Thanks to everyone who submitted; we enjoyed reviewing another fantastic set of papers this year! Check out all 27 accepted papers on our website 👉sites.google.com/view/findingth…

The Most Thought-Provoking paper award goes to Thinking is Another Form of Control 🏆 Congratulations to  Josiah Hanna and Nicholas E. Corrado! 🎉 Check out their paper here: openreview.net/pdf/599e1574f4…

We have a really exciting lineup of invited speakers this year 🔥 Kicking us off we have Prof. Erin Talvitie (Harvey Mudd College), whose talk is titled: 20 Years of Asking the Wrong Questions in Model-based reinforcement learning. Abstract in 🧵

* RLC Full Papers:* (These are great papers!) - Deep RL track (Thu): Deep Reinforcement Learning with Gradient Eligibility Traces by E. Elelimy - Foundations track (Fri): An Analysis of Action-Value Temporal-Difference Methods That Learn State Values by B. Daley and P. Nagarajan

Tomorrow (08/08) at RL_Conference, I will be presenting our (Brett Daley, Marlos C. Machado Martha White) work: "An Analysis of Action-Value Temporal-Difference Methods That Learn State Values" in CCIS 1-160 from 11:45-12:30. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09523. Poster: 43.

Have people seen this prescient 2001 post by Richard Sutton on self-verification? "An AI system can create and maintain knowledge only to the extent that it can verify that knowledge itself". This sentiment underpins much LLM reasoning research today. incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Keyto…

Jane Goodall had a remarkable ability to inspire us to connect with the natural wonders of our world, and her groundbreaking work on primates and the importance of conservation opened doors for generations of women in science. Michelle and I are thinking of all those who loved

Can the knowledge in language model representations guide the search for novel behaviors? We find that exploration with a simple, principled, representation-based bonus improves diversity and pass@k rates for inference-time and post-training!

Here is my response about RL comment after watching the podcast of Dwarkesh Patel interviewing Andrej Karpathy and his comment on RL: x.com/dwarkesh_sp/st… RL is a powerful idea, but let's be thoughtful about when we actually need it. RL has an incredible 120+ year journey in animal

Proud of our latest Nature publication, led by the Sony AI ethics team!

A key claim here arxiv.org/abs/2511.05963 is that next token prediction has no inherent preference for a heliocentric Copernicus theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernica… over a geocentric Ptolemy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy#A… theory of observations. Predicting the next latent fixes that.