Past projects

The poker agent UGO learned No-Limit Texas Hold'em by playing thousands of hands against earlier versions of itself. Bluffing was never programmed in – it emerged on its own through reinforcement learning.

Simone Elia · Federico Hrvatin · Even Ytterli Tokle · Miheer Gautam · Daniel Meling

Deep learning that segments brain tumors from MRI scans – separating core, edema and enhancing regions to support diagnostics and treatment planning. AI where it actually matters.

Eldar Alvik · Muhammad H. Muwaffaq · Frida Kroken · Tobias Amundrud · Sofia Kamali

The workout partner that never loses count: IMU sensors and pose estimation recognize the exercise, count your reps automatically and give real-time feedback on your form.

Dennis Jevne · Vittorio Avellone · Jens Valderhaug · Gustav Natvig · Ivan Kochura · Henrik Øen

Chess engines in a duel: AlphaZero and DQN agents trained up and pitted against each other in a shared arena to see which approach wins.

Sverre Nystad · Ludvig Øvrevik · Jessica Liu · Vetle Støren · Håkon Støren · Kristian Flatval · Parleen Brar · Kristoffer Nohr Olaisen

An agentic AI system that predicts stock movements and makes recommendations – historical data, feature engineering and gradient boosting in practice.

Rasmus Jonssønn Skramstad · Anders Nikolai Holsen · Vegard Aa Albretsen · Aleksandar Mirkovic · Kristoffer Eide

Self-driving racing: IQN and DQN agents with tricks from the Rainbow and Beyond the Rainbow research, trained to set record lap times on TrackMania tracks.

Ludvig Øvrevik · Brage Kvamme · Edvard Klavenes · Henrik Øen · Simen Førdestrøm Verhoeven · Eldar Alvik · Kristoffer Seyffarth

Show the model a street view image from anywhere in the world, and it answers with coordinates. Deep learning trained to recognize vegetation, road signs and architecture – just like a GeoGuessr pro.

Daniel Neukirch Hansen · Jens Martin Norheim Berget · Magnus Bryne · Sondre Pettersen · Per Henrik Bergene Holm · Parleen Brar · Romeo Henriksen · Håkon Støren · Vetle Støren

The EU AI Act is hundreds of pages of legal text – RegulAId is the agentic assistant that navigates them for you. LLMs and agent technology applied to a problem the entire industry is wrestling with.

Serina Erzengin · Inês Trigueiro · Rasmus Skramstad · Vegard Aa Albretsen · Ingunn Tonetta Erdal

Vision models (BLIP-2) and LLMs in perfect harmony: upload a photo, get a tailor-made pickup line. The science of flirting, served by a vision transformer.

Jozef Kraus · Kristian Carlenius · Christopher

Cogito's official team in the Norwegian AI Championship: computer vision, reinforcement learning and MLOps under competition pressure – and Cogito members took both 1st and 2nd place.

Brage Kvamme · Sverre Nystad · Ludvig Øvrevik · Tobias Fremming · Afras Mansoor · Thomas Sørensen · Serina Serife Erzengin · Mina Al-Dolaimi · Maia Austigard · Jessica Liu

A robotic hand that obeys your muscles: EMG sensors read the signals from your forearm, the AI interprets your intention, and the hand grips. Mechanical design, embedded systems and machine learning in one project.

Tobias Fremming · Afras Mansoor · Even Ytterli Tokle

Cogito's own robot platform across several generations – firmware, hardware and autonomy built and rebuilt by new cohorts of members.

Christian Gynnild · Dennis Jevne

Cogito's exploration of audio and machine learning – signal processing and deep networks meet music.

Sharuca Elangarajah · Muhammad H. Muwaffaq · Nathania Muliawan · Sverre Nystad

A zbot robot learning to walk in simulation: reinforcement learning in JAX on GPU, from wobbly first steps to a stable gait.

Sebastian

The intro group that gives new members a taste of everything: from Git and ML fundamentals via Flappy Bird RL and an LLM chatbot to tumor segmentation on a supercomputer – all in a single semester.

Sveinung Myhre · Maia Austigard · Mina Al-Dolaimi · Kristian Flatval

The sequel where the agent isn't even told the rules: MuZero learns its own internal model of the environment and plans inside it. One of the toughest RL algorithms in existence – implemented by students.

Christian Fredrik Johnsen · Ludvig Øvrevik · Eirik Solberg · Kristian Carlenius · Brage Kvamme · Adi Singh · Nicolai André Olsen · Sverre Nystad

AR glasses that recognize the chessboard in front of you and beam grandmaster moves straight into your field of view. So easy it almost feels like cheating – because in a way, it is.

Simon Sandvik Lee · Vetle Støren · Håkon Støren · Alice Zheng · Jessica Liu

Real-time motion recognition and interaction, built in C# – your body as the controller.

Tobias Fremming · Maia Austigard · Parleen Brar

NEAT is neat! Neuroevolution that doesn't just train the network but breeds the architecture itself – and uses it to play Super Mario Bros.

Christian Fredrik Johnsen · Brage Kvamme · Kristian Carlenius · Ludvig Øvrevik · Kacper Pawlowski · Vetle · Håkon

Digital creatures learning to walk: agents in a 2D environment evolve body and brain through evolution, one stumbling generation at a time.

Jonas Korkosh · Mina Al-Dolaimi · Nathania Muliawan · Nils Henrik Hoelfeldt Lund · Parleen Brar · Sindre Fossdal · Skage Reistad · Tobias Fremming

From chaos to solved cube: CNNs read the cube, and a combination of graph search, Domino Reduction and classic solving algorithms finds the way home.

Eduard Prokhorikhin · Einride Osland · Even Ytterli Tokle · Gustav Natvig · Kien Le

Just A Rather Very Intelligent System: a voice-controlled AI assistant inspired by Iron Man, autonomously solving complex tasks in the background while you talk to it naturally.

Eldar Alvik · Igor Iwanicki · Jon Bergland · Konrad Seime · William M. Schmidt · Ivan Mordovets · Nils Henrik Hoelfeldt Lund · Erlend Skaarberg · Muhammad H. Muwaffaq

A content factory on autopilot: AI generates TikTok videos and publishes them itself – the entire pipeline from idea to uploaded video, with no human in the loop.

Henrik Kvamme · Andreas V. Jonsterhaug · Håvard Daleng

Cross-sell recommendations and dynamic pricing with embeddings, built together with Infor – the world's third largest provider of enterprise software. Real data, real customers, real value.

Daniel Neukirch Hansen · Thomas Sørensen · Jens Martin Norheim Berget · Bjørn Melaaen · Nikolai Helgås Helleseth · August Myhre · Vebjørn Kittelsen Bergh · Abdihakim Elmi

We took DeepMind's research paper and reimplemented AlphaZero from scratch – policy/value networks, self-play and tree search from the ground up. No off-the-shelf libraries, just papers and PyTorch.

Christian Fredrik Johnsen · Brage Kvamme · Ludvig Øvrevik · Kacper Pawlowski · Kristian Carlenius · Nils Henrik Lund · Haagen Mæland Moe

Evolution meets Tetris: heuristic agents bred generation by generation with genetic algorithms, until every piece falls exactly where it should.

Eduard Prokhorikhin · Henrik Haaland · Håvard Fossdal · Jon Bergland · Maia Austigard · Øystein Kvandal · Sindre Fossdal

Point your camera at a sudoku – done. Computer vision reads the board, classic AI search solves it, and the solution is overlaid on the image in real time as AR.

Andreas V. Jonsterhaug · Igor Iwanicki · Afras Mansoor · Lotta Helen Heed Jensen

From pure noise to photorealistic car images, step by step: a diffusion model built from scratch following state-of-the-art research – the same technology that powers Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

Marijan Soric · Thomas Haslund Wik · Mauritz Skogøy · Amanda Truyen · Baris Batur

A personal fitness coach you talk to: the LLM agent logs your workouts, analyzes your progress and builds plans toward your goals.

William M. Schmidt · Tryggve Klevstul-Jensen

Upload an entire textbook and get a personal tutor that knows the syllabus – and cites it. RAG, OCR and function calling in the full-stack app that is Cogito's most-starred repo on GitHub.

Henrik Halvorsen Kvamme · Kaamya Shinde · Kristoffer Nohr Olaisen · Olav Selnes Lorentzen · Parleen Brar · Simon Sandvik Lee · Skage Reistad · Sverre Nystad · Tobias Fremming

Type in a topic, get a finished poster or meme – image and text generated in one go. Prompt engineering, finetuning and image generation put into a system, long before everyone else did it.

Daniel Neukirch Hansen · Eduard Prokhorikhin · Håvard Fossdal · Jørgen Haugdal Jore · Kristoffer Nohr Olaisen · Olav Selnes Lorentzen · Sveinung Myhre · Sverre Nystad · Simon Sandvik Lee

Recommender systems meet CNNs: swipe through cats and let the model learn exactly what kind of cat is your perfect match.

Ulrik Røsby · Marijan Soric · Adi Singh

Medical image analysis with U-Net: segmentation and classification of real health data using convolutional neural networks – the architecture that revolutionized medical computer vision.

Vilhjalmur Arnar Vilhjalmsson · Sveinung Myhre · Erik Nymo Bohne · Ine Zhao

An NLP model that reads your text and suggests the emojis to match – language understanding in miniature. 🎯

Ulrik Røsby · Øystein Kvandal · Fredrik Marthin Hellevang

A world of artificial life and death: agents are born, compete, adapt and die in a simulated ecosystem.

Birk Stoveland · Jonathan Jørgensen · Øystein Kvandal · Albert Bayazidi

Generative art that breathes: a painting that lives, moves and never shows the same image twice.

Didrik Lindløv Sand · Espen Boman Fosseide · Ulrik Røsby · Hans Jakob Håland · Ann-Marie Revillard · Magnus Rasmussen · Martin Halleland

Deep Q-learning teaching itself Flappy Bird – pixels in, flapping out, one frustrating pipe gap at a time.

Sanne Jamila Olsen

From pixelated to sharp: deep learning that upscales images and reconstructs details that no longer exist in the original.

Jon Rodtang · Espen Boman Fosseide · Sindre Saastad · Ingeborg Malene Klemsdal · Julie Lervaag Breivik

AI that composes music – neural networks learning harmony and melody, creating entirely new pieces.

Theodor Forgaard · Espen Boman Fosseide · Ulrik Isdahl · Mats Ellingsen · Sanne Jamila Olsen

A tournament environment for AI agents inspired by Pommerman: build your bot, drop it into the arena and see if it survives the bombs.

Jonathan Jørgensen

Faces that never existed: the GAN architecture behind thispersondoesnotexist, explored and trained by Cogito members.

Tobias Christiani · Andreas Gravrok · Espen Boman Fosseide · Henrik Øberg Myhre

Fake news classification with machine learning – NLP applied to one of the internet's biggest problems, long before LLMs took over.

Espen Boman Fosseide · Birk Stoveland · Einar Sommerfeldt

Cogito's first encounter with the DeepMind classic: AlphaZero built up from self-play and Monte Carlo tree search, trained to master Tic-Tac-Toe and Connect Four – with zero human knowledge of the games.

Agnar Martin Bjørnstad · Andreas Gravrok · Ole Fredrik Borgundvåg Berg · Sebastian Aas · Tor Dyrdal Strande · Dilawar Mahmood

Conversational AI before ChatGPT existed: natural language understanding built with DialogFlow and Kotlin.

Simen Burud · Jakob Madsen · Silas Eic · Marius Torbjørnsen

What will you look like in 40 years? Deep networks that age faces – generative AI from the era when GANs were the hottest thing around.

Even Klemsdal · Adam Gaidi

Cogito's very own reinforcement learning framework – the foundation many of the later RL projects were built on.

Jonathan Jørgensen · Marius Landsverk · Kim Midtlid · Even Klemsdal