Machine Intelligence Lab

Welcome to the website of the Machine Intelligence Lab at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). We are part of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence and the Intelligent Systems Group.

What’s New

  • October 2025 Our paper “Heterogeneous Knowledge for Augmented Modular Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research The camera ready version of the paper will appear soon. In the meanwhile, you can download the paper here.

  • October 2025 We won the ACM UbiComp 10-Year Impact Award for our paper “Trajectories of Depression: Unobtrusive Monitoring of Depressive States by means of Smartphone Mobility Traces Analysis”. Our 2015 paper can be downloaded here.

  • October 2025 New preprint: “Opponent Shaping in LLM Agents”. You can download the paper here.

  • October 2025 New preprint: “A Generalized Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning”. You can download the paper here.

  • September 2025 New preprint: “Complexity-Driven Policy Optimization”. You can download the paper here.

  • August 2025 Our paper “Maynard Smith Revisited: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Coevolution of Signalling Behaviour” has been published in PLOS Computational Biology. You can download the paper here.

  • August 2025 Our paper “(Ir)rationality in AI: State of the Art, Research Challenges and Open Questions” has been published in Artificial Intelligence Review. You can download the paper here.

  • August 2025 Our paper “Feature Selection for Network Intrusion Detection” will be presented in the Research Track of the 31st ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD 2025). You can download the paper here.

  • May 2025 New preprint: “Reward Model Overoptimisation in Iterated RLHF”. You can download the paper here.

  • May 2025 Congratulations to Liza Tennant for successfully defending her thesis on “Moral Alignment of Agentic AI Systems”!

  • April 2025 Liza Tennant will present her work “Moral Alignment for LLM Agents” at 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025). You can download the paper here.

Previous news items can be found here.

Joining and Collaborating with the Lab

The lab welcomes applications from prospective PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research interns, and visiting scholars.

We are open to collaboration with academic, industry and government partners in our areas of expertise.

More details can be found here.



Last updated: 29 October 2025.