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Joe Watson

@joemwatson.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher in robotics & machine learning for control (A2I, Oxford Robotics Institute) previously PhD @ TU Darmstadt / DFKI, Google DeepMind robotics intern, CMR Surgical, University of Cambridge joemwatson.github.io

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Daniel Palenicek @daniel-palenicek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Headed to Rio for #ICLR 🇧🇷 come say hi at our poster! XQC: a principled look at critic optimization. BN+WN+cross-entropy → condition numbers orders of magnitude smaller than baselines. SOTA on 70 continuous ctrl tasks w/ 4.5× less params. 📅 Thu, 1030–1300 📍 Pavilion 4, #4518

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Reposted by Joe Watson

Daniel Palenicek @daniel-palenicek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Headed to Rio for #ICLR 🇧🇷 come say hi at our poster! XQC: a principled look at critic optimization. BN+WN+cross-entropy → condition numbers orders of magnitude smaller than baselines. SOTA on 70 continuous ctrl tasks w/ 4.5× less params. 📅 Thu, 1030–1300 📍 Pavilion 4, #4518

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