Pablo Samuel Castro
@pcastr
Señor swesearcher @ Google DeepMind. Adjunct prof @ U de Montreal & Mila. Musician. From 🇪🇨 living in 🇨🇦.
thrilled to finally put out the second release from my musical project "the 45s" with my buddy JS Diallo! (links in thread)
First #runconference was great! Come by tomorrow at same time (7am) for another great run! #icml2025
At #ICML2025 ? Like running? 🏃🏾🤖 Come to the first #runconference tomorrow (Tuesday) morning! We'll meet at Canada Place Welcome Center (pin linked below) at 7am and will run for about an hour. Very inclusive, so all speeds welcome! maps.app.goo.gl/LxyinYmXXXPz6V…
At #ICML2025 ? Like running? 🏃🏾🤖 Come to the first #runconference tomorrow (Tuesday) morning! We'll meet at Canada Place Welcome Center (pin linked below) at 7am and will run for about an hour. Very inclusive, so all speeds welcome! maps.app.goo.gl/LxyinYmXXXPz6V…
Looking forward to this workshop @RL_Conference ! I wish I could clone myself, because there are so many good workshops that will be happening at the same time
We’re excited to announce our next speaker: Pablo Samuel Castro from @GoogleDeepMind! @pcastr focuses on fundamental RL research. He will make the case that the Atari benchmark remains relevant for advancing our scientific understanding of RL.🕹️ See if you agree @RL_Conference!
Although I still have a Spotify account (mostly because my kids use it), I've personally switched almost entirely to listening to @SIRIUSXM . Human DJs FTW!
Human cultural replacement. Not just AI music but AI listeners too - a fake and fraudulent way for Spotify to generate Ad revenue. Who needs humans when bots can click on links and trick advertisers into paying for fake engagement.
it's extra work, but i really enjoy making creative posters. these are the two i made for #ICML2025 last week. i just sent another poster to get printed with a design i'm excited to hang on the poster boards @RL_Conference next month! 😃
One of my favorite things at #ICML2025 was seeing so many Ecuadorians! These were taken at the @_LXAI workshop at the start of the week. 🇪🇨
Last #runconference at #ICML2025 (at least for me). Was great running with new and old friends this week, and looking forward to another set of runs at @RL_Conference in August!
Third #runconference ! Last one (for me) tomorrow, join us at 7am in tourist info booth just outside convention center!
Third #runconference ! Last one (for me) tomorrow, join us at 7am in tourist info booth just outside convention center!
Second #runconference also fun, beautiful running next to ocean! Join us tomorrow at 7am again, same place!
Second #runconference also fun, beautiful running next to ocean! Join us tomorrow at 7am again, same place!
First #runconference was great! Come by tomorrow at same time (7am) for another great run! #icml2025
Come by West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 #W-702 at 11am to talk to @johanobandoc and me about churn and plasticity loss in RL!
(1/8)🔥Excited to share that our paper “Mitigating Plasticity Loss in Continual Reinforcement Learning by Reducing Churn” has been accepted to #ICML2025!🎉 RL agents struggle to adapt in continual learning. Why? We trace the problem to something subtle: churn. 👇🧵@Mila_Quebec
Had a great time presenting our work and connecting with so many brilliant researchers! happy to chat more, feel free to reach out with any questions! 🥳 #ICML2025
Happening now!
Starting now, come chat with @ankit_s_anand and me about using LLMs for discovering cognitive models! West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 #W-408 #ICML2025
Can LLMs be used to discover interpretable models of human and animal behavior?🤔 Turns out: yes! Thrilled to share our latest preprint where we used FunSearch to automatically discover symbolic cognitive models of behavior. 1/12
Happening now!
Come by West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 W-711 at 11am to talk to @WalterMayor_T @johanobandoc and me about the impact of parallelized data collection for training RL agents! #ICML2025
The first work led by @pcastr , @neuro_kim and @kevinmiller10 where we apply LLMs for discovering new learning models in neuro-science. See details here and poster at West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 #W-408 from 4:30 p.m. PDT — 7 p.m. PDT, icml.cc/virtual/2025/p… (2|5)
Come by West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 W-711 at 11am to talk to @WalterMayor_T @johanobandoc and me about the impact of parallelized data collection for training RL agents! #ICML2025
The Impact of On-Policy Parallelized Data Collection on Deep Reinforcement Learning Networks thrilled to share our #ICML2025 paper led by @WalterMayor_T & @johanobandoc , with @AaronCourville , where we explore how data collection affects agents in parallelized setups. 1/
.@WalterMayor_T presenting our paper at the LatinX in AI workshop
In the first oral sessions (10-10:45) @WalterMayor_T will present our paper (co-lead with @johanobandoc ) 2/4 x.com/pcastr/status/…