Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Contract with Algotech

Participants : Frédéric Alexandre, Ikram Chraibi Kaadoud, Nicolas Rougier, Thierry Viéville.

Algotech is a SME working in the domain of CADD software edition for electrical circuit diagram interpretation and design. Its activity is interesting for our team because they are also interested in the design, by learning, of perception (for diagram identification) and action aspects of loops (for diagram genesis) with the specificity of working at a small scale, considering the variety of items to be manipulated. This is consequently a very interesting benchmark for transfering our bio-inspired models to the domain of classical machine learning. Particularly, during the PhD of Ikram Chraibi Kaadoud (defended this year), we have worked on the extraction of implicit knowledge, from the learning of sequences, extracted from diagrams.

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.