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David Abel

@dabelcs

Scientist @GoogleDeepMind and Fellow @EdinburghUni | RL, philosophy, AI, math, science | office hours: tinyurl.com/dabel-mtg

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RL_Conference (@rl_conference) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With one of our favorite talk titles, Finale Doshi-Velez told us about the ways her RL work is impacting medicine + how assuming human involvement leads to new algorithms (Link below)

With one of our favorite talk titles, Finale Doshi-Velez told us about the ways her RL work is impacting medicine + how assuming human involvement leads to new algorithms
(Link below)
The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
Toby Ord (@tobyordoxford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've just published a paper positing a new kind of fundamental physical law bounding the rate at which any physical quantity can grow or converge. 1/🧵

I've just published a paper positing a new kind of fundamental physical law bounding the rate at which any physical quantity can grow or converge.
1/🧵
Stephanie Milani (@steph_milani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🎇 I’m on the academic job market! I’m a PhD candidate at Machine Learning Dept. at Carnegie Mellon. My research tackles challenges that arise from the sequential nature of human-AI interaction. Toward this goal, my work involves: 🤖 reinforcement learning, 🧠 foundation models, and 👩‍💻 human-centered AI.

🎇 I’m on the academic job market! I’m a PhD candidate at <a href="/mldcmu/">Machine Learning Dept. at Carnegie Mellon</a>.

My research tackles challenges that arise from the sequential nature of human-AI interaction.  Toward this goal, my work involves:
🤖 reinforcement learning, 
🧠 foundation models, and 
👩‍💻 human-centered AI.
Yuchen Cui (@yuchencui1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚀 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at the UCLA Robot Intelligence Lab! 🤖 If you are interested in robot learning and human-robot interaction, mark me as a potential adivisor when you apply to the UCLA CS PhD program! #PhD #Robotics UCLA CS Department

🚀 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at the UCLA Robot Intelligence Lab! 🤖 If you are interested in robot learning and human-robot interaction, mark me as a potential adivisor when you apply to the UCLA CS PhD program!  #PhD #Robotics <a href="/CS_UCLA/">UCLA CS Department</a>
James (@jmac_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reinforcement learning in #AI is hard, so I’ve made a website to collect answers I’ve given to common RL questions. It's named Decisions & Dragons. It’s launching with 8 questions and answers, but I will add to it in the future. A 🧵to give a preview with the link below.

Reinforcement learning in #AI is hard, so I’ve made a website to collect answers I’ve given to common RL questions.

It's named Decisions &amp; Dragons. It’s launching with 8 questions and answers, but I will add to it in the future.

A 🧵to give a preview with the link below.
Dylan HadfieldMenell (@dhadfieldmenell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New conference on safe and ethical AI! Our goal is to convene a broad group of experts from academia, civil society, industry, media, and governments to discuss the latest developments in AI safety and ethics. Please apply here by Nov 24: iaseai.org/conference/app…

Theo Weber (@theophaneweber) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The team @jhamrick and I co-lead is hiring a research engineer. If you are interested in improving the capabilities of LLMs in the planning and reasoning space, and building generally capable agents, please apply! boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/…

RLDM (@rldmdublin2025) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Save the date! RLDM 2025, The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is only around the corner. Visit our website to keep an eye on our submission deadlines👀 rldm.org

Save the date! 

RLDM 2025, The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is only around the corner. Visit our website to keep an eye on our submission deadlines👀

rldm.org
CoLLAs 2025 (@collas_conf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Exciting News! The Fourth Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2025) will be held at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia, USA 🇺🇸 🗓️ Important Dates: Abstract Deadline: Feb 21, 2025 Submission Deadline: Feb 26, 2025 Conference Dates: Aug 11 - Aug

📢 Exciting News! The Fourth Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2025) will be held at the University of Pennsylvania (<a href="/Penn/">Penn</a>) in Philadelphia, USA 🇺🇸

🗓️ Important Dates:

Abstract Deadline: Feb 21, 2025
Submission Deadline: Feb 26, 2025
Conference Dates: Aug 11 - Aug
Ming Jin (@mingjin80233626) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ever wonder how extremely rare, high-risk black swan events can sneak up even when nothing changes? In our #ICLR2025 paper, we introduce S-BLACK SWAN: a framework showing how misperceived rewards and probabilities alone can spawn catastrophic surprises—no shifting environment

Finding The Frame Workshop (@rlframeworkshop) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After last year's success, Finding the Frame is back at #RLC2025 🚀! Do you want to rethink the conceptual foundations of RL? Define new problems, challenge assumptions, or test the limits of RL paradigms? Join us! Submit by: 30th May 2025, AoE Guidelines: sites.google.com/view/findingth…

After last year's success, Finding the Frame is back at #RLC2025 🚀!
Do you want to rethink the conceptual foundations of RL? Define new problems, challenge assumptions, or test the limits of RL paradigms? Join us!
Submit by: 30th May 2025, AoE
Guidelines: sites.google.com/view/findingth…
Samuel Garcin (@samuelgarcin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Looking forward to presenting our study on representation learning for on-policy actor-critic algorithms in Singapore for #ICLR2025 ! Here's a picture to tease 3 key insights in our study... 1⃣ Decoupled actor-critic model architectures outperform their shared counterparts.

Looking forward to presenting our study on representation learning for on-policy actor-critic algorithms in Singapore for #ICLR2025 !

Here's a picture to tease 3 key insights in our study...

1⃣ Decoupled actor-critic model architectures outperform  their shared counterparts.
Iason Gabriel (@iasongabriel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Excited to share my new paper with Atoosa Kasirzadeh “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance” We identify four key dimensions of AI agency—autonomy, efficacy, goal complexity & generality—and use this analysis to construct “agentic profiles” for a range of AI agents.

🚨 Excited to share my new paper with <a href="/Dr_Atoosa/">Atoosa Kasirzadeh</a> “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance”

We identify four key dimensions of AI agency—autonomy, efficacy, goal complexity &amp; generality—and use this analysis to construct “agentic profiles” for a range of AI agents.
Finding The Frame Workshop (@rlframeworkshop) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Reminder! Submissions for RL_Conference's Finding the Frame are due May 30 (AoE)! We're looking for bold ideas that rethink the foundations of RL: goals, values, rewards, formalisms, and beyond. 🧠Philosophy, theory, critique welcome! 🔗More details: sites.google.com/view/findingth…

🚨 Reminder! Submissions for <a href="/RL_Conference/">RL_Conference</a>'s Finding the Frame are due May 30 (AoE)!
We're looking for bold ideas that rethink the foundations of RL: goals, values, rewards, formalisms, and beyond. 
🧠Philosophy, theory, critique welcome!
🔗More details: sites.google.com/view/findingth…
Finding The Frame Workshop (@rlframeworkshop) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🖼️Reminder!! Finding the Frame will be held on August 5 at RL_Conference at University of Alberta! See you in Edmonton 📰Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=rl-co… ⌛️Deadline: May 30 🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/findingth…

🖼️Reminder!! Finding the Frame will be held on August 5 at <a href="/RL_Conference/">RL_Conference</a> at <a href="/UAlberta/">University of Alberta</a>! 

See you in Edmonton

📰Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=rl-co…
⌛️Deadline: May 30
🔗More info: sites.google.com/view/findingth…
Jon Richens (@jonathanrichens) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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… 🧵

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… 🧵
David Abel (@dabelcs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited about this new work led by Jon Richens, joint with Alexis Bellot and Tom Everitt Main result: Any agent that can solve a sufficiently rich set of goal-directed tasks must have learned a predictive model of the environment arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622