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Owen Oertell

5 accepted papers

2025

Convergence of Consistency Model with Multistep Sampling under General Data Assumptions

ICML 2025poster

Diffusion models accomplish remarkable success in data generation tasks across various domains. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally expensive. Consistency models are proposed to learn consistency functions to map from noise to data directly, which allows one-step fast data gen…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Scaling Offline RL via Efficient and Expressive Shortcut Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion and flow models have emerged as powerful generative approaches capable of modeling diverse and multimodal behavior. However, applying these models to offline RL remains challenging due to the iterative nature of their noise sampling processes, making policy optimization difficult. In this…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

More Benefits of Being Distributional: Second-Order Bounds for Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2024poster

In this paper, we prove that Distributional Reinforcement Learning (DistRL), which learns the return distribution, can obtain second-order bounds in both online and offline RL in general settings with function approximation. Second-order bounds are instance-dependent bounds that scale with the varia…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

REBEL: Reinforcement Learning via Regressing Relative Rewards

NeurIPS 2024poster

While originally developed for continuous control problems, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has emerged as the work-horse of a variety of reinforcement learning (RL) applications, including the fine-tuning of generative models. Unfortunately, PPO requires multiple heuristics to enable stable conv…

2024

TurboHopp: Accelerated Molecule Scaffold Hopping with Consistency Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Navigating the vast chemical space of druggable compounds is a formidable challenge in drug discovery, where generative models are increasingly employed to identify viable candidates. Conditional 3D structure-based drug design (3D-SBDD) models, which take into account complex three-dimensional inter…