Hi, I'm Łukasz! My goal is to design artificial intelligence that learns how to solve problems autonomously and in a self-improvement loop.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, a Senior Research Scientist at IDEAS NCBR, and a member of the ELLIS Society. I am also involved with Ingenix.ai. I received my PhD in mathematics from IMPAN and my MSc from the University of Warsaw. Prior to my current position, I led a Solvency 2 internal models team at the Polish Financial Supervision Authority

I'm looking for Ph.D. students! See IDEAS NCBR website for some PhD research topics.

e-mail: lukasz.kucinski at ideas-ncbr dot pl

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Selected publications

tsGT: Stochastic Time Series Modeling With Transformer

Łukasz Kuciński, Witold Drzewakowski, Mateusz Olko, Piotr Kozakowski, Łukasz Maziarka, Marta Emilia Nowakowska, Łukasz Kaiser, Piotr Miłoś

submitted, 2024

GUIDE: Guidance-based Incremental Learning with Diffusion Models

Bartosz Cywiński, Kamil Deja, Tomasz Trzciński, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Łukasz Kuciński

submitted, 2024

Fine-tuning Reinforcement Learning Models is Secretly a Forgetting Mitigation Problem

Maciej Wołczyk, Bartłomiej Cupiał, Mateusz Ostaszewski, Michał Bortkiewicz, Michał Zając, Razvan Pascanu, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

submitted, 2024

Structured Packing in LLM Training Improves Long Context Utilization

Konrad Staniszewski, Szymon Tworkowski, Yu Zhao, Sebastian Jaszczur, Henryk Michalewski, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

submitted, 2024

Magnushammer: A Transformer-based Approach to Premise Selection

Maciej Mikuła, Szymon Antoniak, Szymon Tworkowski, Bartosz Piotrowski, Albert Qiaochu Jiang, Jin Peng Zhou, Christian Szegedy, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś, Yuhuai Wu

ICLR 2024, top-50 average score 8.0

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Trust Your ∇: Gradient-based Intervention Targeting for Causal Discovery

Mateusz Olko, Michał Zając, Aleksandra Nowak, Nino Scherrer, Yashas Annadani, Stefan Bauer, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

NeurIPS 2023

Fast and Precise: Adjusting Planning Horizon with Adaptive Subgoal Search

Michał Zawalski, Michał Tyrolski, Konrad Czechowski, Damian Stachura, Piotr Piękos, Tomasz Odrzygóźdź, Yuhuai Wu, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

ICLR 2023, notable-top-5%

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Disentangling Transfer in Continual Reinforcement Learning

Maciej Wołczyk, Michał Zając, Razvan Pascanu, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

NeurIPS 2022

Continual World: A Robotic Benchmark For Continual Reinforcement Learning

Maciej Wołczyk, Michał Zając, Razvan Pascanu, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

NeurIPS 2021

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Subgoal Search For Complex Reasoning Tasks

Konrad Czechowski, Tomasz Odrzygóźdź, Marek Zbysiński, Michał Zawalski, Krzysztof Olejnik, Yuhuai Wu, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

NeurIPS 2021

Catalytic Role Of Noise And Necessity Of Inductive Biases In The Emergence Of Compositional Communication

Łukasz Kuciński, Tomasz Korbak, Paweł Kołodziej, Piotr Miłoś

NeurIPS 2021

Teaching: 

University of Warsaw: Reinforcement Learning, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.

University of Warsaw: Machine Learning Seminar, Fall 2021, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Summer 2023, Fall 2024, Summer 2024.