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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
58
Citations
13075
World Ranking
3640
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer is affiliated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in France. Their research primarily belongs to the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence. Contributions span related subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cultural Studies, Computer Science Applications, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Topic Modeling, Language and Cultural Evolution, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Cellular Automata and Applications, and Speech and Dialogue Systems.

Frequent publication venues for Pierre-Yves Oudeyer are as follows:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Oudeyer include:

  • Autotelic Agents with Intrinsically Motivated Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning: A Short Survey, 2022, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Grounding Large Language Models in Interactive Environments with Online Reinforcement Learning, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Language and culture internalization for human-like autotelic AI, 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Editorial: Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning in Autonomous Robots, 2020, Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • Causal Reinforcement Learning using Observational and Interventional Data, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pierre-Yves Oudeyer include:

  • Clément Moulin-Frier
  • Cédric Colas
  • Grgur Kovač
  • Rémy Portelas
  • Clément Romac

In addition to research articles, Oudeyer has contributed to academic books, notably publishing with Cambridge University Press. One such publication is The Drive for Knowledge, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development

    P.-Y. Oudeyer;F. Kaplan;V.V. Hafner

  • What is Intrinsic Motivation? A Typology of Computational Approaches.

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Frederic Kaplan

  • Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms

    Jacqueline Gottlieb;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Manuel Lopes;Manuel Lopes;Adrien Baranes

  • Active learning of inverse models with intrinsically motivated goal exploration in robots

    Adrien Baranes;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity.

    Jacqueline Gottlieb;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and learning: Theory and applications in educational technologies.

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Jacqueline Gottlieb;Manuel Lopes

  • The self-organization of speech sounds

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • Intrinsically Motivated Goal Exploration Processes with Automatic Curriculum Learning

    Sébastien Forestier;Yoan Mollard;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • How Evolution May Work Through Curiosity-Driven Developmental Process

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Linda B. Smith

  • Self-Organization In The Evolution Of Speech

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • Exploration in Model-based Reinforcement Learning by Empirically Estimating Learning Progress

    Manuel Lopes;Tobias Lang;Marc Toussaint;Pierre-yves Oudeyer

  • In search of the neural circuits of intrinsic motivation

    Frederic Kaplan;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • Robotic clicker training

    Frédéric Kaplan;Pierre Yves Oudeyer;Enikö Kubinyi;Adám Miklósi

  • R-IAC: Robust Intrinsically Motivated Exploration and Active Learning

    A. Baranes;P.-Y. Oudeyer

  • Eye movements reveal epistemic curiosity in human observers.

    Adrien Baranes;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Jacqueline Gottlieb

  • How can we define intrinsic motivation

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Frederic Kaplan

  • Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity: a source of Self-Development

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • The Playground Experiment: Task-Independent Development of a Curious Robot

    Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Verena V. Hafner;Andrew Whyte

  • The effects of task difficulty, novelty and the size of the search space on intrinsically motivated exploration.

    Adrien F. Baranes;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Jacqueline Gottlieb

  • Multi-Armed Bandits for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

    Benjamin Clement;Didier Roy;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Manuel Lopes

  • Automatic Curriculum Learning For Deep RL: A Short Survey

    Rémy Portelas;Cédric Colas;Lilian Weng;Katja Hofmann

  • CURIOUS: Intrinsically Motivated Modular Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning

    Cédric Colas;Pierre Fournier;Olivier Sigaud;Mohamed Chetouani

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Kaplan
Frédéric Kaplan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Manuel Lopes
Manuel Lopes Instituto Superior Técnico
Olivier Sigaud
Olivier Sigaud Sorbonne University
Freek Stulp
Freek Stulp German Aerospace Center
Jacqueline Gottlieb
Jacqueline Gottlieb Columbia University
Mohamed Chetouani
Mohamed Chetouani Sorbonne University
Fabien Lotte
Fabien Lotte French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Vittorio Loreto
Vittorio Loreto Sapienza University of Rome
Albert Ali Salah
Albert Ali Salah Utrecht University

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