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most citedWinner Takes It All: Training Performant RL Populations for Combinatorial Optimization

6 citations · 20 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2026

ALF: An Active Learning Framework for Scientific Discovery

Shikha Surana, Alex Hawkins-Hooker, Olivia Gallup +3

Machine learning for scientific discovery is almost systematically data bound. Producing relevant high quality data, under budget constraints, is amongst the most promising ways to…

cs.AI2026

How to Spend Your Oracle Budget: Practical Guidance for Protein Structure Prediction Models

Aleksandra Kalisz, Jack Simons, Krisztina Sinkovics +4

Foundation models for protein structure prediction remain unreliable on certain targets. External oracles can flag and correct these failures, but biological oracles are expensive,…

cs.LG2026

Force-Aware Neural Tangent Kernels for Scalable and Robust Active Learning of MLIPs

Eszter Varga-Umbrich, Zachary Weller-Davies, Paul Duckworth +3

Active learning for machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) must address several challenges to be practical: scaling to large candidate pools, leveraging energy-force super…

cs.LG2026

Pretrained Model Representations as Acquisition Signals for Active Learning of MLIPs

Eszter Varga-Umbrich, Shikha Surana, Paul Duckworth +3

Training machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for reactive chemistry is often bottlenecked by the high cost of quantum chemical labels and the scarcity of transition sta…

stat.ML2025

Sample-Efficient Optimisation over the Outputs of Generative Models

Samuel Willis, Paul Duckworth, Jack Simons +10

Modern generative AI models, such as diffusion and flow matching models, can sample from rich data distributions. However, many applications, especially in science and engineering,…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Overconfident Oracles: Limitations of In Silico Sequence Design Benchmarking

Shikha Surana, Nathan Grinsztajn, Timothy Atkinson +2

Machine learning methods can automate the in silico design of biological sequences, aiming to reduce costs and accelerate medical research. Given the limited access to wet labs, in…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Metalic: Meta-Learning In-Context with Protein Language Models

Jacob Beck, Shikha Surana, Manus McAuliffe +4

Predicting the biophysical and functional properties of proteins is essential for in silico protein design. Machine learning has emerged as a promising technique for such predictio…

cs.NE2024★ 5 cited

Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity for Crystal Structure Prediction

Hannah Janmohamed, Marta Wolinska, Shikha Surana +3

Crystal structures are indispensable across various domains, from batteries to solar cells, and extensive research has been dedicated to predicting their properties based on their…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Combinatorial Optimization with Policy Adaptation using Latent Space Search

Felix Chalumeau, Shikha Surana, Clement Bonnet +4

Combinatorial Optimization underpins many real-world applications and yet, designing performant algorithms to solve these complex, typically NP-hard, problems remains a significant…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Jumanji: a Diverse Suite of Scalable Reinforcement Learning Environments in JAX

Clément Bonnet, Daniel Luo, Donal Byrne +21

Open-source reinforcement learning (RL) environments have played a crucial role in driving progress in the development of AI algorithms. In modern RL research, there is a need for…

cs.NE2022

Efficient Learning of Locomotion Skills through the Discovery of Diverse Environmental Trajectory Generator Priors

Shikha Surana, Bryan Lim, Antoine Cully

Data-driven learning based methods have recently been particularly successful at learning robust locomotion controllers for a variety of unstructured terrains. Prior work has shown…

cs.AI2022★ 6 cited

Winner Takes It All: Training Performant RL Populations for Combinatorial Optimization

Nathan Grinsztajn, Daniel Furelos-Blanco, Shikha Surana +2

Applying reinforcement learning (RL) to combinatorial optimization problems is attractive as it removes the need for expert knowledge or pre-solved instances. However, it is unreal…