William Qian

PhD student, Harvard University

1 paper at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 5

Friday, December 5, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments

#314 · Riley Simmons-Edler, Ryan Paul Badman, Felix Baastad Berg, Raymond Chua, John Vastola, Joshua Lunger, William Qian, Kanaka Rajan

We propose methods for studying behavior and neural dynamics in deep RL agents based on neuroscience methods and demonstrate them in a naturalistic simulated foraging environment