I'm a PhD student at Mila and University of Montreal, advised by Aishwarya Agrawal. This summer I'll join Qualcomm Research in Amsterdam as an intern. I work on generative models, world models, and reinforcement learning. My research is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT).

Research

Scaling on internet text has taken us remarkably far — and so the path to physical intelligence is now vivid. I believe in the manifesto for the era of experience, and I work on generative world models. To make them work for agents in a big world, we need better representations and better policy-gradient algorithms for scaling experience.

A few deep-learning "topics" I like the most: diffusion and flow-based models; the target network trick from RL; and SSL, including asymmetric views in BYOL.

Selected publications

See Google Scholar for the full list. *denotes equal contribution.

Misc

Talks

Slides from a few talks I put extra care into. Mostly for our group at Mila.

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