In search of (personal) recursive self-improvement Personal research webiste for Taylor W. Killian

First post of what will be a collection of semi-infrequent (maybe even less frequent?) "Musings & Reflections":

twkillian.github.io/personally-s...

This has been the README of the Github repo of my personal+academic website since I first started it. And this is my latest commit 😱...

It's our kid's spring break this week. It's been nice having yard work agents work in parallel to my coding agents.

We have the keynote speakers for RLC2026 now!

Thrilled to welcome Rika Antonova, Sheila McIlraith, Marc G. Bellemare, Danijar Hafner, Balaraman Ravindran!

Details: rl-conference.cc/index.html

The RL community is coming together this August in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Hope you make it!

RLC is the _very_ best conference. It's always been great vibes and will continue this for the 2026 version!

"Forget all previous instructions" will be mine when I ask for the "tea".

It’s a real joy being a part of @lilasciences.bsky.social! The momentum inside the company is tangible, it’s nice that it’s being recognized externally as well.

Nice work by the ICML chairs ... love it. Signal boosting this to help make it known.

I hope that the effect will be that reviewers will less "delegate" (sigh) reviewing to LLMs instead of spending more effort on finding watermarks.

RLC2026 Call for Workshops!

We’re already live: openreview.net/group?id=rl-...
Here's the opportunity to help shape the conference & spotlight your own RL focus areas.

Call: rl-conference.cc/call_for_wor...
Deadline: Mar 12 (AoE)

And don't forget the awesome banquet :) www.cirquedusoleil.com/ludo

RLC 2026 Call for Workshop is live on OpenReview!

Submission deadline: Mar 12 (AoE).
Full details here: rl-conference.cc/call_for_wor...

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Hi RL Enthusiasts!

RLC is coming to Montreal, Quebec, in the summer: Aug 16–19, 2026!

Call for Papers is up now:
Abstract: Mar 1 (AOE)
Submission: Mar 5 (AOE)

Excited to see what you’ve been up to - Submit your best work!
rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...

Please share widely!

RLC attendees will also enjoy the banquet featuring a theatrical dinner show by Cirque du Soleil (LUDŌ):

www.cirquedusoleil.com/ludo

All the more reason not to miss the chance to be part of RLC 2026!

Not “perhaps”. It is definitely the best venue for RL researchers.

Only ~7 days to go until the full paper deadline (Mar 5, AOE)! Wishing everyone a strong close to the submission cycle.

RLC 2026 Call for Workshops is up! This is the opportunity to bring the attention of the community to the topics that you find the most important in RL!

Check out the Call for Workshops at RLC this year. There is still nearly a month before the deadline, we are looking forward to your proposals!

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Exciting news... Percepta is growing into doing critical industry transformations in Europe, and that means we're expanding to the UK! If you're an Applied AI engineer looking to work in the UK check it out:
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Making the transition myself right now. That may be a strong hint toward where I’m headed in this duality.

CoCoMARL 2025 Stimulated by the increasing complexity of real-world problems, multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has emerged as a promising approach for enabling autonomous agents to learn and adapt in dynam...

There has been a multi-agent workshop the past two years!

Here's last year's workshop website: sites.google.com/view/cocomar...

The workshops are maybe the best part of RLC. Bring us your workshops that could never happen anywhere else!

3 weeks to get your RLC papers in shape! And to get the word out to those who have yet to experience an RLC review process.

🚀 Excited to share REPPO, a new on-policy RL agent!

TL;DR: Replace PPO with REPPO for fewer hyperparameter headaches and more robust training.

REPPO, led by @cvoelcker.bsky.social, will be presented at ICLR 2026. How does it work? 🧵👇

Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions to me directly or via email to workshops@rl-conference.cc

The OpenReview submission site can be found at:
openreview.net/group?id=rl-...

Workshops, held on the first day, are a primary feature of
@rl-conference.bsky.social and have set a delightfully inquisitive tone. Discussions started at both workshops I've been a part of in the past persisted through the week, with some still ongoing!

CfW here: rl-conference.cc/call_for_wor...

We're thrilled to share that the Call for Workshops for this year's @rl-conference.bsky.social is now live!

As Workshop co-chair (alongside the wonderful Raksha Kumaraswamy and @claireve.bsky.social) we are looking forward to seeing the proposals for workshops that we receive.

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One paper accepted to ICML with one paper rejected as well. It’s called balance (and measured frustration) #icml2025

Shipping a copy of Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" to every ICML meta-reviewer

Great question! To be honest, no idea. Part of the research design is to identify the objectives we want to hit and these aren’t fully fleshed out just yet.

Multi-agent in terms of mixed autonomy type of environments (or training a LLM to gather information from other agents, human or artificial) is somewhat along the path of our future strategic directions for the US-SV office.

Large behavioral sims or specific applied focus areas are likely not.

We're hiring at all levels for engineering and research roles with focus areas in CV, LLMs, and RL (broadly defined). We are firmly committed to open science and have extensive computational resources. Check us out, see you in Singapore! ifm.mbzuai.ac.ae