Search Results for author: Karim Beguir

Found 14 papers, 6 papers with code

Assessing Quality-Diversity Neuro-Evolution Algorithms Performance in Hard Exploration Problems

no code implementations24 Nov 2022 Felix Chalumeau, Thomas Pierrot, Valentin Macé, Arthur Flajolet, Karim Beguir, Antoine Cully, Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

Exploration is at the heart of several domains trying to solve control problems such as Reinforcement Learning and QD methods are promising candidates to overcome the challenges associated.

Evolutionary Algorithms

Fast Population-Based Reinforcement Learning on a Single Machine

no code implementations17 Jun 2022 Arthur Flajolet, Claire Bizon Monroc, Karim Beguir, Thomas Pierrot

Training populations of agents has demonstrated great promise in Reinforcement Learning for stabilizing training, improving exploration and asymptotic performance, and generating a diverse set of solutions.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Multi-Objective Quality Diversity Optimization

1 code implementation7 Feb 2022 Thomas Pierrot, Guillaume Richard, Karim Beguir, Antoine Cully

In this work, we consider the problem of Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization with multiple objectives.

Sample efficient Quality Diversity for neural continuous control

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Thomas Pierrot, Valentin Macé, Geoffrey Cideron, Nicolas Perrin, Karim Beguir, Olivier Sigaud

The QD part contributes structural biases by decoupling the search for diversity from the search for high return, resulting in efficient management of the exploration-exploitation trade-off.

Continuous Control Management +1

Designing a Prospective COVID-19 Therapeutic with Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations3 Dec 2020 Marcin J. Skwark, Nicolás López Carranza, Thomas Pierrot, Joe Phillips, Slim Said, Alexandre Laterre, Amine Kerkeni, Uğur Şahin, Karim Beguir

This suggests that combining leading protein design methods with modern deep reinforcement learning is a viable path for discovering a Covid-19 cure and may accelerate design of peptide-based therapeutics for other diseases.

Protein Design reinforcement-learning +1

Offline Reinforcement Learning Hands-On

no code implementations29 Nov 2020 Louis Monier, Jakub Kmec, Alexandre Laterre, Thomas Pierrot, Valentin Courgeau, Olivier Sigaud, Karim Beguir

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to turn large datasets into powerful decision-making engines without any online interactions with the environment.

Behavioural cloning Decision Making +3

Learning Compositional Neural Programs for Continuous Control

no code implementations27 Jul 2020 Thomas Pierrot, Nicolas Perrin, Feryal Behbahani, Alexandre Laterre, Olivier Sigaud, Karim Beguir, Nando de Freitas

Third, the self-models are harnessed to learn recursive compositional programs with multiple levels of abstraction.

Continuous Control

Diversity Policy Gradient for Sample Efficient Quality-Diversity Optimization

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Thomas Pierrot, Valentin Macé, Félix Chalumeau, Arthur Flajolet, Geoffrey Cideron, Karim Beguir, Antoine Cully, Olivier Sigaud, Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

This paper proposes a novel algorithm, QDPG, which combines the strength of Policy Gradient algorithms and Quality Diversity approaches to produce a collection of diverse and high-performing neural policies in continuous control environments.

Continuous Control Evolutionary Algorithms

Ranked Reward: Enabling Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization

2 code implementations4 Jul 2018 Alexandre Laterre, Yunguan Fu, Mohamed Khalil Jabri, Alain-Sam Cohen, David Kas, Karl Hajjar, Torbjorn S. Dahl, Amine Kerkeni, Karim Beguir

Results from applying the R2 algorithm to instances of a two-dimensional and three-dimensional bin packing problems show that it outperforms generic Monte Carlo tree search, heuristic algorithms and integer programming solvers.

Combinatorial Optimization reinforcement-learning +1

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