Jacob Beck

@jakeABeck

Let’s get agents to learn fast! 🤖🔥 Senior Scientist @Oracle | PhD @UniOfOxford, MS & BS @BrownUniversity, Predoc @Microsoft

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Joined April 2014

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Jacob Beck
@jakeABeck
Apr 5, 2025
Big news—our survey paper “A Tutorial on Meta-Reinforcement Learning” is officially published! Meta-RL = learning how to adapt through interaction. It embraces The Bitter Lesson: don’t hardcode agents—train them to adapt on their own arxiv.org/abs/2301.08028 🧵⬇️
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A Tutorial on Meta-Reinforcement Learning
While deep reinforcement learning (RL) has fueled multiple high-profile successes in machine learning, it is held back from more widespread adoption by its often poor data efficiency and the...
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Jacob Beck
@jakeABeck
Oct 6
If anyone is looking for an intern (in memory/continual learning, RSI, post-training, or scientific applications), @HananeNMoussa did a fantastic job last summer at Oracle!
Hanane Nour Moussa
@HananeNMoussa
Oct 5
I’m attending COLM conference this week, where I am co-organizing the LM4Sci Workshop @lm4sci, co-moderating a panel discussion 💬, and presenting our paper D3-Gym alongside @YifeiLiPKU (see more below)! I’m currently excited about memory/continual learning, RSI, and
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Jacob Beck
@jakeABeck
Sep 24
AI is unlocking new mathematical, algorithmic, and scientific discoveries. Our team at @Oracle found a much simpler approach to LLM-driven discovery that sets a new state of the art—in under 5 hours on 8 H100s Hill Sampling for Test-Time Scaling
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Hill Sampling for Test-Time Scaling: A Simple and Better...
Large language models (LLMs) can improve solutions to verifiable scientific and algorithmic problems by spending additional computation at test time. Recent systems achieve strong results with...
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Jacob Beck
@jakeABeck
Oct 24, 2025
Summer 2026 Internship — Oracle (Boston, MA) My fantastic research team is hiring! Projects include a data scientist agent with in-context learning, evolutionary search (a la AlphaEvolve), AI feedback, and RL/ES Apply here! eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… 📧 [email protected]
PhD Research Assistant - Machine Learning Research Group
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Jacob Beck
@jakeABeck
Sep 30, 2025
Excited to host @ml_collective Office Hours! Available for advice, mentorship, and discussion on RL, LLMs, meta-learning, and beyond. mlcollective.org/services/
ML Collective
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Sep 30, 2025
Welcome to the newest MLC Office Hours host, @jakeABeck, researcher at Oracle! Schedule a chat with Jacob at the link below to talk about RL, LLMs, hypernetworks, meta-learning, multi-agent RL, AI feedback, philosophy, and more! mlcollective.org/services/

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