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Scientist @GoogleDeepMind and Fellow @EdinburghUni | RL, philosophy, AI, math, science | office hours: https://t.co/XrrHAXX9sx

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New #RLC2024 paper Three Dogmas of Reinforcement Learning joint w/ @mark_ho_ and @aharutyu!. We reflect on where our scientific paradigm needs adjustment, and suggest three departures from previous conventions. Curious to hear what folks think!. đź§µ
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Excited about this new work led by @jonathanrichens, joint with @alexis_bellot_ and @tom4everitt . Main result: Any agent that can solve a sufficiently rich set of goal-directed tasks must have learned a predictive model of the environment.
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Are world models a necessary ingredient for flexible, goal-directed behaviour, or is model-free learning sufficient? We provide a formal answer to this question, showing that any agent capable of...
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Are world models necessary to achieve human-level agents, or is there a model-free short-cut?.Our new #ICML2025 paper tackles this question from first principles, and finds a surprising answer, agents _are_ world models… 🧵
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RT @jonathanrichens: Are world models necessary to achieve human-level agents, or is there a model-free short-cut?.Our new #ICML2025 paper….
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RT @RLFrameWorkshop: 🖼️Reminder!! Finding the Frame will be held on August 5 at @RL_Conference at @UAlberta! . See you in Edmonton. 📰Submit….
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RT @RLFrameWorkshop: 🚨 Reminder! Submissions for @RL_Conference's Finding the Frame are due May 30 (AoE)!.We're looking for bold ideas that….
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RT @IasonGabriel: 🚨 Excited to share my new paper with @Dr_Atoosa “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance”. We identify four….
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RT @SamuelGarcin: paper: project page:
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RT @SamuelGarcin: Looking forward to presenting our study on representation learning for on-policy actor-critic algorithms in Singapore for….
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RT @RLFrameWorkshop: After last year's success, Finding the Frame is back at #RLC2025 🚀!.Do you want to rethink the conceptual foundations….
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RT @MingJin80233626: Ever wonder how extremely rare, high-risk black swan events can sneak up even when nothing changes?.In our #ICLR2025 p….
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RT @RLFrameWorkshop: ✨Recordings of Finding the Frame Workshop at @RL_Conference 2024 are now up on our website!✨.
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RT @RLDMDublin2025: Save the date! . RLDM 2025, The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is only ar….
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RT @CoLLAs_Conf: 📢 Exciting News! The Fourth Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2025) will be held at the University of Pennsyl….
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RT @theophaneweber: The team @jhamrick and I co-lead is hiring a research engineer. If you are interested in improving the capabilities of….
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RT @dhadfieldmenell: New conference on safe and ethical AI! Our goal is to convene a broad group of experts from academia, civil society, i….
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RT @jmac_ai: Reinforcement learning in #AI is hard, so I’ve made a website to collect answers I’ve given to common RL questions. It's name….
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RT @YuchenCui1: 🚀 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at the UCLA Robot Intelligence Lab! 🤖 If you are interested in robot learning….
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RT @steph_milani: 🎇 I’m on the academic job market! I’m a PhD candidate at @mldcmu. My research tackles challenges that arise from the seq….
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RT @tobyordoxford: I've just published a paper positing a new kind of fundamental physical law bounding the rate at which any physical quan….
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to….
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RT @RL_Conference: With one of our favorite talk titles, Finale Doshi-Velez told us about the ways her RL work is impacting medicine + how….
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