Publications

List of papers I have worked on

I have also served as a reviewer for various journals, conferences and workshops as listed in the Academic Service section of my CV.

2026

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    Evolving Many Worlds: Towards Open-Ended Discovery in Petri Dish NCA via Population-Based Training
    Uljad Berdica*, Jakob Foerster, Frank Hutter, and 1 more author
    2026
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    When Do We Need LLMs? A Diagnostic for Language-Driven Bandits
    Uljad Berdica, Fernando Acero, Anton Ipsen, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05859, 2026
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    Procedural Generation of Algorithm Discovery Tasks in Machine Learning
    Alexander D. Goldie, Zilin Wang, Adrian Hayler, and 17 more authors
    2026
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    Model-Based Meta-Learning for Algorithm Discovery
    Theo Wolf, Alexander David Goldie, Jarek Luca Liesen, and 3 more authors
    In ICLR 2026 the 2nd Workshop on World Models: Understanding, Modelling and Scaling, 2026
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2025

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    A Clean Slate for Offline Reinforcement Learning
    Matthew T. Jackson*, Uljad Berdica*, Jarek Liesen*, and 2 more authors
    NeurIPS 2025 - Main Track Oral, 2025
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    Intent Factored Generation: Unleashing the Diversity in Your Language Model
    Eltayeb Ahmed*, Uljad Berdica*, Martha Elliott, and 2 more authors
    ICML 2025 - Exploration in AI Today Workshop, 2025
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    Asynchronous Quadrature-phase Undersampling Technique for Wide-frequency Impedance Measurement
    Soon-Jae Kweon, Uljad Berdica, Hyunwoo Park, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2025
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    SOReL and TOReL: Two Methods for Fully Offline Reinforcement Learning
    Mattie Fellows*, Clarisse Wibault*, Uljad Berdica, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.22442, 2025
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    Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale
    Bidipta Sarkar*, Mattie Fellows*, Juan Agustin Duque*, and 13 more authors
    2025
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    Toward Artificial Intelligence in Oncology and Cardiology: A Narrative Review of Systems, Challenges, and Opportunities
    Visar Vela, Ali Yasin Sonay, Perparim Limani, and 12 more authors
    Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2025
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    Building Forest Inventories with Autonomous Legged Robots–System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead
    Matı́as Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, Jonas Frey, and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.20315, 2025
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2024

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    Dare: The deep adaptive regulator for control of uncertain continuous-time systems
    Harrison Waldon, Fayçal Drissi, Yannick Limmer, and 3 more authors
    In ICML 2024 Workshop: Foundations of Reinforcement Learning and Control–Connections and Perspectives, 2024
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    Robust Offline Learning via Adversarial World Models
    Uljad Berdica, Kelvin Li, Michael Beukman, and 3 more authors
    In NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Open-World Agents, 2024
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    Reinforcement learning controllers for soft robots using learned environments
    Uljad Berdica, Matthew Jackson, Niccolò Enrico Veronese, and 2 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE 7th international conference on soft robotics (RoboSoft), 2024
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2021

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    Mobile 3d printing robot simulation with viscoelastic fluids
    Uljad Berdica*, Yuewei Fu*, Yuchen Liu*, and 2 more authors
    In 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
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