Alex Farhang

I’m a PhD student at Caltech advised by Professor Yisong Yue. I graduated from Cornell University where I studied neuroscience and behavior and worked with Professor Jesse Goldberg and then with Professor Evan Feinberg at UCSF.

I’m interested in understanding when neural networks generalize and modeling complex behavior, especially with application to neuroscience.

news

May 29, 2024	Our work using transformers for agent control in video games was accepted at the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG): Humanlike Behavior in a Third-Person Shooter with Imitation Learning
Jul 7, 2022	Our paper Investigating Generalization by Controlling Normalized Margin was accepted at ICML
May 23, 2022	I’m beginning a research internship at Epic Games with Iain Matthews

selected publications

IEEE CoG

Humanlike Behavior in a Third-Person Shooter with Imitation Learning

Farhang, A. R., Mulcahy, B., Holden, D., Matthews, I., and Yue, Y.

IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2024

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@article{humanlike,
  title = {Humanlike Behavior in a Third-Person Shooter with Imitation Learning},
  author = {Farhang, A. R. and Mulcahy, B. and Holden, D. and Matthews, I. and Yue, Y.},
  journal = {IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1109/CoG60054.2024.10645651},
}

ICML

Investigating Generalization by Controlling Normalized Margin

Farhang, A. R., Bernstein, J., Tirumala, K., Liu, Y., and Yue, Y.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2022

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@article{farhang2022margin,
  title = {Investigating Generalization by Controlling Normalized Margin},
  author = {Farhang, A. R. and Bernstein, J. and Tirumala, K. and Liu, Y. and Yue, Y.},
  journal = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2022},
}