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Nicolas Gontier

4 accepted papers

2026

Privileged Information Distillation for Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Training-time privileged information (PI) can enable language models to succeed on tasks they would otherwise fail, making it a powerful tool for reinforcement learning in hard, long-horizon settings. However, transferring capabilities learned with PI to policies that must act without it at inferenc…

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2025

How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language model (LLM) agents for web interfaces have advanced rapidly, yet open-source systems still lag behind proprietary agents. Bridging this gap is key to enabling customizable, efficient, and privacy-preserving agents. Two challenges hinder progress: the reproducibility issues in RL and L…

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2025

Seq-VCR: Preventing Collapse in Intermediate Transformer Representations for Enhanced Reasoning

ICLR 2025poster

Decoder-only Transformers often struggle with complex reasoning tasks, particularly arithmetic reasoning requiring multiple sequential operations. In this work, we identify representation collapse in the model’s intermediate layers as a key factor limiting their reasoning capabilities. To address th…

2020

Measuring Systematic Generalization in Neural Proof Generation with Transformers

NeurIPS 2020poster

We are interested in understanding how well Transformer language models (TLMs) can perform reasoning tasks when trained on knowledge encoded in the form of natural language. We investigate their systematic generalization abilities on a logical reasoning task in natural language, which involves reaso…