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2024

  • October 2024 Our paper “InterruptMe: Designing Intelligent Prompting Mechanisms for Pervasive Applications” has been awarded a Best Paper Runner-up Award in the 10-year Impact Awards category at ACM UbiComp 2024. You can find our UbiComp 2014 paper here.

  • September 2024 We won the Best Paper Award for the paper “MarcoPolo: A Zero-Permission Attack for Location Type Inference from the Magnetic Field Using Mobile Devices” at CANS 2024. You can download the paper here.

  • September 2024 New preprint: “Reinforcement Learning Discovers Efficient Decentralized Graph Path Search Strategies”. You can download the paper here.

  • August 2024 Our paper “Graph Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization: A Survey and Unifying Perspective” has been accepted for publication in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). The paper will appear soon, in the meantime you can download the preprint here.

  • August 2024 Our manifesto paper “Ecological Brain: Reframing the Study of Human Behaviour and Cognition” co-authored with the students of the first cohorts of our Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme for the Ecological Study of the Brain has been accepted for publication in Royal Society Society Open Science. The preprint of the paper is available here.

  • August 2024 Our paper “Dynamics of Moral Behavior in Heterogeneous Populations of Learning Agents” has been accepted in the Proceedings of the 7th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2024). You can find the preprint of the paper here.

  • July 2024 Our paper “Training Foundation Models as Data Compression: On Information, Model Weights and Copyright Law” will be presented at the 2nd Internation Workshop on Generative AI and Law (GenLaw 2024), colocated with the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), as spotlight presentation. You can download the paper here.

  • June 2024 New preprint: “Partial Information Decomposition for Data Interpretability and Feature Selection”. You can download the paper here.

  • June 2024 Our paper “(Ir)rationality and Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models” is now out in Royal Society Open Science. You can download the paper here.

  • June 2024 Our paper “Game-theoretic Agent-based Modelling of Micro-level Conflict: Evidence from the ISIS-Kurdish War” is now out in PLOS ONE. You can download the paper here.

  • June 2024 New preprint: “Large Language Models are Effective Priors for Causal Graph Discovery”. You can download the paper here.

  • June 2024 Our paper “Creative Beam Search: LLM-as-a-Judge for Improving Response Generation has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2024). You can download the paper here.

  • May 2024 Our paper “Trust-based Consensus in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems” has been accepted at the 1st Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC 2024). The camera ready version will be available soon. In the meantime, you can download the preprint here.

  • May 2024 Our paper “CoMIX: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Training Architecture for Efficient Decentralized Coordination and Independent Decision Making” has been accepted for publication in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). The paper will appear soon, in the meantime you can download the preprint here.

  • May 2024 Our paper “Creativity and Machine Learning: A Survey” has been accepted in ACM Computing Surveys. The paper will appear soon. In the meantime, you can download the preprint here.

  • April 2024 New preprint: “Graph Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization: A Survey and Unifying Perspective”. You can download the paper here.

  • April 2024 I gave an invited talk at the Machine+Behavior Conference 2024 at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.

  • April 2024 I gave an invited talk hosted by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki on 3 April 2024 as part of the event “AI generated it - who owns it?”.

  • March 2024 New preprint “Do Agents Dream of Electric Sheep?: Improving Generalization in Reinforcement Learning through Generative Learning”. You can download the preprint here.

  • March 2024 New preprint: “Dynamics of Moral Behavior in Heterogeneous Populations of Learning Agents”. You can download the preprint here.

  • January 2024 New preprint: “Information-Theoretic State Variable Selection for Reinforcement Learning”. You can download the preprint here.

  • January 2024 Our paper “Reinforcement Learning for Generative AI: State of the Art, Opportunities and Open Research Challenges” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). You can download the paper here.

  • January 2024 New preprint “Learning Machine Morality through Experience and Interaction”. You can download the preprint here.

  • January 2024 New preprint “(Ir)rationality in AI: State of the Art, Research Challenges and Open Questions”. You can download the preprint here.

2023

  • New preprint: “Tree Search in DAG Space with Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Causal Discovery”. You can download the preprint here.

  • New preprint: “Reinforcement Learning for Generative AI: State of the Art, Opportunities and Open Research Challenges”. You can download the preprint here.

  • New preprint: “CoMIX: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Training Architecture for Efficient Decentralized Coordination and Independent Decision Making”. You can download the preprint here.

  • New preprint: “Augmented Modular Reinforcement Learning based on Heterogeneous Knowledge” discussing a novel learning modular architecture based on reinforcement learning for processing and integrating multiple types of information (knowledge). You can download the article here.

  • Our paper “Modeling Moral Choices in Social Dilemmas with Multi-Agent Reinforcement” has been accepted for publication in the main research track of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023). You can download the preprint of the paper here.

  • New preprint: “On the Creativity of Large Language Models” discussing the problem of machine creativity in relation to LLMs. You can download the article here.

  • Our paper “CT-DQN: Control-Tutored Deep Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted for publication at the Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC 2023). You can download the pre-print version of the paper here. The camera ready version of the paper will appear soon.

  • Our paper “Planning Spatial Networks with Monte Carlo Tree Search” has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society A. You can download the paper here.

  • Our paper “RLQ: Workload Allocation with Reinforcement Learning in Distributed Queues” has been accepted for publications in IEEE Transactions in Parallel and Distributed Systems. You can download the paper here.

  • The applications for the UCL Foundational Artificial Intelligence PhD program for the September 2023 intake are now open. You can find all the information here.

  • I am currently advertising a Postdoctoral Fellow position in my lab. I am looking for candidates with expertise in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (with an interest in reinforcement learning and/or causal inference). Please do not hesitate to contact me for an informal discussion. Please apply here.

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Last updated: 24 November 2024.