Chris Lu
I am a second-year DPhil student at the University of Oxford, where I am
advised by Professor Jakob
Foerster at FLAIR. My work focuses on applying
evolution-inspired techniques to meta-learning and multi-agent
reinforcement learning. In the summer of 2022 I interned at DeepMind as a research scientist.
Previously, I worked as a researcher at Covariant.ai.
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News
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(04/2023) I released a blog post on PureJaxRL, a JAX-based RL library that
massively speeds up RL training!
- (03/2023) I gave talks on evolutionary meta-learning at the UMD
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Reading Group, the AI4ABM Reading Group, and the Learning in Foundation
Environments (LIFE) Reading Group!
- (09/2022) We received a GoodAI
grant, which I co-wrote on behalf of the lab
- (07/2022) I gave in-person talks on three of our papers at the main conference and several
workshops at ICML 2022 in Baltimore!
[Model-Free Opponent Shaping, Discovered Policy Optimisation, and Adversarial Cheap Talk]
- (06/2022) I started an internship at DeepMind as a
Research Scientist on the Discovery Team!
- (05/2022) We received an Oracle for Research Grant, which I co-wrote on behalf of the lab
- (10/2021) I started my DPhil at Oxford with FLAIR
Blog Posts
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Publications (representative papers are highlighted)
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Structured State Space Models for In-Context Reinforcement Learning
Chris Lu, Yannick Schroecker, Albert Gu, Emilio Parisotto, Jakob Foerster, Satinder Singh,
Feryal Behbahani
NeurIPS 2023
Also at the Workshop on New Frontiers in Learning, Control, and Dynamical Systems @ ICML
2023
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Discovering General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Adversarial Environment Design
Matthew Thomas Jackson, Minqi Jiang, Jack Parker-Holder, Risto Vuorio, Chris Lu, Gregory
Farquhar, Shimon Whiteson, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
NeurIPS 2023
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Adversarial Cheap Talk
Chris Lu, Timon Willi, Alistair Letcher, Jakob Foerster
ICML 2023
Also at the Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity @ ICML 2022 (Spotlight)
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Discovering Attention-Based Genetic Algorithms via Meta-Black-Box Optimization
Robert Tjarko Lange, Tom Schaul, Yutian Chen, Chris Lu, Tom Zahavy, Valentin Dallibard,
Sebastian Flennerhag
GECCO 2023
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Arbitrary Order Meta-Learning with Simple Population-Based Evolution
Chris Lu, Sebastian Towers, Jakob Foerster
ALIFE 2023 (Oral)
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Discovering Evolution Strategies via Meta-Black-Box Optimization
Robert Tjarko Lange, Tom Schaul, Yutian Chen, Tom Zahavy, Valentin Dallibard, Chris Lu,
Satinder Singh, Sebastian Flennerhag
ICLR 2023
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Discovered Policy Optimisation
Chris Lu*, Jakub Grudzien Kuba*, Alistair Letcher, Luke Metz, Christian Schroeder de Witt,
Jakob Foerster
*Equal Contribution
NeurIPS 2022
Also at the Decision Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Workshop @ ICML 2022
(Spotlight)
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Proximal Learning With Opponent-Learning Awareness
Stephen Zhao, Chris Lu, Roger Baker Grosse, Jakob Foerster
NeurIPS 2022
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Model-Free Opponent Shaping
Chris Lu, Timon Willi, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Jakob Foerster
ICML 2022 (Spotlight)
Also at the ICLR 2022 Workshop on Gamification and Multiagent Solutions (Spotlight)
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Centralized Model and Exploration Policy for Multi-Agent RL
Qizhen Zhang, Chris Lu, Animesh Garg, Jakob Foerster
AAMAS 2022 (Oral Presentation)
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Learning to Control Self-Assembling Morphologies
Deepak Pathak*, Chris Lu*, Trevor Darrell, Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros
*Equal Contribution
NeurIPS 2019 (Spotlight)
Winner of Virtual Creatures Competition (link)
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Preprints and Workshop Papers
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Analyzing the Sample Complexity of Model-Free Opponent Shaping
Kitty Fung, Qizhen Zhang, Chris Lu, Timon Willi, Jakob Foerster
ICML 2023 Workshop on New Frontiers in Learning, Control, and Dynamical Systems
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ReLU to the Rescue: Improve Your On-Policy Actor-Critic with Positive Advantages
Andrew Jesson, Chris Lu, Gunshi Gupta, Angelos Filos, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Yarin Gal
arXiv Preprint
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Scaling Opponent Shaping to High Dimensional Games
Akbir Khan*, Timon Willi*, Newton Kwan*, Andrea Tachetti, Chris Lu, Edward Grefenstette, Tim
Rocktäschel, Jakob Foerster
*Equal Contribution
Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop at AAMAS 2023
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JAX-LOB: A GPU-Accelerated limit order book simulator to unlock large scale reinforcement
learning for trading
Sascha Frey*, Kang Li*, Peer Nagy*, Silvia Sapora, Chris Lu, Stefan Zohren, Jakob Foerster,
Anisoara Calinescu
*Equal Contribution
arXiv Preprint
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Misc
- Reviewer for: NeurIPS 2021, ICLR 2022, IROS 2022, NeurIPS 2022, NeurIPS 2023, ALOE@ICLR2022,
DARL@ICML2022, AI4ABM@ICML2022, F4LCD@ICML2023
- In my free time I like to work on side projects. I used to sell kalimbas. I
also solo-developed and sold a video game.
- I also created the Noisy TV environment that appears in a few papers on curiosity-driven
learning. The code is here.
- If you want to see some of my older works and projects, my old website is here.
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