Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events: Organisation

• the 1st Reinforcement Learning Summer Scool, July 1-12, 2019, Villeneuve d'Ascq

• the 3rd Vigil workshop at NeurIPS 2019

Member of the Organizing Committees

• F. Strub, co-organizer of the workshop “Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL)” at NeurIPS 2019

• The whole SequeL team has organized RLSS

Scientific Events: Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Émilie Kaufmann: ALT

• Odalric-Ambrym Maillard: ICML, ECAI, SIF

• Philippe Preux: ECML, EGC, SFC

Reviewer

In 2019, we have reviewed submissions for: AI&Stats, NeurIPS, ALT, ICML, COLT, IJCAI, AAAI, CDC, ECAI

Journal

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Journal of Machine Learning Research

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

• The Annals of Statistics

• Bernoulli

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

• Machine Learning

• Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA

Invited Talks

• E. Kaufmann

  • “Beyond Classical Bandit Tools for Monte-Carlo Tree Search”, AAAI workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Games, Honolulu, Jan 2019

  • “New tools for Adaptive Testing and Applications to Bandit Problems”, Machine Learning and Optimization Working Group, Ecole des Ponts, Feb 2019

  • “Generalized Likelihood Ratios Tests applied to Sequential Decision Making”, Statistics Seminar, Agro ParisTech, Paris, May 2019

  • “Generalized Likelihood Ratios Tests applied to Sequential Decision Making”, Machine Learning Seminar, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, May 2019

  • “Quelques outils statistiques pour la prise de décision séquentielle”, Conférence plénière du GRETSI, Lille, Aug 2019

  • “Practical algorithm for multi-player bandits”, MAPLE workshop, Milan, Italy Sep 2019

  • “Practical algorithm for multi-player bandits”, Invited session of the Allerton Conference, Urbana-Champaign, USA Sep 2019

• Odalric-Ambrym Maillard:

  • “La prise de décision séquentielle au service de la société de demain”, Euratechnologie, Lille, Feb 2019

  • “Change of mean detection, non-asymptotic delay and aggregation”, 3rd non-stationary day, Institut Henry Poincaré, Paris, Mar 2019

  • “A tour of time-uniform concentration inequalities: Laplace, Peeling, Kernel”, Workshop on empirical Processes and Applications to Statistics, Besançon, May 2019

  • “A tour of time-uniform concentration inequalities: Laplace, Peeling, Kernel”, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jun 2019

  • “Reinforcement Learning: successes and promises”, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Nov 2019

• Philippe Preux:

  • A brief introduction to supervised learning and reinforcement learning, 1st humAIn seminar, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Feb 2019

  • “Sous le contrôle des bandits”, AFCE, June 2019

  • Explainability in machine learning, 3rd humAIn seminar, Lille, June 2019

  • “Learning to act”, ENS-Paris-Saclay, Conférence de rentrée, Sep 2019

  • “Apprentissage par renforcement : mythe et réalité”, FOOR, Tourcoing, Nov 2019

• Jill-Jênn Vie:

  • “IA, éducation et formation”, Hermès, Paris, Oct 2019

  • “JJ Vie's Factorization IV”, LaBRI, Bordeaux, Nov 2019

  • “Deep Learning for Anime & Manga”, Paris Open Source Summit, Dec 2019

  • “Deep Learning for Recommender Systems”, Université Cergy-Pontoise, Dec 2019

• R. Gautron, O-A. Maillard, Ph. Preux, “Reinforcement learning for crop-management: a sequential decision-making under uncertainty approach”, CGIAR convention, Hydebarad, India, Oct 2019

• Ph. Preux, M. Seurin, “L'IA, les données, ... et l'Homme dans tout ça ?”, congress “Les données et leurs usages dans les technologies du numérique”, Douai, Oct 2019

Scientific Expertise

• Émilie Kaufmann:

  • member of the hiring committee for an assistant professor in probability/statistics at Université Paris-Sud

• Odalric-Ambrym Maillard:

  • member of the hiring committee for CRCN at Inria Lille

• Philippe Preux:

  • member of the hiring committee for CRCN at Inria Rennes

  • member of the hiring committee for CRCN at Inria (national)

  • evaluation of submissions to ANRT (he also declined many such invitations due to lack of time, e.g. with ANR)

Research Administration

• Odalric-Ambrym Maillard is:

  • member of the CER at Inria Lille

• Philippe Preux is:

  • “délégué scientifique adjoint” of the Inria center in Lille

  • member of the Inria evaluation committee (CE)

  • member of the Inria internal scientific committee (COSI)

  • member of the scientific committee of CRIStAL until Jan 2019

  • the head of the “Data Intelligence” thematic group at CRIStAL until Jan 2019