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Matthew Macfarlane

4 accepted papers

2026

Gradient-Based Program Synthesis with Neurally Interpreted Languages

ICLR 2026poster

A central challenge in program induction has long been the trade-off between symbolic and neural approaches. Symbolic methods offer compositional generalisation and data efficiency, yet their scalability is constrained by formalisms such as domain-specific languages (DSLs), which are labor-intensive…

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2024

Jumanji: a Diverse Suite of Scalable Reinforcement Learning Environments in JAX

ICLR 2024poster

Open-source reinforcement learning (RL) environments have played a crucial role in driving progress in the development of AI algorithms. In modern RL research, there is a need for simulated environments that are performant, scalable, and modular to enable their utilization in a wider range of potent…

2024

SPO: Sequential Monte Carlo Policy Optimisation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Leveraging planning during learning and decision-making is central to the long-term development of intelligent agents. Recent works have successfully combined tree-based search methods and self-play learning mechanisms to this end. However, these methods typically face scaling challenges due to the…

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