guillaumepourcel.bsky.social
@guillaumepourcel.bsky.social
PhD student @univgroningen, intern @InriaScool, @FlowersINRIA
. CogScI, AI. Inspired by brains (make RNNs behave like autograd) and behavior (open-ended goals)
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A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...
Felix — Jane X. Wang
From the moment I heard him give a talk, I knew I wanted to work with Felix . His ideas about generalization and situatedness made explicit thoughts that had been swirling around in my head, incohe...
www.janexwang.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Actually in 2024 on it’s hard to attribute malice to this because there are far more OpenAI outputs on the web, so crawling on pertaining can make the model think that — and they do light post training (not enough to correct).

Many open models have this problem.
January 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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we are recruiting interns for a few projects with @pyoudeyer
in bordeaux
> studying llm-mediated cultural evolution with @nisioti_eleni
@Jeremy__Perez

> balancing exploration and exploitation with autotelic rl with @ClementRomac

details and links in 🧵
please share!
November 27, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Kind of a broken record here but proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/...
is totally fascinating in that it postulates two underlying, measurable structures that you can use to assess if RL will be easy or hard in an environment
November 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM