Niko A. Grupen

Head of Applied Research, Harvey

I am the Head of Applied Research at Harvey. Previously, I was a multi-agent RL researcher at Google Brain, a PhD in Computer Science at Cornell University, (advised by Bart Selman and Daniel Lee), and a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple.

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Dissertation

• Responsible Emergent Multi-Agent Behavior
  Cornell University

Articles & Book Chapters

• AlphaFold, GPT-3 and How to Augment Intelligence with AI (Part 1)
  Future by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
• AlphaFold, GPT-3 and How to Augment Intelligence with AI (Part 2)
  Future by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
• From Author to Editor: Our Place Alongside the New Life Cycle of Text
  Future of Text by Frode A. Hegland (Foreword by Vint G. Cerf)
• Why Embodied Intelligence Needs "Skin in the Game"
  Technical Report, December 2019

Patents

• US10733982 | Multi-directional Dialog

Publications

• Policy-Value Alignment and Robustness in Search-based Multi-Agent Learning
  Niko A. Grupen, Michael Hanlon, Alexis Hao, Daniel D. Lee, Bart Selman; Preprint 2023
• Concept-based Understanding of Emergent Multi-Agent Behavior
  Niko A. Grupen, Natasha Jaques, Been Kim, Shayegan Omidshafiei; Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning; NeurIPS 2022
• Collective Obfuscation and Crowdsourcing
  Benjamin Laufer, Niko A. Grupen; Workshop on Disinformation Countermeasures and Machine Learning, ICML 2022
• Cooperative Multi-Agent Fairness and Equivariant Policies
  Niko A. Grupen, Bart Selman, Daniel D. Lee; AAAI 2022 (15% acceptance)
• Multi-Agent Curricula and Emergent Implicit Signaling
  Niko A. Grupen, Daniel D. Lee, Bart Selman; AAMAS 2022
• Unsupervised Feature Learning for Manipulation with Contrastive Domain Randomization
  Carmel Rabinovitz, Niko A. Grupen, Aviv Tamar; ICRA 2021
• Low-Bandwidth Communication Emerges Naturally in Multi-Agent Learning Systems
  Niko A. Grupen, Daniel D. Lee, Bart Selman; Workshop on Zero-Shot Emergent Communication, NeurIPS 2020
• Visual Primitives for Abductive Reasoning
  Niko A. Grupen, Ross Knepper; Workshop on Combining Learning and Reasoning, RSS 2019
• An iBeacon Primer for Indoor Localization
  Paul Martin, Bo-Jhang Ho, Niko A. Grupen, Samuel Munoz, Mani Srivastava; ACM BuildSys, 2014
• Bayesian UFO: Abductive Visual Reasoning over Intuitive Physical Concepts
  N. Grupen, Technical Report, Cornell University, May 2019