Publications


SAAC: Safe Reinforcement Learning as an Adversarial Game of Actor-Critics.
Under Review, 2021.


Adversarially Guided Actor-Critic.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.

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Learning Value Functions in Deep Policy Gradients using Residual Variance.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.

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Only Relevant Information Matters: Filtering Out Noisy Samples to Boost RL.
29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020.

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Temperature Decreases Spread Parameters of the New Covid-19 Case Dynamics.
Biology, 9(5), p.94, 2020.

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MERL: Multi-Head Reinforcement Learning.
Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, NeurIPS, 2019.

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High-Dimensional Control Using Generalized Auxiliary Tasks.
Research Report hal-02295705, 2019.

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The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.
The Gradient, 2019.

Article


Hearables in Hearing Care: Discovering Usage Patterns Through IoT Devices.
International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, 2017.

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Invited Talks

Efficient Actor-Critics under the Prism of Variance
July, 2021
UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab
Adversarially Guided Actor-Critic
February, 2021
DeepMind
Slides
Learning Value Functions using Residual Variance in Deep Policy Gradients
October, 2020
DeepMind
Slides
Oral & Panel Discussion: Do we control the algorithms we create?
November, 2019
Open Forum Art and Research
Improving Policy Gradient Updates with MERL and SAUNA
October, 2019
Inria Seminars (SequeL)
Deep Reinforcement Learning at Scale
April, 2019
HPC - BigData Inria Project Lab
QA and Deep Learning for Language Understanding
November, 2017
Machine Learning Meetup

Selected Software

rlberry

A Reinforcement Learning Library for Research and Education (PyTorch)

adversarially-guided-actor-critic

AGAC: Adversarially Guided Actor-Critic (TensorFlow)

actor-with-variance-estimated-critic

AVEC: Actor with Variance Estimated Critic (TensorFlow)

rlss-2019

Materials for the Reinforcement Learning Summer School 2019: Bandits, RL & Deep RL (PyTorch)

Teaching

Reinforcement Learning - Fall 2019 - MVA - ENS Paris-Saclay

Teaching Assistant
Instructors: Alessandro Lazaric, Matteo Pirotta

Reinforcement Learning Summer School 2019

Teaching Assistant
Instructors: Felix Berkenkamp, Tristan Cazenave, Ludovic Denoyer, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Audrey Durand, Vincent François-Lavet, Matteo Hessel, Emilie Kaufmann, Marc Lanctot, Max Lapan, Alessandro Lazaric, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard, Jérémie Mary, Gerhard Neumann, Guillaume Obozinski, Olivier Pietquin, Bilal Piot, Matteo Pirotta, Bruno Scherrer, Florian Strub, Eleni Vasilaki, Oriol Vinyals

Professional Experience

 
 
 
 
 
November 2017 – October 2018
Nantes, FR

Machine Learning Engineer

iAdvize

Designed and executed product-focused research agendas, which led to building a conversational model for human/machine interface using deep learning.
 
 
 
 
 
August 2017 – November 2017
Copenhagen, DK

Research Assistant

DTU

Research work at DTU Compute laboratory focusing on deep convolutional neural network models for image classification and generative adversarial network models for image generation from a mixture of human artworks and photographs.
 
 
 
 
 
March 2017 – August 2017
Copenhagen, DK

Machine Learning Researcher

Soply (part-time during MSc)

Defined with the co-founders a roadmap for ML projects in the company, which led to building a system to recommend artists according to their photographic style and three artworks classification models (content, style & type) in collaboration with the National Gallery of Denmark.
 
 
 
 
 
November 2015 – January 2017
Copenhagen, DK

Machine Learning Engineer

EasyTranslate (part-time during MSc)

Several research projects in collaboration with the product team including a seq2seq machine translation model for specialized text and a recommendation system for human translators using LDA models trained on Wikipedia, deployed on AWS.

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Projects, Summer Schools, etc.

Reviewer Services ➞ NeurIPS, ICLR, JMLR & IJCAI
Participated ➞ Machine Learning Summer School

2019 - London, UK

Organization Committee & TA ➞ Reinforcement Learning Summer School

Code for RLSS | 2019 - Lille, France

Collaboration with Artist Thomas Depas ➞ Princess of Parallelograms

Exhibition pictures | 2019 - Lille, France