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Pascal R. Van der Vaart

4 accepted papers

2026

Contextual Similarity Distillation: Ensemble Uncertainties with a Single Model

ICLR 2026poster

Uncertainty quantification is a critical aspect of reinforcement learning and deep learning, with numerous applications ranging from efficient exploration and stable offline reinforcement learning to outlier detection in medical diagnostics. The scale of modern neural networks, however, complicates…

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2026

Universal Value-Function Uncertainties

ICLR 2026poster

Estimating epistemic uncertainty in value functions is a crucial challenge for many aspects of reinforcement learning (RL), including efficient exploration, safe decision-making, and offline RL. While deep ensembles provide a robust method for quantifying value uncertainty, they come with significan…

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2025

Value Improved Actor Critic Algorithms

NeurIPS 2025poster

To learn approximately optimal acting policies for decision problems, modern Actor Critic algorithms rely on deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to parameterize the acting policy and greedification operators to iteratively improve it. The reliance on DNNs suggests an improvement that is gradient based, whi…

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