Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning Lab
The RAIL Lab, established in 2014, is dedicated to conducting cutting-edge research in the field of artificially intelligent systems. With a focus on both fundamental and applied research, our vision is to serve as a prominent centre of excellence and a hub for AI activities in Africa. We aim to make significant contributions to the field of AI while also applying our findings to benefit society at large.
Latest Research
GameTraversalBenchmark: Evaluating Planning Abilities Of Large Language Models Through Traversing 2D Game Maps
Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated great success in generating and understanding natural language. While they have …
Compositional Instruction Following with Language Models and Reinforcement Learning
Combining reinforcement learning with language grounding is challenging as the agent needs to explore the environment while …
The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages
The disparity in the languages commonly studied in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is typically reflected by referring to languages …
Optimal Task Generalisation in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
While task generalisation is widely studied in the context of single-agent reinforcement learning (RL), little research exists in the …
ROSARL: Reward-Only Safe Reinforcement Learning
An important problem in reinforcement learning is designing agents that learn to solve tasks safely in an environment. A common …
Analysing the Effect of Latent Space Mutation Strategies for PCGML
Procedural Content Generation Via Machine Learning (PCGML), describes an evolving area of research, that incorporates the use of …