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Blake Richards

5 accepted papers

2026

Interpreting Physics in Video World Models

ICML 2026poster

A long-standing question in physical reasoning is whether video-based models need to rely on factorized representations of physical variables in order to make physically accurate predictions, or whether they can implicitly represent such variables in a distributed manner. While modern video world mo…

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2022

Towards Scaling Difference Target Propagation by Learning Backprop Targets

ICML 2022spotlight

The development of biologically-plausible learning algorithms is important for understanding learning in the brain, but most of them fail to scale-up to real-world tasks, limiting their potential as explanations for learning by real brains. As such, it is important to explore learning algorithms tha…

2018

Assessing the Scalability of Biologically-Motivated Deep Learning Algorithms and Architectures

NeurIPS 2018poster

The backpropagation of error algorithm (BP) is impossible to implement in a real brain. The recent success of deep networks in machine learning and AI, however, has inspired proposals for understanding how the brain might learn across multiple layers, and hence how it might approximate BP. As of yet…