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Hi, I'm Kevin! Welcome to my webpage. I am a PhD student at Berkeley AI Research under Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine. Before that I did my undergrad + master's at MIT CSAIL, under Phillip Isola. My interests are in understanding deep learning and scalable self-improving systems.

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Blog 1 year ago
Alchemist's Notes on Deep Learning
I recently compiled a more cleaned-up set of explanations and implementations on topics relating to deep learning and generative modelling. Check them out at https://notes.kvfrans.com/
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Blog 3 years ago
Small-Research: Tanh Activations with DDPG
When implementing DDPG-style policy extraction, we often use a tanh normalizer to bound the action space. That way the policy does not attempt to output something OOD when the Q-function is only trained on actions in -1, 1.dist = agent.actor(batch'observa
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Blog 3 years ago
Small-Research: Policy Extraction in IQL
Insight: IQL-AWR agents on 'maze2d' converge to a standard deviation of 0.4, which is much higher than expected.Hypothesis: The KL constraint of AWR prevents it from learning Gaussian policies that are centered around the optimal action.Conclusion: In dat
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