Will Dabney
43 papers · 2017–2025 · 7 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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deep reinforcement learning
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reinforcement learning
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value function
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return distribution
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representation learning
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temporal difference learning
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policy improvement
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Papers
A Unifying Framework for Action-Conditional Self-Predictive Reinforcement Learning
AISTATS 2025
Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior
ICML 2025
Optimizing Return Distributions with Distributional Dynamic Programming
JMLR 2025
A Distributional Analogue to the Successor Representation
ICML 2024
An Analysis of Quantile Temporal-Difference Learning
JMLR 2024
Near-Minimax-Optimal Distributional Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model
NeurIPS 2024
Normalization and effective learning rates in reinforcement learning
NeurIPS 2024
Bootstrapped Representations in Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2023
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Plasticity Injection
NeurIPS 2023
Quantile Credit Assignment
ICML 2023
Representations and Exploration for Deep Reinforcement Learning using Singular Value Decomposition
ICML 2023
Settling the Reward Hypothesis
ICML 2023
The Statistical Benefits of Quantile Temporal-Difference Learning for Value Estimation
ICML 2023
Understanding Plasticity in Neural Networks
ICML 2023
Understanding Self-Predictive Learning for Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2023
Generalised Policy Improvement with Geometric Policy Composition
ICML 2022
Learning Dynamics and Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2022
On the Expressivity of Markov Reward (Extended Abstract)
IJCAI 2022
The Nature of Temporal Difference Errors in Multi-step Distributional Reinforcement Learning
NeurIPS 2022
Understanding and Preventing Capacity Loss in Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2022
Counterfactual Credit Assignment in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2021
On the Effect of Auxiliary Tasks on Representation Dynamics
AISTATS 2021
On the Expressivity of Markov Reward
NeurIPS 2021
Revisiting Peng’s Q($λ$) for Modern Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2021
Temporally-Extended ε-Greedy Exploration
ICLR 2021
The Difficulty of Passive Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning
NeurIPS 2021
The Value-Improvement Path: Towards Better Representations for Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2021
Adaptive Trade-Offs in Off-Policy Learning
AISTATS 2020
Conditional Importance Sampling for Off-Policy Learning
AISTATS 2020
Fast Task Inference with Variational Intrinsic Successor Features
ICLR 2020
Revisiting Fundamentals of Experience Replay
ICML 2020
A Geometric Perspective on Optimal Representations for Reinforcement Learning
NeurIPS 2019
Hindsight Credit Assignment
NeurIPS 2019
Recurrent Experience Replay in Distributed Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2019
Statistics and Samples in Distributional Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2019
The Termination Critic
AISTATS 2019
An Analysis of Categorical Distributional Reinforcement Learning
AISTATS 2018
Autoregressive Quantile Networks for Generative Modeling
ICML 2018
Distributed Distributional Deterministic Policy Gradients
ICLR 2018
Implicit Quantile Networks for Distributional Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2018
The Reactor: A fast and sample-efficient Actor-Critic agent for Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2018
A Distributional Perspective on Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2017
Successor Features for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
NeurIPS 2017