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NEW! Call for research engineer position

Generative AI agentic architectures for educational technologies

NEW! Internship positions for 2026 (topics will be progressively added  until beginning of December)

SOAR-Agents: Self-Improving Language Models for Agentic Architectures and Evolutionary Search (superv. Julien Pourcel, Cédric Colas, PY Oudeyer)

Learning Self-Representation for Curiosity-driven Deep Reinforcement Learning (superv. Loris Gaven, PY Oudeyer)

Modeling of Student Learning Dynamics using LLMs (superv. Loris Gaven, PY Oudeyer)

Data-Driven Analysis of Learning Dynamics of Students in Educational Platforms (superv. Olivier Clerc, PY Oudeyer)

Controller Program Generation for solving various Environments through LLM-based Agents (superv. Timothe Boulet, Clement Moulin-Frier, Xavier Hinault)

Curiosity-driven automated discovery of interference patterns in multi-core architectures (superv. Ludovic Matar, Clement Moulin-Frier) 

Designing and Running Human Collective Intelligence Experiments (superv. C. Colas, J. Perez, E. Nisioti)

Interactive Online Cultural Evolution of Artificial Life Patterns (superv. Marko Cvjetko, Jeremy Perez, Clement Moulin-Frier, PY Oudeyer)

Emergence, control and open-ended evolution in cellular automata (superv. Marko Cvjetko, Clement Moulin-Frier, PY Oudeyer)

General call for postdoc application: we are searching for postdoc applicants in domains including curiosity-driven autotelic learning, LLMs + DeepRL, LLMs that learn to code or to do maths, AI for education, cognitive sciences related to modeling and understanding curiosity-driven learning in humans. Contact Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (see instructions above)  

Internship positions for 2025
Note: they have all been attributed, but if you would be interested in an internship for the academic year sept. 2025-summer 2026, they give an idea of the topics we are currently investigating, and you can send a prospective application. As we receive many applications, we cannot guarantee unfortunately we will respond to all.

LLM-Mediated Cultural Evolution: Studying AI Catalysts in Collective Problem-Solving (supervision C. Colas, E. Nisioti, PY Oudeyer)

Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Autotelic Reinforcement Learning (supervision C. Romac, C. Colas, PY Oudeyer)

Curriculum learning of skill libraries in autotelic agents using LLMs and program synthesis (supervision J. Pourcel and PY Oudeyer)

Curiosity-driven automated discovery of interference patterns in multi-core architectures (supervision P.Y. Oudeyer and C. Moulin-Frier)

Gene-regulated multicellular morphogenesis and behavior (supervision C. Moulin-Frier)

Evolving large populations of adaptive neural agents in ecologically plausible environments (supervision C. Moulin-Frier)

(Engineering internship) Developing and benchmarking a library for LLMs in embodied agents (supervision C. Romac, D. Dutartre, T. Carta)

We are searching for internship applications for a cool project combining continuous cellular automata (Lenia), machine learning and language (but no precise description available here, send us an email :)) ! For this one, email Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (and using [application] in object/header of email).

Internship hosted at ENS Paris, associated to a collaboration with Yair Lakrez and Emmanuel Chemla:
Human-Like Language Acquisition in Language Models (LMs): a Parent-LM Teaching an Intrinsically-Motivated baby-LM

Expérimentation et évaluation d’une intervention pédagogique pour l’entrainement de la curiosité et de la méta-cognition

Evaluation de l’impact d’une intervention pédagogique sur l’usage de l’IA générative au collège