--- title: "Lucas Willems — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Lucas Willems: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2023), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lucas Willems # Lucas Willems Lucas Willems has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2023; often with [Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxime-chevalier-boisvert/), [Salem Lahlou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salem-lahlou/), [Chitwan Saharia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chitwan-saharia/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5031004793) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5031004793) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031004793) · [164 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031004793&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 81 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7484](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/75/#star-7484) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Lucas+Willems) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lucas+Willems) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lucas+Willems) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lucas+Willems) ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[BabyAI: A Platform to Study the Sample Efficiency of Grounded Language Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chevalier-boisvert-2018-babyai-platform-study-sample-efficiency/)** *(2018 · 123 citations)* Training agents to follow language instructions with a human in the loop could make AI assistants easier to customize. 2. **[Minigrid & Miniworld: Modular & Customizable Reinforcement Learning Environments for Goal-Oriented Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chevalier-boisvert-2023-minigrid-miniworld-modular-customizable-reinforcement/)** *(2023 · 25 citations)* Popular RL benchmark suites such as Gym and dm_control mostly test motor control or visual perception. They are poorly suited to studying goal-directed reasoning or instruction following, and adding new objectives to them is hard. The authors present Minigrid, a collection of 2D GridWorld tasks, and Miniworld, a set… ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxime-chevalier-boisvert/) ×2 - [Salem Lahlou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salem-lahlou/) ×2 - [Chitwan Saharia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chitwan-saharia/) - [Dzmitry Bahdanau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dzmitry-bahdanau/) - [Jordan Terry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordan-terry/) - [Mark Towers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-towers/) - [Pablo Samuel Castro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pablo-samuel-castro/) - [Thien Huu Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thien-huu-nguyen/) - [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 81 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-willems/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026