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Firas Laakom

5 accepted papers

2026

Huxley-G\"odel Machine: Human-Level Coding Agent Development by an Approximation of the Optimal Self-Improving Machine

ICLR 2026oral

Recent studies operationalize self-improvement through coding agents that edit their own codebases, grow a tree of self-modifications through expansion strategies that favor higher software engineering benchmark performance, considering that this implies more promising subsequent self-modifications…

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2025

FACTS: A Factored State-Space Framework for World Modelling

ICLR 2025poster

World modelling is essential for understanding and predicting the dynamics of complex systems by learning both spatial and temporal dependencies. However, current frameworks, such as Transformers and selective state-space models like Mambas, exhibit limitations in efficiently encoding spatial and te…

2025

Fairness Overfitting in Machine Learning: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

ICML 2025poster

Despite substantial progress in promoting fairness in high-stake applications using machine learning models, existing methods often modify the training process, such as through regularizers or other interventions, but lack formal guarantees that fairness achieved during training will generalize to u…

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2025

PhysGym: Benchmarking LLMs in Interactive Physics Discovery with Controlled Priors

NeurIPS 2025poster

Evaluating the scientific discovery capabilities of large language model based agents, particularly how they cope with varying environmental complexity and utilize prior knowledge, requires specialized benchmarks currently lacking in the landscape. To address this gap, we introduce PhysGym, a novel…

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2023

WLD-Reg: A Data-Dependent Within-Layer Diversity Regularizer

AAAI 2023technical

Neural networks are composed of multiple layers arranged in a hierarchical structure jointly trained with a gradient-based optimization, where the errors are back-propagated from the last layer back to the first one. At each optimization step, neurons at a given layer receive feedback from neurons b…