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6 papers

cs.LG2026

MEMENTO: Memory-Guided Memetic Code-as-Policy Evolution

Alkis Sygkounas, Victor Aregbede, Amy Loutfi +1

Long-horizon embodied tasks require policies that execute many dependent actions before task success can be observed. Representing policies as executable control pro- grams (code-a…

cs.LG2026

Evolutionary Discovery of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms via Large Language Models

Alkis Sygkounas, Amy Loutfi, Andreas Persson

Reinforcement learning algorithms are defined by their learning update rules, which are typically hand-designed and fixed. We present an evolutionary framework for discovering rein…

cs.AI2026

COvolve: Adversarial Co-Evolution of Large-Language-Model-Generated Policies and Environments via Two-Player Zero-Sum Game

Alkis Sygkounas, Rishi Hazra, Andreas Persson +2

A central challenge in building continually improving agents is that training environments are typically static or manually constructed. This restricts continual learning and gener…

cs.CV2026

LAP: A Language-Aware Planning Model For Procedure Planning In Instructional Videos

Lei Shi, Victor Aregbede, Andreas Persson +3

Procedure planning requires a model to predict a sequence of actions that transform a start visual observation into a goal in instructional videos. While most existing methods rely…

cs.NE2025

REvolve: Reward Evolution with Large Language Models using Human Feedback

Rishi Hazra, Alkis Sygkounas, Andreas Persson +2

Designing effective reward functions is crucial to training reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. However, this design is non-trivial, even for domain experts, due to the subject…

cs.LG2025

Interactive Double Deep Q-network: Integrating Human Interventions and Evaluative Predictions in Reinforcement Learning of Autonomous Driving

Alkis Sygkounas, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Andreas Persson +2

Integrating human expertise with machine learning is crucial for applications demanding high accuracy and safety, such as autonomous driving. This study introduces Interactive Doub…