Hugo Cisneros

PhD Student

Centre de recherche Inria de Paris
2 rue Simone IFF
75012 Paris, France

Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3
160 00 Prague 6, Dejvice, Czech Republic

Short Bio

I am a third year PhD student at the Czech Institute for Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC, CTU in Prague), part of the Impact Project, and the Willow team, INRIA/ENS. I am conducting my PhD under the supervision of Tomas Mikolov (CIIRC, CTU in Prague) and Josef Sivic (CIIRC, Inria and ENS Paris). Previously, I got a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Vision, and Machine learning from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Before that, I got a Master’s degree in Engineering with a major in Computer Science at Mines ParisTech.

My research focuses on the development of unsupervised machine learning algorithms capable of innovation and adaptation. I study complex systems like cellular automata and open-ended evolution.

I am generally interested in the emergence and growth of complexity in dynamical systems and how this could lead to open-ended evolving systems. During the first two years of my PhD, I have studied cellular automata and their continuous extensions as they are general and simple yet capable of surprisingly complex emergent behaviors.

News

• Runner-up of the Minecraft Open-Endedness Challenge, the first open-ended evolution challenge organized at the GECCO 2021 conference competition track (See the blog post, the video and the code)

• July 2020 – Talk at Alife 2020, Montréal, Canada (virtual) for Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata (Video of the talk)

• Dec 2019 – Talk at IEEE Alife, SSCI 2019 in Xiamen, China – Best Student paper award for Evolving Structures in Complex Systems

Publications

H. Cisneros, J. Sivic T. Mikolov
Benchmarking Learning Efficiency in Deep Reservoir Computing

In Proceeding of the 1st Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), 2022.

Introduces a metric of learning efficiency for machine learning models and a benchmark of progressively more difficult language tasks.

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H. Cisneros, J. Sivic T. Mikolov
Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata

In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 2020.

Introduces novel reduction methods for processing large-scale complex systems. This enables discovering interesting patterns at multiple scales.

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H. Cisneros, J. Sivic T. Mikolov
Evolving Structures in Complex Systems

In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI, 2019.

Introduces a new metric of increasing complexity for cellular automata and other systems.

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 author={H. {Cisneros} and J. {Sivic} and T. {Mikolov}},
 booktitle={2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)},
 title={Evolving Structures in Complex Systems},
 year={2019},
 volume={},
 number={},
 pages={230-237},
 }

@article{doi:10.1162/isal_a_00277,
 author = {Cisneros, Hugo and Sivic, Josef and Mikolov, Tomas},
 title = {Visualizing computation in large-scale cellular automata},
 journal = {Artificial Life Conference Proceedings},
 volume = {},
 number = {32},
 pages = {239-247},
 year = {2020},
 doi = {10.1162/isal_a_00277},
 URL = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isal_a_00277},
 eprint = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isal_a_00277} ,
 }

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 author={H. {Cisneros} and J. {Sivic} and T. {Mikolov}},
 booktitle={2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)},
 title={Evolving Structures in Complex Systems},
 year={2019},
 volume={},
 number={},
 pages={230-237},
 }