Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Contract with CEA Cesta

Participants : Frédéric Alexandre, Guillaume Padiolleau.

In the context of the PhD of Guillaume Padiolleau, we are working with the CEA on possible interactions between model-based and model-free approaches of reinforcement learning, based on cognitive consideration. Particularly, to decrease the complexity of exploration of a large data space in model-free approaches, we aim at considering introducing a priori knowledge coming from a model and we also propose to consider motivation as another way to orient the search in the learning space. This is applied in the robotic domain to manipulations by a robotic arm.

Contract with Ubisoft

Participants : Frédéric Alexandre, Pramod Kaushik.

Together with the Inria Project-team Flowers, we are working with the video game editor Ubisoft to define original bio-inspired learning methods, to qualify the behavior of human players observed during runs of games. Such learning algorithms will be specifically considered in the PhD of Pramod Kaushik.