Cornelius Braun

PhD Student at the Learning and Intelligent Systems Lab @TUBerlin. Intern @allen_ai. Working on discovering new things with machine learning and robots.

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

🚨The submission deadline of our workshop has been extended until 18th of June.
Find out more at: https://t.co/aaMTcHZ0vi

Looking forward to your contributions!

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

#RSS2026 Call for participants 📢

Super excited to announce our RSS 2026 Workshop: Sampling-Based Optimization for Robotics!

The workshop will be held on July 17 in Sydney.

More info: https://t.co/Vh44l4RUoL。

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

#RSS2026 Call for participants 📢

Super excited to announce our RSS 2026 Workshop: Sampling-Based Optimization for Robotics!

The workshop will be held on July 17 in Sydney.

More info: https://t.co/Vh44l4RUoL。

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

@chris_j_paxton @DJiafei Totally agree, felt like the first paper that really evaluated all these models side-by-side. I wonder, what happened to GR00T though?

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

@ClaBat9 you guys are fast! 🌬️ loks really interesting :-)

[TalkRL Podcast @TalkRLPodcast]

E71: Jake Beck, Alex Goldie, & Cornelius Braun on Sutton's OaK, Metalearning, LLMs, Squirrels @ @RL_Conference 2025
A few thoughts with @jakeABeck, @AlexDGoldie and @corbraun after @RichardSSutton's fascinating lecture on his OaK architecture at @UAlberta

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

@hbouammar @RL_Conference @ibrlworkshop Thank you! :-)

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

Just came back home from @RL_Conference and I really enjoyed it.

Summary: Too many great speakers to name them all, too many great people to name them all, and we won the Best Paper award at the @ibrlworkshop! 🏆

Thanks to all the great people :-)

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

📑Heres a preprint of the workshop paper for those who are interested: https://t.co/58UYkqPI7l

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

Also the official proceedings are already out too: https://t.co/YFULUDYxum :-)

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

Really enjoyed #UAI2025 in Rio last week!

Met a lot of great researchers, presented "Stein Variational Evolution Strategies" as an oral, and appreciated Copacabana.

Big thanks again to the organizers! Already looking forward to the next conferences in Brazil.🇧🇷

[uai2026 @UncertaintyInAI]

let's start day 4 with the oral session on optimization!
👉https://t.co/2kyIe9VC2i

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

You can check my slides here: https://t.co/SLJzyK1AdC

[Robert Lange @RobertTLange]

Introducing Stein Variational Evolution Strategies

Exciting new work on leveraging Stein Variational methods for discovering diverse solutions with ES 🦎

Work led by the amazing @corbraun 🤗 Check out his thread for many more details 🎨

🧑‍💻Code: https://t.co/B5RSE3ieUQ

📝 NB: https://t.co/bMwNXhPWN7

Credits @maxencefaldor 🙏

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

Dive into the details in the paper:
📄 Paper: https://t.co/ZCCA6973vf

Again, a big thanks to my collaborators on this!

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

I am beyond excited to share our new work: Stein Variational Evolution Strategies

I'm really excited about this for many reasons:
1. I got to collaborate with the amazing @RobertTLange and @Marc__Toussaint.
2. It will be an oral presentation at #UAI2025 next month!

A thread. 🧵

[Cornelius Braun @corbraun]

You may wonder: "But why not just run multiple CMA-ES in parallel?"

Well, the SVGD-inspired coordination is key!

It pushes the populations apart to find diverse, high-quality solutions, preventing them from all collapsing to a single mode. Our method finds the whole landscape.