Aaron Courville
96 papers · 2005–2025 · 18 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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Machine Learning
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reinforcement learning
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image classification
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language model
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sample efficiency
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deep learning
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visual question answering
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generative adversarial network
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recurrent neural network
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tree structure
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Papers
Advantage Alignment Algorithms
ICLR 2025
Asynchronous RLHF: Faster and More Efficient Off-Policy RL for Language Models
ICLR 2025
Don't flatten, tokenize! Unlocking the key to SoftMoE's efficacy in deep RL
ICLR 2025
FLAM: Frame-Wise Language-Audio Modeling
ICML 2025
Forgetting Transformer: Softmax Attention with a Forget Gate
ICLR 2025
Mitigating Plasticity Loss in Continual Reinforcement Learning by Reducing Churn
ICML 2025
Neuroplastic Expansion in Deep Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2025
Scaling Stick-Breaking Attention: An Efficient Implementation and In-depth Study
ICLR 2025
The Courage to Stop: Overcoming Sunk Cost Fallacy in Deep Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2025
The Impact of On-Policy Parallelized Data Collection on Deep Reinforcement Learning Networks
ICML 2025
VinePPO: Refining Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs
ICML 2025
Adaptive Accompaniment with ReaLchords
ICML 2024
Diffusion Generative Flow Samplers: Improving learning signals through partial trajectory optimization
ICLR 2024
GenRL: Multimodal-foundation world models for generalization in embodied agents
NeurIPS 2024
In value-based deep reinforcement learning, a pruned network is a good network
ICML 2024
LOQA: Learning with Opponent Q-Learning Awareness
ICLR 2024
Modeling Caption Diversity in Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining
ICML 2024
SAFT: Towards Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Fine-Tuning
ECCV 2024
SPARO: Selective Attention for Robust and Compositional Transformer Encodings for Vision
ECCV 2024
The Curse of Diversity in Ensemble-Based Exploration
ICLR 2024
Bigger, Better, Faster: Human-level Atari with human-level efficiency
ICML 2023
Generative Augmented Flow Networks
ICLR 2023
Investigating Multi-task Pretraining and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2023
Latent State Marginalization as a Low-cost Approach for Improving Exploration
ICLR 2023
Mastering the Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Benchmark from Pixels
ICML 2023
Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning by Breaking the Replay Ratio Barrier
ICLR 2023
Simplicial Embeddings in Self-Supervised Learning and Downstream Classification
ICLR 2023
Sparse Universal Transformer
EMNLP 2023
Building Robust Ensembles via Margin Boosting
ICML 2022
Chunked Autoregressive GAN for Conditional Waveform Synthesis
ICLR 2022
DR3: Value-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Requires Explicit Regularization
ICLR 2022
Fortuitous Forgetting in Connectionist Networks
ICLR 2022
Generative Flow Networks for Discrete Probabilistic Modeling
ICML 2022
Learning to Dequantise with Truncated Flows
ICLR 2022
MIDI-DDSP: Detailed Control of Musical Performance via Hierarchical Modeling
ICLR 2022
Multi-Label Iterated Learning for Image Classification With Label Ambiguity
CVPR 2022
On the Compositional Generalization Gap of In-Context Learning
EMNLP 2022
The Primacy Bias in Deep Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2022
Unifying Likelihood-free Inference with Black-box Optimization and Beyond
ICLR 2022
Unsupervised Dependency Graph Network
ACL 2022
VIM: Variational Independent Modules for Video Prediction
CLeaR 2022
Can Subnetwork Structure Be the Key to Out-of-Distribution Generalization?
ICML 2021
Continuous Coordination As a Realistic Scenario for Lifelong Learning
ICML 2021
Convex Potential Flows: Universal Probability Distributions with Optimal Transport and Convex Optimization
ICLR 2021
Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Self-Predictive Representations
ICLR 2021
Explicitly Modeling Syntax in Language Models with Incremental Parsing and a Dynamic Oracle
NAACL 2021
Generative Compositional Augmentations for Scene Graph Prediction
ICCV 2021
Haptics-based Curiosity for Sparse-reward Tasks
CoRL 2021
Integrating Categorical Semantics into Unsupervised Domain Translation
ICLR 2021
Iterated learning for emergent systematicity in VQA
ICLR 2021
Learning Task Decomposition with Ordered Memory Policy Network
ICLR 2021
Neural Approximate Sufficient Statistics for Implicit Models
ICLR 2021
Out-of-Distribution Generalization via Risk Extrapolation (REx)
ICML 2021
StructFormer: Joint Unsupervised Induction of Dependency and Constituency Structure from Masked Language Modeling
ACL 2021
Systematic generalisation with group invariant predictions
ICLR 2021
Understanding by Understanding Not: Modeling Negation in Language Models
NAACL 2021
AR-DAE: Towards Unbiased Neural Entropy Gradient Estimation
ICML 2020
Countering Language Drift with Seeded Iterated Learning
ICML 2020
Detecting Semantic Anomalies
AAAI 2020
On Bonus Based Exploration Methods In The Arcade Learning Environment
ICLR 2020
Recursive Top-Down Production for Sentence Generation with Latent Trees
EMNLP 2020
Stochastic Neural Network with Kronecker Flow
AISTATS 2020
Supervised Seeded Iterated Learning for Interactive Language Learning
EMNLP 2020
Batch Weight for Domain Adaptation With Mass Shift
ICCV 2019
Hierarchical Importance Weighted Autoencoders
ICML 2019
Improved Conditional VRNNs for Video Prediction
ICCV 2019
On the Spectral Bias of Neural Networks
ICML 2019
Ordered Neurons: Integrating Tree Structures into Recurrent Neural Networks
ICLR 2019
Probability Distillation: A Caveat and Alternatives
UAI 2019
Systematic Generalization: What Is Required and Can It Be Learned?
ICLR 2019
Augmented CycleGAN: Learning Many-to-Many Mappings from Unpaired Data
ICML 2018
Mutual Information Neural Estimation
ICML 2018
Neural Autoregressive Flows
ICML 2018
Neural Language Modeling by Jointly Learning Syntax and Lexicon
ICLR 2018
Sim-to-Real Transfer with Neural-Augmented Robot Simulation
CoRL 2018
Straight to the Tree: Constituency Parsing with Neural Syntactic Distance
ACL 2018
A Closer Look at Memorization in Deep Networks
ICML 2017
A Dataset and Exploration of Models for Understanding Video Data Through Fill-In-The-Blank Question-Answering
CVPR 2017
End-to-end optimization of goal-driven and visually grounded dialogue systems
IJCAI 2017
GuessWhat?! Visual Object Discovery Through Multi-Modal Dialogue
CVPR 2017
Piecewise Latent Variables for Neural Variational Text Processing
EMNLP 2017
Deconstructing the Ladder Network Architecture
ICML 2016
Dynamic Capacity Networks
ICML 2016
Generating Factoid Questions With Recurrent Neural Networks: The 30M Factoid Question-Answer Corpus
ACL 2016
Towards End-to-End Speech Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Interspeech 2016
Describing Videos by Exploiting Temporal Structure
ICCV 2015
Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
ICML 2015
Generative Adversarial Nets
NeurIPS 2014
Maxout Networks
ICML 2013
Multi-Prediction Deep Boltzmann Machines
NeurIPS 2013
Texture Modeling with Convolutional Spike-and-Slab RBMs and Deep Extensions
AISTATS 2013
A Spike and Slab Restricted Boltzmann Machine
AISTATS 2011
Tempered Markov Chain Monte Carlo for training of Restricted Boltzmann Machines
AISTATS 2010
Why Does Unsupervised Pre-training Help Deep Learning?
AISTATS 2010
Why Does Unsupervised Pre-training Help Deep Learning?
JMLR 2010
Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and Obstacle Detection
RSS 2005