Safa Alver

PhD student, McGill University

Joined

May 2020

Names

Safa Alver (Preferred)

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

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Career & Education History

PhD student

McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2019 – Present

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Expertise

Reinforcement Learning

2019 – Present

Publications

Consciousness-Inspired Spatio-Temporal Abstractions for Better Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
Harry Zhao, Safa Alver, Harm van Seijen, Romain Laroche, Doina Precup, Yoshua Bengio
- Sys2-Reasoning Poster
- Readers: Everyone
An Attentive Approach for Building Partial Reasoning Agents from Pixels
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
A Look at Value-Based Decision-Time vs. Background Planning Methods Across Different Settings
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- EWRL17
- Readers: Everyone
An Attentive Approach for Building Partial Reasoning Agents from Pixels
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- EWRL17
- Readers: Everyone
Consciousness-Inspired Spatio-Temporal Abstractions for Better Generalization in Reinforcement Learning
Harry Zhao, Safa Alver, Harm van Seijen, Romain Laroche, Doina Precup, Yoshua Bengio
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Minimal Value-Equivalent Partial Models for Scalable and Robust Planning in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- 2023 (modified: 22 Feb 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
How Should I Plan? A Performance Comparison of Decision-Time vs. Background Planning
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- 22 Sept 2022 (modified: 13 Feb 2023)
- ICLR 2023 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Minimal Value-Equivalent Partial Models for Scalable and Robust Planning in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding Decision-Time vs. Background Planning in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- 2022 (modified: 22 Feb 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Constructing a Good Behavior Basis for Transfer using Generalized Policy Updates
Safa Alver, Doina Precup
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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