collaborators

8 papers

cs.LG2026

Information-Based Exploration via Random Features for Reinforcement Learning

Waris Radji, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard

Representation learning has enabled classical exploration strategies to be extended to deep Reinforcement Learning (RL), but often makes algorithms more complex and theoretical gua…

cs.LG2026

Octax: Accelerated CHIP-8 Arcade Environments for Reinforcement Learning in JAX

Waris Radji, Thomas Michel, Hector Piteau

Reinforcement learning (RL) research requires diverse, challenging environments that are both tractable and scalable. While modern video games may offer rich dynamics, they are com…

cs.LG2026

Bandits for Efficient Experimentation: Adapting to Control Group, Preferences, and Context Drifts

Udvas Das, Waris Radji, Debabrota Basu +1

We consider a variant of the linear contextual stochastic multi-armed bandits, where the learner must provide recommendations to a group of users, each having its personalized pref…

cs.LG2026

Intrinsic-Energy Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures Induce Quasimetric Spaces

Anthony Kobanda, Waris Radji

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) aim to learn representations by predicting target embeddings from context embeddings, inducing a scalar compatibility energy in a l…

cs.LG2026

Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Projective Quasimetric Planning

Anthony Kobanda, Waris Radji, Mathieu Petitbois +2

Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning seeks to train agents to reach specified goals from previously collected trajectories. Scaling that promises to long-horizon tasks r…

cs.LG2025

How Hard is it to Confuse a World Model?

Waris Radji, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard

In reinforcement learning (RL) theory, the concept of most confusing instances is central to establishing regret lower bounds, that is, the minimal exploration needed to solve a pr…