William F Whitney

Researcher, DeepMind

Joined

September 2016

Names

William F Whitney (Preferred)

William F. Whitney

William Whitney

Will Whitney

Emails

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

DeepMind (deepmind.com)

2021 – Present

PhD student

New York University (nyu.edu)

2016 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Kyunghyun Cho

2018 – 2021

PhD Advisor

Rob Fergus

2016 – 2018

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Value from Observations: Towards Large-Scale Imitation Learning via Self-Improvement
Michael Bloesch, Markus Wulfmeier, Philemon Brakel, Todor Davchev, Martina Zambelli, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Abbas Abdolmaleki, William F Whitney, Nicolas Heess, Roland Hafner, Martin Riedmiller
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Linear Transformer Topological Masking with Graph Random Features
Isaac Reid, Kumar Avinava Dubey, Deepali Jain, William F Whitney, Amr Ahmed, Joshua Ainslie, Alex Bewley, Mithun George Jacob, Aranyak Mehta, David Rendleman, Connor Schenck, Richard E. Turner, René Wagner, Adrian Weller, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Modeling the Real World with High-Density Visual Particle Dynamics
William F Whitney, Jake Varley, Deepali Jain, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Sumeet Singh, Vikas Sindhwani
- CoRL 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Learning rigid-body simulators over implicit shapes for large-scale scenes and vision
Yulia Rubanova, Tatiana Lopez-Guevara, Kelsey R Allen, William F Whitney, Kim Stachenfeld, Tobias Pfaff
- NeurIPS 2024 oral
- Readers: Everyone
Learning 3D Particle-based Simulators from RGB-D Videos
William F Whitney, Tatiana Lopez-Guevara, Tobias Pfaff, Yulia Rubanova, Thomas Kipf, Kim Stachenfeld, Kelsey R Allen
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Learning rigid dynamics with face interaction graph networks
Kelsey R Allen, Yulia Rubanova, Tatiana Lopez-Guevara, William F Whitney, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Peter Battaglia, Tobias Pfaff
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 notable top 25%
- Readers: Everyone
The Challenges of Exploration for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Nathan Lambert, Markus Wulfmeier, William F Whitney, Arunkumar Byravan, Michael Bloesch, Vibhavari Dasagi, Tim Hertweck, Martin Riedmiller
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
The Challenges of Exploration for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Nathan Lambert, Markus Wulfmeier, William F. Whitney, Arunkumar Byravan, Michael Bloesch, Vibhavari Dasagi, Tim Hertweck, Martin A. Riedmiller
- 2022 (modified: 26 Feb 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Offline RL Without Off-Policy Evaluation
David Brandfonbrener, William F Whitney, Rajesh Ranganath, Joan Bruna
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Offline RL Without Off-Policy Evaluation
David Brandfonbrener, William F Whitney, Rajesh Ranganath, Joan Bruna
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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