The busiest workshops on the second day were World Models: Understanding, Modelling and Scaling Reasoning and Planning for Large Language Models, and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: Challenges in Applied Deep Learning (based on conference app stats).
Tim Rocktäschel (invited talk, Saturday)
The World Models workshop was packed, often with standing room only available. In one talk, Tim Rocktäschel and Jack Parker-Holder continued on from Rocktäschel’s keynote on Google DeepMind’s Genie and Genie 2 earlier in the week.
Jürgen Schmidhuber made a surprise appearance at the afternoon panel. The group discussed the relationship between world models and agents, representations, interestingness, open-endedness, and compression, as well as the importance of real-world interaction for building relevant world models.