As the current Dovetail research fellowship comes to a close, the fellows are giving talks on their projects. All are welcome to join! Unlike the previous cohort talks, these talks will be scheduled one at a time. This is partly because there are too many to do all in one day, and partly because the ending dates for several of the fellows are spread out over time.
The easiest way to keep track of the schedule is to subscribe to the public Dovetail google calendar. I’ll also list them here in this post, which I’ll update as more talks get scheduled.
Santiago Cifuentes—General Agents Contain World Models, even if they are non-deterministic and the world is partially observable.
In this talk we will present some concrete extensions of the results from https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622. More precisely, we will extend their result 1 for non-deterministic agents and partially observable environments.
January 31 (Saturday) 2000 GMT/1200 PT
Léo Cymbalista—An introduction to Computational Mechanics
February 7 (Saturday) 1700 GMT/0900 PT
Winter Cross—Robust Finite Policies are Nontrivially Structured
Upcoming Dovetail fellow talks & discussion
As the current Dovetail research fellowship comes to a close, the fellows are giving talks on their projects. All are welcome to join! Unlike the previous cohort talks, these talks will be scheduled one at a time. This is partly because there are too many to do all in one day, and partly because the ending dates for several of the fellows are spread out over time.
The easiest way to keep track of the schedule is to subscribe to the public Dovetail google calendar. I’ll also list them here in this post, which I’ll update as more talks get scheduled.
All talks will be on Zoom at this link.
January 31 (Saturday) 1800 GMT/1000 PT
Santiago Cifuentes—General Agents Contain World Models, even if they are non-deterministic and the world is partially observable.
In this talk we will present some concrete extensions of the results from https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622. More precisely, we will extend their result 1 for non-deterministic agents and partially observable environments.
January 31 (Saturday) 2000 GMT/1200 PT
Léo Cymbalista—An introduction to Computational Mechanics
February 7 (Saturday) 1700 GMT/0900 PT
Winter Cross—Robust Finite Policies are Nontrivially Structured
February 12 (Thursday) 1600 GMT/0800 PT
Margot Stakenborg—World Models
February 17 (Tuesday) 1500 GMT/0700 PT
Guillermo Martin—Reward Hypothesis
More to come!