Grgur Kovač

Conferences:

• Grgur Kovač*, Jérémy Perez*, Rémy Portelas, Peter Ford Dominey, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer. 2025. Recursive Training Loops in LLMs: How training data properties modulate distribution shift in generated data? In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)
• Grgur Kovač, Rémy Portelas, Masataka Sawayama, Peter Ford Dominey, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (2024b). ‘Stick to your Role! Stability of Personal Values Expressed in Large Language Models’. In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 46 (CogSci 2024)
• Jérémy Perez, Grgur Kovač, Corentin Léger, Cédric Colas, Gaia Molinaro, Maxime Derex, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, and Clément Moulin-Frier (2025). ‘When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings’. In: The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)

Journals:

• Grgur Kovač, Rémy Portelas, Masataka Sawayama, Peter Ford Dominey, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Aug. 2024a). ‘Stick to your role! Stability of personal values expressed in large language models’. In: PLOS ONE 19.8
• Grgur Kovač, Rémy Portelas, Peter Ford Dominey, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (2024). ‘The SocialAI school: a framework leveraging developmental psychology toward artificial socio-cultural agents’. In: Frontiers in Neurorobotics Volume 18 - 2024
• Grgur Kovač, Adrien Laversanne-Finot, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (2022). ‘Grimgep: learning progress for robust goal sampling in visual deep reinforcement learning’. In: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 15.3

Preprints:

• Grgur Kovač, Masataka Sawayama, Rémy Portelas, Cédric Colas, Peter Ford Dominey, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (2023). ‘Large language models as superpositions of cultural perspectives’. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07870

Workshops:

• Grgur Kovač*, Rémy Portelas*, Katja Hofmann, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (June 2021). ‘SocialAI 0.1: Towards a Benchmark to Stimulate Research on Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents’. In: NAACL. Accepted at NAACL ViGIL Workshop 2021. Mexico City, Mexico (Spotlight)
• Grgur Kovač, Rémy Portelas, Peter Ford Dominey, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (July 2023). ‘The SocialAI School: Insights from Developmental Psychology Towards Artificial Socio-Cultural Agents’. In: TOM 2023 -First Workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents - ICML 2023 Workshop. Honolulu (Hawaii), United States
• Guillaume Pourcel, Thomas Carta, Grgur Kovač, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (2024). ‘Autotelic LLM-based exploration for goal-conditioned RL’. In: Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2024

* equal contribution