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First position paper I ever wrote. "Beyond Statistical Learning: Exact Learning Is Essential for General Intelligence" arxiv.org/abs/2506.23908 Background: I'd like LLMs to help me do math, but statistical learning seems inadequate to make this happen. What do you all think?

Our seminars are back. If you missed Max's talk, it is on YouTube and today I will host Jeongyeol from UWM who will talk about the curious case of why latent MDPs though scary at first sight might be tractable! Link to the seminar homepage: sites.google.com/view/rltheor...

This is a very significant development - more fellowships, harmonized and typically higher stipends, and international students can apply #CanPoli www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Dylan J. Foster, Zakaria Mhammedi, Dhruv Rohatgi: Is a Good Foundation Necessary for Efficient Reinforcement Learning? The Computational Role of the Base Model in Exploration https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07453 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07453 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.07453

Who says mountain car is a toy problem? www.reddit.com/r/nonononoye...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Pe... An interview with Rich. The humility of Rich is truly inspiring: "There are no authorities in science". I wish people would listen and live by this.

New journal that looks pretty good for your mathy type people caring about ML, AI and alike: mdlijournal.org

New paper: Simulating Time With Square-Root Space people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/time-vs-... It's still hard for me to believe it myself, but I seem to have shown that TIME[t] is contained in SPACE[sqrt{t log t}]. To appear in STOC. Comments are very welcome!

Yet another opportunity to visit Edmonton in the summer. If you come, ask me to take you on the river valley trails, or to go climbing together😄

📣My team at Microsoft Research New York is hiring a senior researcher in AI, both broadly in AI/ML, and in some specific areas including science of deep learning and modular transfer learning. Apply by February 7, 2025 on the link below. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Excited to announce the first RLC 2025 keynote speaker, a researcher who needs little introduction, whose textbook we've all read, and who keeps pushing the frontier on RL with human-level sample efficiency

Applications are open for the Research Scholar Program, a program that supports early-career professors conducting research in fields relevant to Google. Learn more and apply by January 27 at goo.gle/RS

Registration for ALT 2025 is now open! Be sure to register by January 31 to take advantage of the early rate. Join us in beautiful and historic Milan in February! Conveniently co-located with Milan Fashion Week. www.eventbrite.com/e/alt-2025-t...

"I came across your university page and found your research on Computer Vision fascinating." Thanks, I am also fascinated by your ignorance to details, we will surely make a good team! Jeez..

*PLS SHARE* Open position for an *Associate Professor* in Machine Learning at our department (@enginyeria-upf.bsky.social / @upf.edu), via the Serra Hunter programme. DEADLINE: January 13th 2025 www.upf.edu/web/personal...

Applications open on Dec 20 for the #Research Scholar program, which aims to strengthen long-term collaboration with the academic community by supporting early-career professors pursuing research in fields relevant to #Google. Learn more & apply by Jan 27 ↓ research.google/programs-and...

If you are into ML theory (RL or not) with a proven track record, and you are interested in an industry research position, PM me. Feel free to spread the word.

It appears I still make it to this year's Neurips just before it end. And if you want to say hello, and/or are curious about the latest and greatest results for ensemble sampling, join me at the poster session in the afternoon. Or at the climbing session after the poster session😜🧗🏼‍♂️

Interested in a post-doc position in theoretical computer science? Want to find out why they call it "Wonderful Copenhagen"? Look here! Application deadline January 10. Hiring in multiple areas including geometry, complexity, learning, and privacy. jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

My team at Waymo is hiring two London-based interns for Summer 2025. Please consider applying! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su... careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...

Wow, o1 seems to have the biggest ego of any LLM I ever tested before. It gives me incorrect solutions to simple math problems and then insists on that I misunderstand things. And it cannot be swayed! Wow, just wow.

Everyone I spoke to at @rl-conference.bsky.social last summer agreed on it being one of the best conferences ever for an RL researcher... So many great RL-focused papers! CFP is out, send your work here!

🎉Good news, everyone! 🎉 I will recruit graduate students on the algorithmic and theoretical aspects of Reinforcement Learning. You will join Adage, @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @polymtl.bsky.social. More info on why and how you should apply: academic.sologen.net/2024/11/22/g... Deadline: Dec 1st

This one is for @conitzer.bsky.social whom I spotted here. Although I'm done done reading it, I'm feeling very good about this book, which avoids so many of the traps of this complicated but important subject and presents things simply, but strongly. Thanks Vincent!!

Hello Blue Sky! Let's see what you are good for.