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Aly Lidayan

@aliday.bsky.social

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CS PhD student at UC Berkeley studying RL and cognitive science alyd.github.io

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Luigi Acerbi @lacerbi.bsky.social · 21h

1/ A short film about how your brain solves the "one thing or two?" problem, based on our recent paper with Shuze Liu, Trevor Holland and @weijima.bsky.social in PLoS Comp Biol.

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Aly Lidayan @aliday.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New paper! Setting goals is so useful in complex settings because it can reduce the environment's complexity to only the goal-relevant features. But for humans, reframing comes at a cost. Could this explain why we're so bad at abandoning goals that are no longer worthwhile? 🧵

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Aly Lidayan @aliday.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I'm presenting this 3-5:30pm on Saturday, Hall 3 #396 🌞 come chat about designing rewards and intrinsic motivation for RL + meta RL!

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Christian Guckelsberger @creativeendvs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

1/3 Out now: new paper on people's perception of AI (robot) creativity! Core finding: we attribute more creativity to a creative act if people not only see the final artwork, but also its creation process & the robot making it. Video: vimeo.com/1073134853 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1145/3711...

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Aly Lidayan @aliday.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨Our new #ICLR2025 paper presents a unified framework for intrinsic motivation and reward shaping: they signal the value of the RL agent’s state🤖=external state🌎+past experience🧠. Rewards based on potentials over the learning agent’s state provably avoid reward hacking!🧵

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