Matthew Schlegel

RL and ML in real world applications. PhD. Musician. Celiac. On the search for the perfect espresso. Currently working on hard things @ucalgary.

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

Very excited to have contributed to this paper @icmlconf lead by @DikshantShehmar!

We explore if Laplacian representations could be a linchpin for planning with learned models. This work could unlock the data efficient future often promised from model-based planning!

[Marlos C. Machado @MarlosCMachado]

Here's another paper we'll be presenting at ICML'26 - @icmlconf.

Laplacian Representations for Decision-Time Planning
https://t.co/0UEIuDxS47

This work was led by @DikshantShehmar, and he'll be presenting on 8th July at 2 pm, Korea time.

This video summarizes the idea well ↓

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

At #NeurIPS2025 come check out our poster in the TCCAI workshop at 4:00pm on Sunday! In this preliminary work, we are thinking about how to apply various resolution-invariant models to power grid data to accelerate simulations with renewables!
https://t.co/OOPtivXe9k

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

Hey! @modl_ai is pretty cool and we are doing really cool things! This is a brilliant opportunity to do a PhD with Modl and work with some really fantastic researchers! If you have any questions feel free to reach out!

[Sebastian Risi @risi1979]

Happy to announce we have an industrial PhD position available at @ITUkbh in collaboration with @modl_ai on improving automated video game testing via machine learning 🎮🐞🤖 You'll be advised by me with support from @togelius and @yannakakis. Ping me if interested!

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

@HeyStephB Thanks! What a small world! I knew your partner did work in games, but didn't know he worked for Julian!

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

Now that it is public! Happy to be joining Modl! Really looking forward to working with such a great team!

[modl.ai @modl_ai]

👋A warm welcome to Matthew to modl! He is our latest addition to our Technical Staff Team in Research with a wealth of knowledge in RL and Deep Learning, with a particular focus on agent perception. We're absolutely delighted to have you with us, @mattschleg! 🌟

[Dan Roy @roydanroy]

Someone please start a petition to leave the main paper + supplement as one PDF for NeurIPS. This nonsense stops this year.

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

To be brief: The paper provides new ideas on how to evaluate recurrent agents in the reinforcement learning domain, future potential directions in designing recurrent architectures for continual decision making (i.e. RL), and a ton more including the appendix!

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

New paper published at TMLR in collaboration with Volodmyr Tkachuk, Adam White, and @white_martha! Done all in the @rlai_lab and @AmiiThinks labs!

Check it out: https://t.co/YowrwGF8KT

To be brief, we do a deep empirical investigation on a single axis of choice in RNNs for RL.

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

On the job market! Looking for Post Docs and Research Scientist positions that will broaden my views on RL and machine intelligence! My research is centered on understanding and developing multi-prediction systems and agent-state construction in RL.

CV: https://t.co/ICGtY5pVmw

[yan @bcrypt]

just made a "decentralized" "alternative" to twitter; everyone should go "join" it

to make an account: fork https://t.co/vv271yPEMr
to tweet: git commit --allow-empty
to follow someone: git remote add <alias> <their fork url>
to retweet: git cherry-pick <their "tweet">

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

@openreviewnet Why do I have to title every comment...

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

To those submitting papers to venues that allow for paper updates in response to reviews: Please clearly mark what edits are made from the original version so reviewers can easily spot changes and provide more feedback. I mark all text in red that is different from the original.

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

In #Denver for a bit. Any recommendations for coffee shops? @5280coffeelife maybe?

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

You know I’m getting ready to graduate when my department’s new building is almost done 😂😂.

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

@SoloGen I've used Julia for all my projects for the past 4.5 years (previously C++ and some Python). Still a lot to improve on in terms of usability (startup time, package maturity, linting). But the low level control, multiple dispatch, and language focus on numerics is worth it to me.

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

@AshlynBernier @AmiiThinks I know. Was skeptical at first, but I think it is pretty killer!

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

At @AmiiThinks #AIWeek2022 ? Come check out some of the work we are doing in Adam White's research group! Poster session A starts at 11:30!

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

My time has finally come to review a #TMLR paper 👀.

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

@tw_killian @avt_im That is who I was remembering! Tagged him in the thread! Thanks @tw_killian !

[Matthew Schlegel @mattschleg]

I'm starting to write my actual thesis document. Awhile ago, I saw someone work on this in public (I can't remember who unfortunately, but do tag them in the comments!) and wanted to also do this. You will be able to see my progress at https://t.co/c9qtpwXXhX.