Luca Grillotti

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Hello! I’m Luca Grillotti, a PhD student at the Adaptive and Intelligent Robotics Lab (AIRL) of Imperial College London under the supervision of Dr Antoine Cully.

My research focuses on how to use Quality-Diversity and Reinforcement Learning algorithms to learn collections of diverse robot skills in an unsupervised manner without simulation models. This poster summarises the research conducted during my first months of PhD.

Additionally, I actively contribute to several open-source Quality-Diversity projects, such as QDax and Kheperax. Beyond coding, I co-organize the Imperial College Autonomous Learning and Reasoning (ICARL) monthly seminar series, where researchers in the field are invited to present their work on campus.

As a Teaching Scholar for the Department of Computing, I’ve made substantial contributions to education at Imperial College London. For example, I gave several PyTorch lectures, designed the corresponding lecture notes, and taught half of a Computational Techniques module. I hold a Postgraduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching (PGCert ULT), with specialized training in approaches to teaching and digital learning.

Selected Publications

  1. Quality-Diversity Actor-Critic: Learning High-Performing and Diverse Behaviors via Value and Successor Features Critics
    Luca Grillotti*Maxence Faldor*Borja González León, and 1 more author
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024
  2. Don’t Bet on Luck Alone: Enhancing Behavioral Reproducibility of Quality-Diversity Solutions in Uncertain Domains
    Luca Grillotti*Manon Flageat*Bryan Lim, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2023
  3. Kheperax: a Lightweight JAX-based Robot Control Environment for Benchmarking Quality-Diversity Algorithms
    Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    In GECCO Workshop on Quality Diversity Algorithm Benchmarks, 2023
  4. IEEE TEVC
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    Unsupervised Behavior Discovery With Quality-Diversity Optimization
    Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2022
  5. Relevance-guided Unsupervised Discovery of Abilities with Quality-Diversity Algorithms
    Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2022