Writing

Research, explained from the inside.

Short essays about the questions, design choices, and intuitions behind my work. These articles complement the formal papers; they do not replace them.

August 05, 2026 · 6 min read

Exploration Needs Disagreement: Noise, Priors, and Bootstrapped DQN

Why ensemble diversity is not a cosmetic property but a mechanism for deep exploration.

Deep reinforcement learningExplorationDQN

August 04, 2026 · 6 min read

What Should a Representation Remember When the World Is Partially Observable?

Partial observability turns representation learning from image compression into an inference problem.

Reinforcement learningPartial observabilityState representation

May 01, 2024 · 7 min read

The Unbalanced Atlas: Why Representation Spaces Need More Than One Local View

An intuitive account of our ICLR 2024 work on manifold-aware self-supervised state representation learning.

Self-supervised learningManifoldsICLR 2024