I am not attending NeurIPS this year! (last minute cancellation) I am sad that I will not get to see many friends and having FOMO about all the parties. (pls dm pictures 😉) Many current and past PAIR group members are in Vancouver. Atharva Mete Zhou Zihan Marta Skreta

Today, Vector brought together leading AI researchers from around the world at our #NeurIPS2024 Luncheon, fostering meaningful connections and collaborations in AI. This gathering exemplified what makes Vector remarkable: the convergence of over 860 active researchers who are

While OpenAI folks say that they are running out of sufficiently difficult benchmarks, my robots still can't clean up my kitchen.

Few interviewers acknowledge this 😅

Do you want to get the most out of your samples, but increasing the number of update steps just destabilizes RL training? Our #ICLR2025 spotlight paper shows that using the values of unseen actions causes instability in continuous state-action domains and how learned models help!

Today I relearned the most important lesson in RL: The answer is ALWAYS REPS 😂 Jan Peters First RL lesson I ever learned

In Germany, there is a tradition of creating funny hats for doctoral graduates. 🎓 Claas Voelcker brought this tradition to my group and, together with Umangi Jain, spearheaded the construction of a masterpiece for our first PhD graduate, Ashkan Mirzaei. 1/2