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Nishanth Anand

@itsnva7

Final-year PhD student in AI at Mila (Quebec AI Institute) and McGill University w/ Doina Precup. Research: RL, continual RL, and neuro-inspired RL.

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I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧡

16.07.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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GitHub - NishanthVAnand/eligibility_state: Eligibility state experiments. Eligibility state experiments. Contribute to NishanthVAnand/eligibility_state development by creating an account on GitHub.

When I first started working with Doina as a master’s student 7 years ago, this was the first idea that I tried (github.com/NishanthVAna...). But, I gave up on it too soon!

I’m happy and pleased to see you explore this path in depth with a solid paper! E-traces are the best idea to come out of RL!!

17.07.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mila Launched Canada’s First AI Computing Cluster Dedicated to Academic Research | Mila Mila, in partnership with UniversitΓ© Laval and Calcul QuΓ©bec, officially launched TamIA, the first AI computing cluster specifically designed to support academic research in the country.

Introducing TamIA, the first AI computing cluster in Canada dedicated to academic research! A collaboration of Mila, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, CIFAR, Amii, @vectorinstitute.ai, Calcul QuΓ©bec, UniversitΓ© Laval, @ualberta.bsky.social and University of Toronto. mila.quebec/en/news/mila...

24.04.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This week, Mila researchers will present more than 90 papers at @iclr-conf.bsky.social in Singapore. Every day, we will share a schedule featuring Mila-affiliated presentations.
Day 1 πŸ‘‡ #ICLR2025
mila.quebec/en/news/foll...

23.04.2025 23:12 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Neat! What about two neural networks that have different architectures? Are there any metrics that you’re aware of could help compare them?

01.04.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Does this mean we can evaluate the representation quality of two different neutral networks and objectively say one is better than the other?

01.04.2025 19:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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We had a lab social and the mandatory pic after πŸ’œ

22.03.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I am hoping to contribute to this thread equally!

21.03.2025 23:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

add me too please: @itsnva7.bsky.social

17.03.2025 19:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0