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Johan Obando-Ceron
PhD student, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal
Joined
October 2021
Names
Johan Obando-Ceron
(Preferred)
,
Johan Samir Obando Ceron
,
Johan Obando Ceron
Emails
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
Personal Links
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Career & Education History
PhD student
Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal
(mila.umontreal.ca)
2023
–
Present
MS student
Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal
(mila.umontreal.ca)
2021
–
2023
MS student
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
(cuao.edu.co)
2018
–
2020
Undergrad student
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
(cuao.edu.co)
2012
–
2017
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisor
Aaron Courville
2023
–
Present
PhD Advisor
Pablo Samuel Castro
2020
–
Present
Coauthor
Marc G Bellemare
2021
–
2023
Expertise
Reinforcement Learning
Present
Deep Learning
Present
Publications
Stable Deep Reinforcement Learning via Isotropic Gaussian Representations
Ali Saheb Pasand
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Aaron Courville
,
Pouya Bashivan
,
Pablo Samuel Castro
LXAI @ ICML 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation
Israfel Salazar
,
Manuel Fernández Burda
,
Shayekh Bin Islam
,
Arshia Soltani Moakhar
,
Shivalika Singh
,
Fabian Farestam
,
Angelika Romanou
,
Danylo Boiko
,
Dipika Khullar
,
Mike Zhang
,
Dominik Krzemiński
,
Jekaterina Novikova
,
Luísa Shimabucoro
,
Joseph Marvin Imperial
,
Rishabh Maheshwary
,
Sharad Duwal
,
Alfonso Amayuelas
,
Swati Rajwal
,
Jebish Purbey
,
Ahmed Ruby
et al. (25 additional authors not shown)
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Simplicial Embeddings Improve Sample Efficiency in Actor–Critic Agents
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Walter Mayor
,
Samuel Lavoie
,
Scott Fujimoto
,
Aaron Courville
,
Pablo Samuel Castro
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Grounding Computer Use Agents on Human Demonstrations
Aarash Feizi
,
Shravan Nayak
,
Xiangru Jian
,
Kevin Qinghong Lin
,
Kaixin Li
,
Rabiul Awal
,
Xing Han Lù
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Juan A. Rodriguez
,
Nicolas Chapados
,
David Vazquez
,
Adriana Romero-Soriano
,
Reihaneh Rabbany
,
Perouz Taslakian
,
Christopher Pal
,
Spandana Gella
,
Sai Rajeswar
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Asymmetric Proximal Policy Optimization: mini-critics boost LLM reasoning
Jiashun Liu
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Han Lu
,
Yancheng He
,
Weixun Wang
,
Wenbo Su
,
Bo Zheng
,
Pablo Samuel Castro
,
Aaron Courville
,
Ling Pan
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
A Comedy of Estimators: On KL Regularization in RL Training of LLMs
Vedant Shah
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Vineet Jain
,
Brian R. Bartoldson
,
Bhavya Kailkhura
,
Sarthak Mittal
,
Glen Berseth
,
Pablo Samuel Castro
,
Yoshua Bengio
,
Nikolay Malkin
,
Moksh Jain
,
Siddarth Venkatraman
,
Aaron Courville
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Recursive Self-Aggregation Unlocks Deep Thinking in Large Language Models
Siddarth Venkatraman
,
Vineet Jain
,
Sarthak Mittal
,
Vedant Shah
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Yoshua Bengio
,
Brian R. Bartoldson
,
Bhavya Kailkhura
,
Guillaume Lajoie
,
Glen Berseth
,
Nikolay Malkin
,
Moksh Jain
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Deep Thinking via Recursive Self-Aggregation
Siddarth Venkatraman
,
Vineet Jain
,
Sarthak Mittal
,
Moksh Jain
,
Vedant Shah
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Yoshua Bengio
,
Brian R. Bartoldson
,
Bhavya Kailkhura
,
Guillaume Lajoie
,
Glen Berseth
,
Nikolay Malkin
FoRLM 2025
Readers:
Everyone
Evaluating In Silico Creativity: An Expert Review of AI Chess Compositions
Vivek Veeriah
,
Federico Barbero
,
Marcus Chiam
,
Xidong Feng
,
Michael D Dennis
,
Ryan Pachauri
,
Thomas Tumiel
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Jiaxin Shi
,
Shaobo Hou
,
Satinder Singh
,
Nenad Tomasev
,
Tom Zahavy
NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025
Readers:
Everyone
Stable Gradients for Stable Learning at Scale in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Roger Creus Castanyer
,
Johan Obando-Ceron
,
Lu Li
,
Pierre-Luc Bacon
,
Glen Berseth
,
Aaron Courville
,
Pablo Samuel Castro
NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
Readers:
Everyone
View all 33 publications
Co-Authors
Aarash Feizi
Aaron Courville
Aart J.C. Bik
Abraham Diress
Aditya Kumar Dalmia
Adriana Romero-Soriano
Ahmed Ruby
Alfonso Amayuelas
Ali Saheb Pasand
Amir Yazdanbakhsh
Andre Guarnier De Mitri
Angelika Romanou
Anna Sotnikova
Antoine Bosselut
Arshia Soltani Moakhar
Ayush Kumar Tarun
Azmine Toushik Wasi
Azril Hafizi Amirudin
Bardia soltani moakhar
Beyza Ermis
Bhavya Kailkhura
Bo Zheng
Brian R. Bartoldson
Börje F. Karlsson
Christopher Klamm
View all 177 co-authors