Joelle Pineau
CO-MANAGING DIRECTOR | MONTREAL, CANADA
Joelle is Vice President, AI Research at Meta and a Professor at McGill University. Her research focuses primarily on developing new models and algorithms for planning and learning in complex, partially observable domains. Joelle also applies these algorithms to robotics, health care, games, and conversational agents. She serves on the board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Joelle holds a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MSc and Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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March 11, 2024
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
PIECEWISE LINEAR PARAMETRIZATION OF POLICIES: TOWARDS INTERPRETABLE DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Maxime Wabartha, Joelle Pineau
March 11, 2024
December 01, 2022
NLP
CORE MACHINE LEARNING
The Curious Case of Absolute Position Embeddings
Koustuv Sinha, Adina Williams, Dieuwke Hupkes, Joelle Pineau, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Siva Reddy
December 01, 2022
February 27, 2022
Improving Reproducibility in Machine Learning Research
Joelle Pineau, Koustuv Sinha, Alina Beygelzimer, Emily Fox, Florence d'Alché-Buc, Hugo Larochelle, Philippe Vincent-Lamarre, Vincent Larivière
February 27, 2022
September 23, 2021
Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little
Koustuv Sinha, Adina Williams, Dieuwke Hupkes, Douwe Kiela, Joelle Pineau, Robin Jia
September 23, 2021
November 10, 2020
RESEARCH
ML APPLICATIONS
Adversarial Soft Advantage Fitting: Imitation Learning without Policy Optimization
Joelle Pineau, Christopher Pal, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Julien Roy, Paul Barde, Wonseok Jeon
November 10, 2020
June 25, 2020
RESEARCH
NLP
Learning an Unreferenced Metric for Online Dialogue Evaluation
Koustuv Sinha, Joelle Pineau, Jasmine Wang, Prasanna Parthasarathi, Ryan Lowe, William L Hamilton
June 25, 2020
May 08, 2020
RESEARCH
Plan2vec: Unsupervised Representation Learning by Latent Plans
Roberto Calandra, Amy Zhang, Ari Morcos, Joelle Pineau, Ge Yang, Pieter Abbeel
May 08, 2020
April 26, 2020
RESEARCH
On the interaction between supervision and self-play in emergent communication
Douwe Kiela, Jakob Foerster, Joelle Pineau, Abhinav Gupta, Ryan Lowe
April 26, 2020
December 12, 2019
GRAPHICS
The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2)
Emily Dinan, Alexander Miller, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jack Urbanek, Jason Weston, Joelle Pineau, Kurt Shuster, Ryan Lowe, Alan W Black , Alexander Rudnicky, Iulian Servan , Jason Williams, Mikhail Burtsev, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Valentin Malykh, Varvara Logacheva, Yoshua Bengio
December 12, 2019
November 05, 2019
RESEARCH
NLP
CLUTRR: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Inductive Reasoning from Text
Koustuv Sinha, Joelle Pineau, Will Hamilton, Jin Dong, Shagun Sodhani
November 05, 2019
May 15, 2019
RESEARCH
Streaming kernel regression with provably adaptive mean, variance, and regularization
Joelle Pineau, Audrey Durand, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard
May 15, 2019
February 05, 2019
RESEARCH
Where Did My Optimum Go?: An Empirical Analysis of Gradient Descent Optimization in Policy Gradient Methods
Joshua Romoff, Joelle Pineau, Peter Henderson
February 05, 2019
January 29, 2019
RESEARCH
Reward Estimation for Variance Reduction in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Joshua Romoff, Joelle Pineau, Alexandre Piche, Peter Henderson, Vincent Francois-Lavet
January 29, 2019
December 03, 2018
Temporal Regularization for Markov Decision Process
Joelle Pineau, Audrey Durand, Doina Precup, Pierre Thodoroff
December 03, 2018
October 31, 2018
CONVERSATIONAL AI
RESEARCH
Extending Neural Generative Conversational Model using External Knowledge Sources
Joelle Pineau, Prasanna Parthasarathi
October 31, 2018
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