AI Researcher. Opinions are my own.

Joined December 2019
Working on Interpretable Reinforcement Learning? Submit your work to our Special Issue on Applied Soft Computing! Submission: Dec 31, 2025 Final Decision: June 1, 2026 Details & submission: sciencedirect.com/special-is… #reinforcementlearning #interpretability #xai
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Leonardo Lucio Custode retweeted
🎉 Our work "SMOSE: Sparse Mixture of Shallow Experts for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control Tasks" has been accepted by AAAI 2025! #AAAI2025 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.13053 with @L_Ferrarotti, @brulepri, @gih82 🧵1/6
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Happy to share that we won the Interpretable Control Competition @ #GECCO24 ! Congrats @vinczematyas_ @L_Ferrarotti @gih82 @brulepri
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Our @GeccoConf papers are finally out! Multi-Objective Evolutionary Hindsight Experience Replay for Robotics doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654… Decentralized Federated NeuroEvolution of Heterogeneous Networks doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654… Neuron-centric Hebbian Learning doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654…
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Excited to share that we got four papers accepted @ GECCO 2024! Here's a brief recap of our papers!
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In "An investigation on the use of Large Language Models for hyperparameter tuning in Evolutionary Algorithms" (w/ @ayaman00, @facaraff , @gih82 ), we investigate the capabilities of LLMs in tuning hyperparameters in evolution strategies. 4/5
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In "Comparing Large Language Models and Grammatical Evolution for Code Generation" (w/ @ChiaraRambaldi , Marco Roveri, @gih82), we compare LLMs and evolutionary techniques in code generation tasks. 5/5
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I am happy to share our recent paper on quality-diversity #optimization of #decisiontrees for #reinforcementlearning tasks. This approach can be useful to achieve #interpretability and #explainableai. #MachineLearning #xAI @andrea_ferigo @LLCustode doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-0…
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New paper out! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… We propose an evolutionary computation method for interpretable multi-agent reinforcement learning tasks. @LLCustode @andrea_ferigo and Marco Crespi. #XAI #MachineLearning
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Have you ever wondered what's so special about the graph structure of Sparse Neural Networks? We present a new graph encoding to study the topological features of SNNs and how they correlate with performance. arxiv.org/abs/2305.16886 #deeplearning @CunegattiElia @doina_net
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Leonardo Lucio Custode retweeted
Also this year, my lab is one of the possible hosts for the SPECIES scholarships for visiting PhD students. More info at: species-society.org/scholars… #MachineLearning #visiting #phd #research #artificalintelligence #evolutionarycomputation
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Leonardo Lucio Custode retweeted
I'm super-proud of @LLCustode! He is the first PhD graduate (cum laude!) in my group at @UniTrento @UniTrento_DISI . Thanks @doina_net @jaumebp and Libertario Demi (@ULTRaTrento) for your participation to the defense and for the wonderful discussion. Ad maiora!
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Interested in Interpretable or Explainable Reinforcement Learning? In our latest published article, @gih82 and I present a method to perform Reinforcement Learning with Decision Trees, matching the state of the art in several benchmarks. Check it out: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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Leonardo Lucio Custode retweeted
This paper presents a method using #MachineLearning for automatic COVID-19 patient-stratification based on standardised lung #ultrasound data: doi.org/10.1121/2.0001600 @LLCustode @gih82 @ULTRaTrento #acoustics
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Leonardo Lucio Custode retweeted
I'm looking for candidates for 5 PhD positions and one postdoc, on various topics related to (distributed) machine learning, numerical optimization, evolutionary robotics and quantum computing. Contact me if interested. #phdposition #postdocposition #acad…lnkd.in/e49D2h4b
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