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Pierre-Luc Bacon

@pierrelux
Prof. at @UMontrealDIRO @MILAMontreal
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    Pierre-Luc Bacon
    @pierrelux
    Sep 26, 2025
    Excited to share our new preprint on refrigerant discovery. It started as a bold idea brought by Anna Vartanyan @annadaneau, and thanks the amazing work of Adrien Goldszal, @diegocalanzone, Vincent Taboga, it became a reality.
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    Discovery of Sustainable Refrigerants through Physics-Informed RL...
    Most refrigerants currently used in air-conditioning systems, such as hydrofluorocarbons, are potent greenhouse gases and are being phased down. Large-scale molecular screening has been applied to...
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    Pierre-Luc Bacon
    @pierrelux
    Jan 28, 2024
    πŸŽ‰Congrats to Tianwei for his remarkable intuition and dedication. Our paper provides theoretical grounding for self-predictive RL and bridges to established theories on learning approximate information states in POMDPs.
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    Tianwei Ni
    @twni2016
    Jan 28, 2024
    Replying to @twni2016
    Our unification justifies *auxiliary tasks*. Training an encoder end-to-end for maximizing returns with the auxiliary task of learning ZP, as in SPR paper arxiv.org/abs/2007.05929, promises to learn self-predictive abstraction, also known as bisimulation and model-irrelevance.
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    Pierre-Luc Bacon
    @pierrelux
    Jan 24, 2024
    πŸŽ‰ Excited to share our new paper accepted at AISTATS 2024: "Maximum Entropy GFlowNets with Soft Q-Learning" πŸ”— arxiv.org/abs/2312.14331. Kudos to Sobhan Mohammadpour for his stellar work in his MSc thesis!
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    Maximum entropy GFlowNets with soft Q-learning
    Generative Flow Networks (GFNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for sampling discrete objects from unnormalized distributions, offering a scalable alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)...
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    Pierre-Luc Bacon
    @pierrelux
    Jan 21, 2024
    Congrats to Mahan, who is finishing his Master's thesis in beauty with this second paper.
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    Mahan Fathi
    @MahanFathi
    Jan 17, 2024
    Course Correcting Koopman Representations Accepted at #ICLR2024! We identify problems with unrolling in imagination and propose an unconventional, simple, yet effective solution: periodically "π’“π’†π’†π’π’„π’π’…π’Šπ’π’ˆ" the latent. πŸ“„ arxiv.org/abs/2310.15386 @GoogleDeepMind 1/🧡
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    Pierre-Luc Bacon
    @pierrelux
    Dec 11, 2023
    🌟 Proud of @MahanFathi's msc work in collaboration with @GoogleDeepMind! Block-State Transformer elegantly combine SSM's long-range efficiency and Transformer's NLP advantage. πŸš€ BST outperforms in language modeling and scales easily. Don't miss their poster at #NeurIPS2023
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    Mahan Fathi
    @MahanFathi
    Dec 9, 2023
    Why not get the best of both worlds by combining SSMs and Transformers? Excited to share our work at #NeurIPS2023: "Block-State Transformers." BST hits new highs in long-range language modeling and LRA tasks. paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.09539 1/
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