John Langford shares discussion on why and what for world models, with Information Bottleneck folks
JohnCLangford · x · 2026-09-06
John Langford (Vowpal Wabbit) shares a fun discussion on why world models matter and what exactly they should model, featuring folks associated with The Information Bottleneck. A theory-level conversation of interest to representation learning and world model researchers.
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