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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We’re hiring REs, PhD students and Postdocs @kthuniversity.bsky.social to work on digitalizing human olfaction. Looking for applicants interested in representation learning, biosignal processing, large language and multimodal models. Fully funded positions in Stockholm. Apply below!

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Less than 2 weeks left to submit your papers to our workshop! Working on RL, foundation models, world models with and for games? Consider submitting to our workshop!

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

But wait, there's more! Our call for papers is now LIVE at: openreview.net/group?id=rl-... We're looking for work on sample efficiency, world models, foundation model agents, multi-agent systems, reward learning, and more: all through the lens of video games. Deadline May 20! #RL #GameAI

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RLC 2026 Workshop RLVG

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for RLC 2026 Workshop RLVG

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Wake up Samurai, RLVG IS BACK! 😎 We are happy to announce the awesome speakers of the second edition of the RLVG workshop: @alexkearney.com, @marloscmachado.bsky.social, Martin Singh-Bloom, Sam Devlin, Pete Wurman and @neuroai.bsky.social! Join us August 15th at @rl-conference.bsky.social!

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My favorite workshop is back for a second edition! If you work on RL and Video Games this is the workshop for you!!

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Conference rejections: hurts a bit but it's fine. Radiohead rejections: I'll be crying in a corner all night

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James MacGlashan @jmac-ai.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

This one's been a long time coming. In this post on Decisions & Dragons I answer "Should we abandon RL?" The answer is obviously no, but people ask because they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what RL is. RL is a problem, not an approach. www.decisionsanddragons.com/posts/should...

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The @rl-conference.bsky.social is always the best time of the year for a RL researcher! This year I had a blast co-organizing the @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social, alongside amazing people! A huge thanks to our keynote speakers and everyone who joined the discussion. Can’t wait for Montreal next year!

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We’re excited to announce our final keynote speaker: @michaelhbowling.bsky.social (University of Alberta). 🎲🃏 In this talk, he will explore what drew him to explore using 40-year-old video games to test RL agents! Join us at @rl-conference.bsky.social to find out more about the Atari Benchmark!

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We’re excited to announce our next speaker: @pcastr.bsky.social (Google DeepMind, Mila) 🎮🕹️ His research tackles core challenges in deep RL for real-world impact, like network scalability and plasticity loss! Join us at @rl-conference.bsky.social to learn more about Pablo’s work!

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We’re excited to announce our next keynote speaker: @neuroai.bsky.social (Microsoft Research) 🧠 Ida studies how humans and AI build world models for memory, exploration, and planning. Her talk will show how game-playing AI reveals insights into human and artificial cognition. Join us at #RLC2025!

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We’re excited to announce our next speaker: Roberta Raileanu ( Google DeepMind)! Roberta will discuss the history and future of NetHack, the iconic roguelike that continues to challenge RL and LLM agents alike. ⚔️ Join us to learn how we can develop agents capable of tackling open-endedness!

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We’re excited to announce our first speaker: James MacGlashan (@jmac-ai.bsky.social), from Sony AI! 🚀 James led the development of GT Sophy, a superhuman RL racing agent in Gran Turismo! Join his talk to learn about how GT Sophy was used as an opponent in GT7 and what’s next for RL in gaming.

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“A delayed paper is eventually good; a bad paper is forever bad” - Shigeru Miyamoto One more week to submit to our amazing RL and video games workshop!

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

‼️ Two days left to submit your contributions for our workshop! Working on RL and video games? Join us! We will have amazing speakers, cool events and a 🎮special topical🎮 best paper award prize! ⌛ Paper Submission Deadline: May 30th Find out more here: sites.google.com/view/rlvg-wo...

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Fantastic work on general utility MDPs by @pedrosantospps.bsky.social! You can find a summary of the paper in his account (go follow him as well!).

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

One week left to submit your contributions for our workshop! ⏰🎮 We welcome submissions on video games to benchmark open problems in RL and in applications of RL for video game development! ⌛ Paper Submission Deadline: May 30th Find out more here: sites.google.com/view/rlvg-wo...

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RL and Video Games Workshop @rlvgworkshop.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Running out of time to submit your contributions for our workshop! We welcome submissions on video games to benchmark open problems in RL and in applications of RL for video game development! ⌛ Paper Submission Deadline: May 30th Find out more here: sites.google.com/view/rlvg-wo...

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Pedro Santos @pedrosantospps.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Happy to share that our paper "The Number of Trials Matters in Infinite-Horizon General-Utility Markov Decision Processes" got accepted as a spotlight poster at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

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Nona Rajabi @nonar.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🎉Excited to share that our paper "𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧" has been accepted to #ICML2025! 🔗 Preprint Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03081 Huge thanks to my co-authors!

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Human-Aligned Image Models Improve Visual Decoding from the Brain

Decoding visual images from brain activity has significant potential for advancing brain-computer interaction and enhancing the understanding of human perception. Recent approaches align the represent...

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Adrián Javaloy @javaloyml.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This year I am co-organizing the 8th iteration of the Tractable Probabilistic Modeling #TPM workshop at #UAI2025 🌴 Rio de Janeiro edition 🌴 🌐 lnkd.in/dDK8T5Au ⏰ Submission deadline: May 23th AoE 🌴 Date: July 15th 🧵👇

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Adam Jelley @adamjelley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Join us at the Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025 for a Workshop on Reinforcement Learning and Video Games, celebrating a decade since the Atari Nature paper 🎮 🕹️ Check out our webpage for more information: sites.google.com/view/rlvg-wo...

Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It’s been 10 years since the Atari DQN Nature paper! What better way to celebrate this milestone than with a dedicated workshop on RL and Video Games at @rl-conference.bsky.social? 🎮🎮 Join us to discuss how video games can be used to address fundamental RL problems and how RL can be used in Games!

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The reply-all button should be banned. Especially when organization-wide mailing lists are in CC. Rant over.

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The acknowledgement check for ICML reviews is a bit like global warming. We see it, we promise we will change, but, in the end, nothing happens.

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

So happy to finally see @kthuniversity.bsky.social in Bluesky! Hope more European universities follow suit and expand their academic and research presence here.

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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Some extra motivation for those of you in RLC deadline mode: our line-up of keynote speakers -- as all accepted papers get a talk, they may attend yours! @rl-conference.bsky.social

RLC Keynote speakers: Leslie Kaelbling, Peter Dayan, Rich Sutton, Dale Schuurmans, Joelle Pineau, Michael Littman

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Nona Rajabi @nonar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I’m attending #NeurIPS in Vancouver from Tuesday to Sunday. I’ll be presenting our paper “Amplified Early Stopping Bias: Overestimated Performance with Deep Learning” in the Scientific Methods for Understanding Deep Learning Workshop. Let’s meet especially if you are interested in Neuroscience!

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Not at #NeurIPS2024, but my amazing students are! 🎉 Don’t miss the chance to chat with them about: - @farzaneh-taleb.bsky.social: Representation alignment & olfaction (Wed, 16:30, PS 2 East) - @esteveste.bsky.social: RL (Fri, 11:00, PS 5 East) - @nonar.bsky.social: Neuroscience & ML (Sun, 11:20)

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Bernardo Esteves @esteveste.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🚀 Excited to present NeuralSolver at NeurIPS 2024! Humans can easily learn algorithms to solve much more complex tasks, from simple tasks. Machine learning methods usually fail to do this. Can we build models that have similar algorithmic extrapolation abilities? Thread 🧵:

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Fantastic work led by Bernardo (his 1st PhD work!) on learning algorithms that scale to large input sizes! We also explore how this could be applied to sequential decision-making tasks. If you are attending @neuripsconf.bsky.social, be sure to talk to him! He is going to be a star, for sure!

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Miguel Vasco @miguelvasco.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

🚀 Job Alert! 🚀 We’re hiring a PhD student excited about multimodal machine learning and reinforcement learning! Apply by November 28, 2024 to be part of our research team at KTH. 🔗 Apply here: kth.se/lediga-jobb/... 📬 DM for details, and please reshare to spread the word!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Trying to slowly populate the RL list here, help me out: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg

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