models treat each page as an image, diagrams, tables, scans and manuscripts included, and find the right page among thousands.

  • Visibility in AI engines

    13 topics

    We study how AI engines choose the sources they cite, and have published a content score whose resistance to manipulation we measure.

  • Multi-agent systems

    26 topics

    We work on how teams of agents cooperate in production, and on checking what an agent claims to have done.

  • Document production agents

    11 topics

    We study where agents that write reports, spreadsheets and presentations go wrong, and how to measure the quality of what they deliver.

  • Model safety

    11 topics

    We train small guardrail models that an organisation can host and control itself.

  • Model specialisation

    12 topics

    We specialise open models so that a small model is enough for a specific task: query routing, reinforcement learning, domain adaptation.

  • AI for education

    4 topics

    We measure what an assistant grounded in the institution's own courses adds over a general-purpose model, and design tutors that guide students without giving them the answer.

  • Office software in the browser

    5 topics

    We rebuild in the browser the layout of a word processor and the functions of a spreadsheet, and measure how close we come to Word and Excel.

Publications

Papers and publications

Publications, technical articles and reuses by other teams, each with its link.

Models and datasets

Open models and datasets

Downloaded over 1.4 million times on Hugging Face.

Source: Hugging Face API. downloadsAllTime total (1,491,436) across the paloalma and racineai organisations as of 19 September 2026; per-repository counters as of 12 September 2026. Updated quarterly.

All public repositories, with their downloads
RepositoryTypeDownloads
paloalma/Le_Triomphant-ECE-TW3Merged language model308,343
paloalma/TW3-JRGL-v2Merged language model305,887
paloalma/ECE-TW3-JRGL-V1Merged language model178,481
paloalma/ECE-TW3-JRGL-V5Merged language model154,288
paloalma/ECE-TW3-JRGL-V3Merged language model24,202
paloalma/ECE-TW3-JRGL-V4Merged language model21,164
paloalma/ECE-TW3-JRGL-V2Merged language model18,802
racineai/UI-DETR-1Interface detector (CU-1)961
racineai/QwenAmann-4B-dseDocument embeddings367
racineai/Flantier2-SmolVLM-2B-dseDocument embeddings173
racineai/Flantier-SmolVLM-500M-dseDocument embeddings88
racineai/Flantier-SmolVLM-2B-dseDocument embeddings44
racineai/Flantier-Nuclear-Reglementation-1Document embeddings34
racineai/RacineCast-1Time series forecasting0
racineai/VDR_MEGA_MultiDomain_DocRetrievalDataset105,752
racineai/VDR_MEGA_2Dataset25,650
racineai/VDR_EnergyDataset19,592
racineai/VDR_QuantumDataset14,186
racineai/VDR_2_vdr-visRAG-colpaliDataset11,400
racineai/VDR_Renewable_RegulationDataset10,408
racineai/VDR_GeotechnieDataset10,215
racineai/VDR_History_GeographyDataset9,945
racineai/VDR_NuclearDataset9,766
racineai/VDR_QualitativeDataset9,607
racineai/VDR_colpali-VisRAG-vdrDataset9,473
racineai/VDR_Cooking_RecipesDataset8,120
racineai/VDR_ibm-research_REAL-MM-RAGDataset8,058
racineai/VDR_CATIE-AQ_XMRecDataset7,522
racineai/VDR_HydrogenDataset7,446
racineai/VDR_Quantum_Circuit_PapersDataset3,028
racineai/VDR_Energy_ArabicDataset2,620
racineai/ocr-pdf-degradedDataset2,381
paloalma/Reasoning-DeepSeek-R1-Distilled-1.4MDataset2,328
paloalma/Reasoning-DeepSeek-R1-Distilled-1.4M-Alpaca-V2Dataset1,808
racineai/VDR_Quantum_Circuit_SyntheticDataset1,752

Hugging Face downloads, cumulative counters as of September 12, 2026. The 1.4 million total covers all public repositories, some of which do not appear in this list.

Our research subsidiary

Racine.ai

Racine.ai is the R&D subsidiary of TW3 Partners, holding the Bpifrance Deeptech label. It also works for the defense sector.

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Co-authors
Our papers are co-authored with ECE, the LISV laboratory (Paris-Saclay University) and Sorbonne Université.
Training platform
Our training runs on RacineLab, our internal fine-tuning platform on a GPU cluster.

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