Dane Carnegie Malenfant
@dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social
MSc. @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @mcgill.ca in the LiNC lab
Fixating on multi-agent RL, Neuro-AI and decisions
Ēka ē-akimiht
https://danemalenfant.com/
Fixating on multi-agent RL, Neuro-AI and decisions
Ēka ē-akimiht
https://danemalenfant.com/
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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) often assumes that agents know when other agents cooperate with them. But for humans, this isn’t always the case. For example, plains indigenous groups used to leave resources for others to use at effigies called Manitokan.
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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) often assumes that agents know when other agents cooperate with them. But for humans, this isn’t always the case. For example, plains indigenous groups used to leave resources for others to use at effigies called Manitokan.
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I am presenting this work at the @cocomarl-workshop.bsky.social part of @rl-conference.bsky.social Tuesday (: I additionally have a generalized correction term for n-arbitrary agents (it is like walking a tree for the order of gradients) that I am looking for thoughts, validations or critiques.
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An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses the current president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a former president of the Métis National Council (MNC) of misappropriating millions of dollars of the MNC’s funds.
MMF exonerated by Ontario Superior court in MNC lawsuit
The Manitoba Métis Federation, MMF, has been cleared in lawsuit launched against it by the Métis National Council.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses the current president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a former president of the Métis National Council (MNC) of misappropriating millions of dollars of the MNC’s funds.
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Wait until you find out about some of the "Indigenous" authors you replace Thomas King with.
It just doesn't end.
It just doesn't end.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Wait until you find out about some of the "Indigenous" authors you replace Thomas King with.
It just doesn't end.
It just doesn't end.
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One more thing. For YEARS I (and others) thought King was Blackfoot because of Green Grass, Running Water and his other writings around that time. And he was so heavily embedded in Treaty 7 at that time. I don't know if I missed it or he wasn't saying at the time that he claimed Cherokee.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
One more thing. For YEARS I (and others) thought King was Blackfoot because of Green Grass, Running Water and his other writings around that time. And he was so heavily embedded in Treaty 7 at that time. I don't know if I missed it or he wasn't saying at the time that he claimed Cherokee.
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The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
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(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney joins Manitoba leaders in tribute to Louis Riel.
What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews
What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney joins Manitoba leaders in tribute to Louis Riel.
What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews
What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews
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Today was really foggy, and with the temperature just below freezing, we get rime ice. It’s a mood 😊🌿
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today was really foggy, and with the temperature just below freezing, we get rime ice. It’s a mood 😊🌿
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So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
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Super interesting. For training small LLMs, they get results comparable to those trained on an order of magnitude more tokens by replacing normal pre-training (which ingests huge amounts of human-written text) with exclusively synthetic text derived in a structured way from Wikipedia.
SYNTH is a radical departure from the classic pre-training recipe: what if we trained for reasoning and focused on the assimilation of knowledge and skill that matters? At its core it’s an upsampling of Wikipedia 50,000 “vital” articles. huggingface.co/datasets/Ple...
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Super interesting. For training small LLMs, they get results comparable to those trained on an order of magnitude more tokens by replacing normal pre-training (which ingests huge amounts of human-written text) with exclusively synthetic text derived in a structured way from Wikipedia.
I love machine learning
I love artificial intelligence
I love computer science
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I love machine learning
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“Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all. However, these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades.”
#IndigenousVeteransDay
Lest We Forget
#IndigenousVeteransDay
Lest We Forget
A reflection on First Nations contributions to WW I and WW II | CBC News
Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all, but these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to the...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all. However, these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades.”
#IndigenousVeteransDay
Lest We Forget
#IndigenousVeteransDay
Lest We Forget
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Discover the inspiring journey of Maude Lizaire, the first Afro-descendant woman to earn a PhD at Mila, and a strong advocate for more inclusive science. mila.quebec/en/news/maud...
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Discover the inspiring journey of Maude Lizaire, the first Afro-descendant woman to earn a PhD at Mila, and a strong advocate for more inclusive science. mila.quebec/en/news/maud...
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A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
AlphaEvolve is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines ...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
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“Edge of chaos” dynamics are long recognized as a computationally potent dynamical regime that avoids vanishing gradients during learning and allows greater memory and expressivity of a system. This stark difference surprised us, and we think it can help explain our results on neural adaptation.
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Edge of chaos” dynamics are long recognized as a computationally potent dynamical regime that avoids vanishing gradients during learning and allows greater memory and expressivity of a system. This stark difference surprised us, and we think it can help explain our results on neural adaptation.
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Indeed, Lyapunov exponents show that fixed points for RL models largely stay near 0, showing these networks’ dynamics lie at the edge of chaos. Whereas SL models’ dynamics are contractive and orderly, keeping very little information in memory for long and having stereotyped expressivity.
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Indeed, Lyapunov exponents show that fixed points for RL models largely stay near 0, showing these networks’ dynamics lie at the edge of chaos. Whereas SL models’ dynamics are contractive and orderly, keeping very little information in memory for long and having stereotyped expressivity.
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Two Metis Nation-Saskatchewan officials were in Ottawa this week seeking funding and urgent collaborative support for culturally appropriate addictions treatment centers.
This is in response to increased addictions and gang violence seen in the area.
This is in response to increased addictions and gang violence seen in the area.
MN-S demands funding support from Ottawa for culturally appropriate treatment centers | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Two Metis Nation-Saskatchewan officials were in Ottawa this week seeking funding and urgent collaborative support for culturally appropriate addictions treatment centers.
This is in response to increased addictions and gang violence seen in the area.
This is in response to increased addictions and gang violence seen in the area.
1/3 Thank you to CIFAR and partners in DSET for bringing me to Banff to speak on my research: The challenge of hidden gifts in multi-agent reinforcement learning arxiv.org/abs/2505.20579. We introduce a novel task on reciprocity with a scarce resource; take what you need, leave what you don’t.
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
1/3 Thank you to CIFAR and partners in DSET for bringing me to Banff to speak on my research: The challenge of hidden gifts in multi-agent reinforcement learning arxiv.org/abs/2505.20579. We introduce a novel task on reciprocity with a scarce resource; take what you need, leave what you don’t.
I’ve been finding papers that experiment with ANNs at the hardware level very interesting recently.
Such as diffusive memristors
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Such as diffusive memristors
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A spiking artificial neuron based on one diffusive memristor, one transistor and one resistor - Nature Electronics
An artificial neuron that is based on one diffusive memristor, one transistor and one resistor can exhibit six key biological neuronal characteristics—leaky integration, threshold firing, cascaded con...
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I’ve been finding papers that experiment with ANNs at the hardware level very interesting recently.
Such as diffusive memristors
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Such as diffusive memristors
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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First Nation of Na-Cho Nyӓk Dun Elder Walter Peter never imagined he’d see himself as a hologram.
But thanks to the wonders of technology, Peter was recently turned into a nearly life-size 3D version of himself.
But thanks to the wonders of technology, Peter was recently turned into a nearly life-size 3D version of himself.
Na-Cho Nyäk Dun uses holograms to preserve culture
Elders in Mayo, Yukon are embracing hologram technology to pass down language and cultural knowledge.
www.aptnnews.ca
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
First Nation of Na-Cho Nyӓk Dun Elder Walter Peter never imagined he’d see himself as a hologram.
But thanks to the wonders of technology, Peter was recently turned into a nearly life-size 3D version of himself.
But thanks to the wonders of technology, Peter was recently turned into a nearly life-size 3D version of himself.
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LLMs are trained to compress data by mapping sequences to high-dim representations!
How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔
Announcing our #NeurIPS2025 📄 that dives into this.
🧵below
#AIResearch #MachineLearning #LLM
How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔
Announcing our #NeurIPS2025 📄 that dives into this.
🧵below
#AIResearch #MachineLearning #LLM
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
LLMs are trained to compress data by mapping sequences to high-dim representations!
How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔
Announcing our #NeurIPS2025 📄 that dives into this.
🧵below
#AIResearch #MachineLearning #LLM
How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔
Announcing our #NeurIPS2025 📄 that dives into this.
🧵below
#AIResearch #MachineLearning #LLM
I love artificial intelligence
I love computer science
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I love artificial intelligence
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[1/9] Excited to share our new paper "A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood" published today. We feel this topic is timely, and rapidly growing in importance as AI becomes agentic, as AI agents integrate further into the economy, and as more and more users encounter AI.
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
[1/9] Excited to share our new paper "A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood" published today. We feel this topic is timely, and rapidly growing in importance as AI becomes agentic, as AI agents integrate further into the economy, and as more and more users encounter AI.
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[9/9] Read the full paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396
Coauthors:
Sasha Vezhnevets,
@xtan,
@WilCunningham
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396
Coauthors:
Sasha Vezhnevets,
@xtan,
@WilCunningham
A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood
The emergence of agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to trigger a "Cambrian explosion" of new kinds of personhood. This paper proposes a pragmatic framework for navigating this diversification...
arxiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
[9/9] Read the full paper here:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396
Coauthors:
Sasha Vezhnevets,
@xtan,
@WilCunningham
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396
Coauthors:
Sasha Vezhnevets,
@xtan,
@WilCunningham