Adrienne Tuynman

I am a PhD student in the Inria Scool team at CRIStAL, where I work under the supervision of Emilie Kaufmann and Rémy Degenne. Before that, I was a student at the ENS Paris-Saclay and the MVA Master’s program.

I am particularly interested in identification problems in Multi-Armed Bandits and Reinforcement Learning. I like to craft algorithms that work with small sample-size for pure exploration problems, and that match the information lower bound for them.

Beyond that, I enjoy learning about statistical testing, sequential testing, safe statistics, and more broadly machine learning.

Pre-publications

• Adrienne Tuynman, Rémy Degenne, Emilie Kaufmann (2024). Finding good policies in average-reward Markov Decision Processes without prior knowledge
• Adrienne Tuynman, Ronald Ortner (2022). Transfer in Reinforcement Learning via Regret Bounds for Learning Agents

News

• [December 2024] My paper about average-reward RL has been accepted at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver. See you there!
• [October 2024] I will be at the EWRL2024 in Toulouse to present my work on average-reward RL!
• [26-27 October 2023] I participated to the RJMI at the Inria center of Lille, introducing a group of highschool girls to the world of scientific research, and supervising them as they worked through an open mathematical problem.
• [October 2023] I started my PhD about fixed budget best arm identification with Emilie Kaufmann and Rémy Degenne at the Inria center of Lille in the Scool team.
• [Spring and summer 2023] I conducted my final Master’s internship with Emilie Kaufmann and Rémy Degenne at the Inria center of Lille in the Scool team about best policy identification in average reward RL.
• [September 2022] We presented our paper about transfer learning at EWRL 2022.
• [Spring and summer 2021] I conducted an internship with Ronald Ortner at the Montanuniversität Leoben about transfer learning in average reward RL.
• [Summer 2020] I conducted a month long internship with Philippe Preux at the Inria center of Lille in the SequeL team.

Teaching

Academic year 2024-2025

I am the TA for the “Bases mathématiques” course in the first semester again.

Academic year 2023-2024

I was the TA for the course “Bases mathématiques” in the first semester, and for the Cryptography course in the second semester for the mathematics Master’s of the Lille University