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Olivier Francon
Collaborator
Oliver is a senior director of evolutionary AI at Cognizant. He has a Master of Science degree from EPITA, Paris, in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Publications
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Optimizing Chlorination in Water Distribution Systems via Surrogate-assisted Neuroevolution Rivaaj Monsia, Daniel Young, Olivier Francon, Risto Miikkulainen To Appear In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2026. 2026
Efficient Pre-Training of LLMs through Truncated SVD Layers. Kaivan Kamali, Kajetan Schweighofer, Hormoz Shahrzad, Olivier Francon, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulai... arXiv:2605.28573, 2026. 2026
Discovering Effective Policies for Land-Use Planning with Neuroevolution Daniel Young, Olivier Francon, Elliot Meyerson, Clemens Schwingshackl, Jacob Bieker, Hugo Cunha, Bab... Environmental Data Science, 4:e30, 2025. 2025
Optimizing the Design of an Artificial Pancreas to Improve Diabetes Management Ashok Khanna, Olivier Francon, and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the IJCAI workshop on Advanced Neural Systems for Next-Generation Biomedical In... 2025
Leveraging Evolutionary Surrogate-Assisted Prescription in Multi-Objective Chlorination Control Systems Rivaaj Monsia, Olivier Francon, Daniel Young, Risto Miikkulainen arXiv:2508.19173, 2025. 2025
NeuroSAN+NeuroAI: AI-assisted Decision-making through a Synergy of Technologies Risto Miikkulainen, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Babak Hodjat, Noravee Kanchanavatee, Elliot Meyerson,... Technical Report 2025-01, Cognizant AI Lab, San Francisco, CA, 2025. 2025
Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors Elliot Meyerson, Giuseppe Paolo, Roberto Dailey, Hormoz Shahrzad, Olivier Francon, Conor F. Hayes, X... arXiv:2511.09030, 2025. 2025
Unlocking the Potential of Global Human Expertise Elliot Meyerson, Olivier Francon, Darren Sargent, Babak Hodjat, and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)... 2024
Pandemic Resilience: Case studies of an AI-calibrated ensemble of models to inform decision making GPAI Technical Report, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, November 2024. 2024
Evolving Deep Neural Networks Risto Miikkulainen, Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Aditya Rawal, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Bala Raju... To Appear In R. Kozma, C. Alippi, Y. Choe, and F. Morabito, editors, Artificial Intelligence in t... 2023
Pandemic Resilience: Developing an AI-calibrated Ensemble of Models to Inform Decision Making GPAI Technical Report, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, December 2023. 2023
From Prediction to Prescription: Evolutionary Optimization of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in the COVID-19 Pandemic Risto Miikkulainen, Olivier Francon, Elliot Meyerson, Xin Qiu, Darren Sargent, Elisa Canzani, Babak ... IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 25:386-401, 2021. 2021
Effective Reinforcement Learning through Evolutionary Surrogate-Assisted Prescription Olivier Francon, Santiago Gonzalez, Babak Hodjat, Elliot Meyerson, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu, Horm... In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2020), 2020. 2020
Evolving Deep Neural Networks Risto Miikkulainen, Jason Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Aditya Rawal, Dan Fink, Olivier Francon, Bala Raju... In Robert Kozma, Cesare Alippi, Yoonsuck Choe, and Francesco Carlo Morabito, editors, Artificial ... 2019
Areas of Interest
Supervised Learning Evolutionary Computation Neuroevolution Multiobjective Optimization Game Playing
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