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Ian Osband is a Research scientist at OpenAI (ex DeepMind, Stanford) working on decision making under uncertainty.
We spoke about:
- Information theory and RL
- Exploration, epistemic uncertainty and joint predictions
- Epistemic Neural Networks and scaling to LLMs
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Reinforcement Learning, Bit by Bit
Xiuyuan Lu, Benjamin Van Roy, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Morteza Ibrahimi, Ian Osband, Zheng Wen
From Predictions to Decisions: The Importance of Joint Predictive Distributions
Zheng Wen, Ian Osband, Chao Qin, Xiuyuan Lu, Morteza Ibrahimi, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Mohammad Asghari, Benjamin Van Roy
Epistemic Neural Networks
Ian Osband, Zheng Wen, Seyed Mohammad Asghari, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Morteza Ibrahimi, Xiuyuan Lu, Benjamin Van Roy
Approximate Thompson Sampling via Epistemic Neural Networks
Ian Osband, Zheng Wen, Seyed Mohammad Asghari, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Morteza Ibrahimi, Xiuyuan Lu, Benjamin Van Roy
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Ian Osband is a Research scientist at OpenAI (ex DeepMind, Stanford) working on decision making under uncertainty.
We spoke about:
- Information theory and RL
- Exploration, epistemic uncertainty and joint predictions
- Epistemic Neural Networks and scaling to LLMs
Featured References
Reinforcement Learning, Bit by Bit
Xiuyuan Lu, Benjamin Van Roy, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Morteza Ibrahimi, Ian Osband, Zheng Wen
From Predictions to Decisions: The Importance of Joint Predictive Distributions
Zheng Wen, Ian Osband, Chao Qin, Xiuyuan Lu, Morteza Ibrahimi, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Mohammad Asghari, Benjamin Van Roy
Epistemic Neural Networks
Ian Osband, Zheng Wen, Seyed Mohammad Asghari, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Morteza Ibrahimi, Xiuyuan Lu, Benjamin Van Roy
Approximate Thompson Sampling via Epistemic Neural Networks
Ian Osband, Zheng Wen, Seyed Mohammad Asghari, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Morteza Ibrahimi, Xiuyuan Lu, Benjamin Van Roy
Additional References

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