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.

Joelle's Work

Joelle's Publications

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 Nicolaus 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