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Jakob Foerster

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bidiptas13.bsky.social @bidiptas13.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Introducing 🥚EGGROLL 🥚(Evolution Guided General Optimization via Low-rank Learning)! 🚀 Scaling backprop-free Evolution Strategies (ES) for billion-parameter models at large population sizes ⚡100x Training Throughput 🎯Fast Convergence 🔢Pure Int8 Pretraining of RNN LLMs
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Late to the party (since I just took some time to spend with our two little ones) but luckily good science is timeless ;)
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
PQN puts Q-learning back on the map and now comes with a blog post + Colab demo! Also, congrats to the team for the spotlight at #ICLR2025
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My group @FLAIR_Ox is recruiting a postdoc and looking for someone who can get started by the end of April. Deadline to apply is in one week (!), 19th of March at noon, so please help spread the word: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
That's the first time that I see a video by chess.com cited in an accepted ICLR paper, in particular on handshakes vs. fist bumps during a chess competition ... By Oxford, @jfoerst.bsky.social Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=wFg... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fS7... @danielrensch.chess.com
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Amine El Ouassouli @aelouass.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@jfoerst.bsky.social take on how the community sees the ARC Challenge and how we evaluate models and use benchmarks nowadays is 👌. #more_science_less_hype (please). PS: Amazing discussion and good brain food, as usual with MLST.
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ImageNet Moment for Reinforcement Learning?
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Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Second #runconference @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 ! @jfoerst.bsky.social @ferranalet.bsky.social @adamjelley.bsky.social @enjeeneer.io Same deal for tomorrow: 7am at goo.gl/maps/8Z8eMrd... Join us!
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Apply here and list me as the _first_ supervisor: ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... More information at foersterlab.com. Thanks a lot and happy applying!
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DPhil in Engineering Science | University of Oxford
About the courseThe DPhil in Engineering Science will offer you the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise in your chosen field of engineering research. To support
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🚨 PSA 🚨 Deadline to apply for your dream Phd in ML @FLAIR_Ox is coming up on the 2nd of December AOE. We work on compute-only scaling of LLMs, (meta/multi-agent) RL at the Hyperscale, Human-AI coordination, opponent-shaping for vaccine design, GenAI for finance & much more..
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DPhil in Engineering Science | University of Oxford
About the courseThe DPhil in Engineering Science will offer you the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise in your chosen field of engineering research. To support
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
correct -- this runs on top of an open-source protocol and the UI is a Twitter clone. How hard can this be?
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
wth did we not go to an open-source and non-for profit alternative? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
sad times. Joking aside, have you tried pufferlib? I am really curious how it compares and contrasts to JAX RL line of work and haven't seen much direct comparison.
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Let's try @josephsuarez.bsky.social
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Candidates also need to apply for an Engineering DPhil by 2nd of Dec AOE (if they haven’t already) listing me as the supervisor, www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... The student should have an outstanding track record of academic excellence and relevant research experience.
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DPhil in Engineering Science | University of Oxford
About the courseThe DPhil in Engineering Science will offer you the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise in your chosen field of engineering research. To support
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Apply by emailing a CV, personal statement, and research proposal to “fair-flair-2024-applications@googlegroups.com” by 2nd of Dec AOE. Joint interviews will be held in January. Shortlisted candidates will also be invited to apply to FAIR.
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The goal is to improve the generalisation abilities and data efficiency of GenAI, e.g. using RL and curriculum learning to train LLMs at the frontier of learnability. For more details about our work, check out foersterlab.com and joao.science
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FLAIR is a research group in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, specialising in Reinforcement Learning.
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hello BlueSky! Joao Henriques (joao.science) and I are hiring a fully funded PhD student (UK/international) for the FAIR-Oxford program. The student will spend 50% of their time @UniofOxford and 50% @MetaAI (FAIR) in London, while completing a DPhil (Oxford PhD). Deadline: 2nd of Dec AOE!!
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I got summoned 🫡
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello world!
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