Kaushik
Subramanian

Publications

Discovering Creative Behaviours through DUPLEX: Diverse Universal Features for Policy Exploration

NeurIPS, 2024
Borja G. Leon*, Francesco Riccio, Kaushik Subramanian, Peter R. Wurman, Peter Stone

The ability to approach the same problem from different angles is a cornerstone of human intelligence that leads to robust solutions and effective adaptation to problem variations. In contrast, current RL methodologies tend to lead to poli- cies that settle on a single solut…

A Super-human Vision-based Reinforcement Learning Agent for Autonomous Racing in Gran Turismo

RLC, 2024
Miguel Vasco*, Takuma Seno, Kenta Kawamoto, Kaushik Subramanian, Pete Wurman, Peter Stone

Racing autonomous cars faster than the best human drivers has been a longstanding grand challenge for the fields of Artificial Intelligence and robotics. Recently, an end-to-end deep reinforcement learning agent met this challenge in a high-fidelity racing simulator, Gran Tu…

Outracing Champion Gran Turismo Drivers with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Nature, 2022
Pete Wurman, Samuel Barrett, Kenta Kawamoto, James MacGlashan, Kaushik Subramanian, Thomas Walsh, Roberto Capobianco, Alisa Devlic, Franziska Eckert, Florian Fuchs, Leilani Gilpin, Piyush Khandelwal, Varun Kompella, Hao Chih Lin, Patrick MacAlpine, Declan Oller, Takuma Seno, Craig Sherstan, Michael D. Thomure, Houmehr Aghabozorgi, Leon Barrett, Rory Douglas, Dion Whitehead Amago, Peter Dürr, Peter Stone, Michael Spranger, Hiroaki Kitano

Many potential applications of artificial intelligence involve making real-time decisions in physical systems while interacting with humans. Automobile racing represents an extreme example of these conditions; drivers must execute complex tactical manoeuvres to pass or block…

Blog

August 10, 2024 | Game AI

Sony AI at the Reinforcement Learning Conference 2024

Sony AI will be participating in the Reinforcement Learning (RL) Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, from August 9 to 12, 2024 where we will be joining some of the brightest minds in the field—and we are honored to be a part of …

Sony AI will be participating in the Reinforcement Learning (RL) Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, from August 9 to 12, 2024 w…

January 11, 2024 | GT Sophy | Game AI

From Hypothesis to Reality: The GT Sophy Team Explains the Evolution of the Breakthrough AI Agent

Since its inception in 2020, Sony AI has been committed to enhancing human imagination and creativity through the acceleration of AI research and development. One of the first examples of this work can be found within the organiza…

Since its inception in 2020, Sony AI has been committed to enhancing human imagination and creativity through the acceleration of …

October 4, 2022 | GT Sophy | Game AI

The Race to Turn a World-class AI into a World Champion 

GT SOPHY TECHNICAL SERIES Starting in 2020, the research and engineering team at Sony AI set out to do something that had never been done before: create an AI agent that could beat the best drivers in the world at the PlayStation®…

GT SOPHY TECHNICAL SERIES Starting in 2020, the research and engineering team at Sony AI set out to do something that had never be…

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