Sami Nur Islam

MS student, School of Computer Science, McGill University

Joined

January 2024

Names

Sami Nur Islam (Preferred)

,

Mohammad Sami Nur Islam

Emails

****@mail.mcgill.ca (Confirmed)

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****@mcgill.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

MS student

School of Computer Science, McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2025 – Present

Undergrad student

School of Computer Science, McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2021 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Reinforcement Learning

Present

Publications

Langevin Soft Actor-Critic: Efficient Exploration through Uncertainty-Driven Critic Learning
Haque Ishfaq, Guangyuan Wang, Sami Nur Islam, Doina Precup
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scavenging Hyena: Distilling Transformers into Long Convolution Models
Tokiniaina Raharison Ralambomihanta, Shahrad Mohammadzadeh, Sami Nur Islam, Wassim Jabbour, Laurence Liang
- ES-FoMo-II 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Code as Reward: Empowering Reinforcement Learning with VLMs
David Venuto, Mohammad Sami Nur Islam, Martin Klissarov, Doina Precup, Sherry Yang, Ankit Anand
- ICML 2024 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors