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Stuart Russell

University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, CA, USA

23 papers at tracked venues · 20 at CORE A* · active 2024–2025

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Venues

ICML ×7ICLR ×6NeurIPS ×6ICRA ×2AAAI ×1UAI ×1

Frequent coauthors

Anca D. Dragan
×5
Hanlin Zhu
×5
Scott Emmons
×5
Justin Svegliato
×3
Erik Jenner
×3
Jiantao Jiao
×3
Cassidy Laidlaw
×2
Michael Dennis
×2
Shreyas Kapur
×2
Jiahai Feng
×2
Jacob Steinhardt
×2
Michael I. Jordan
×2

Papers

  1. AssistanceZero: Scalably Solving Assistance Games
    ICML 2025 ·
    Cassidy Laidlaw
    ,
    Eli Bronstein
    ,
    Timothy Guo
    ,
    Dylan Feng
    ,
    Lukas Berglund
    ,
    Justin Svegliato
    , Stuart Russell,
    Anca D. Dragan
  2. Avoiding Catastrophe in Online Learning by Asking for Help
    ICML 2025 ·
    Benjamin Plaut
    ,
    Hanlin Zhu
    , Stuart Russell
  3. BAMDP Shaping: a Unified Framework for Intrinsic Motivation and Reward Shaping
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Aly Lidayan
    ,
    Michael D. Dennis
    , Stuart Russell
  4. Diffusion On Syntax Trees For Program Synthesis
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Shreyas Kapur
    ,
    Erik Jenner
    , Stuart Russell
  5. Extractive Structures Learned in Pretraining Enable Generalization on Finetuned Facts
    ICML 2025 ·
    Jiahai Feng
    , Stuart Russell,
    Jacob Steinhardt
  6. Generalization or Hallucination? Understanding Out-of-Context Reasoning in Transformers
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yixiao Huang
    ,
    Hanlin Zhu
    ,
    Tianyu Guo
    ,
    Jiantao Jiao
    ,
    Somayeh Sojoudi
    ,
    Michael I. Jordan
    , Stuart J. Russell,
    Song Mei
  7. Monitoring Latent World States in Language Models with Propositional Probes
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jiahai Feng
    , Stuart Russell,
    Jacob Steinhardt
  8. Observation Interference in Partially Observable Assistance Games
    ICML 2025 ·
    Scott Emmons
    ,
    Caspar Oesterheld
    ,
    Vincent Conitzer
    , Stuart Russell
  9. RL, but don't do anything I wouldn't do
    UAI 2025 ·
    Michael K. Cohen
    ,
    Marcus Hutter
    ,
    Yoshua Bengio
    , Stuart Russell
  10. Reasoning by Superposition: A Theoretical Perspective on Chain of Continuous Thought
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Hanlin Zhu
    ,
    Shibo Hao
    ,
    Zhiting Hu
    ,
    Jiantao Jiao
    , Stuart J. Russell,
    Yuandong Tian
  11. Robust and Diverse Multi-Agent Learning via Rational Policy Gradient
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Niklas Lauffer
    ,
    Ameesh Shah
    ,
    Micah Carroll
    ,
    Sanjit A. Seshia
    , Stuart J. Russell,
    Michael Dennis
  12. The Partially Observable Off-Switch Game
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Andrew Garber
    ,
    Rohan Subramani
    ,
    Linus Luu
    ,
    Mark Bedaywi
    , Stuart Russell,
    Scott Emmons
  13. A Generalized Acquisition Function for Preference-based Reward Learning
    ICRA 2024 ·
    Evan Ellis
    ,
    Gaurav R. Ghosal
    , Stuart J. Russell,
    Anca D. Dragan
    ,
    Erdem Biyik
  14. AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions
    ICML 2024 ·
    Micah Carroll
    ,
    Davis Foote
    ,
    Anand Siththaranjan
    , Stuart Russell,
    Anca D. Dragan
  15. Ethically Compliant Autonomous Systems under Partial Observability
    ICRA 2024 ·
    Qingyuan Lu
    ,
    Justin Svegliato
    ,
    Samer B. Nashed
    ,
    Shlomo Zilberstein
    , Stuart Russell
  16. Evidence of Learned Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Erik Jenner
    ,
    Shreyas Kapur
    ,
    Vasil Georgiev
    ,
    Cameron Allen
    ,
    Scott Emmons
    , Stuart J. Russell
  17. Image Hijacks: Adversarial Images can Control Generative Models at Runtime
    ICML 2024 ·
    Luke Bailey
    ,
    Euan Ong
    , Stuart Russell,
    Scott Emmons
  18. On Representation Complexity of Model-based and Model-free Reinforcement Learning
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Hanlin Zhu
    ,
    Baihe Huang
    , Stuart Russell
  19. Position: Social Choice Should Guide AI Alignment in Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback
    ICML 2024 ·
    Vincent Conitzer
    ,
    Rachel Freedman
    ,
    Jobst Heitzig
    ,
    Wesley H. Holliday
    ,
    Bob M. Jacobs
    ,
    Nathan Lambert
    ,
    Milan Mossé
    ,
    Eric Pacuit
    , Stuart Russell,
    Hailey Schoelkopf
    ,
    Emanuel Tewolde
    ,
    William S. Zwicker
  20. Tensor Trust: Interpretable Prompt Injection Attacks from an Online Game
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Sam Toyer
    ,
    Olivia Watkins
    ,
    Ethan Adrian Mendes
    ,
    Justin Svegliato
    ,
    Luke Bailey
    ,
    Tiffany Wang
    ,
    Isaac Ong
    ,
    Karim Elmaaroufi
    ,
    Pieter Abbeel
    ,
    Trevor Darrell
    ,
    Alan Ritter
    , Stuart Russell
  21. The Effective Horizon Explains Deep RL Performance in Stochastic Environments
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Cassidy Laidlaw
    ,
    Banghua Zhu
    , Stuart Russell,
    Anca D. Dragan
  22. Towards a Theoretical Understanding of the 'Reversal Curse' via Training Dynamics
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Hanlin Zhu
    ,
    Baihe Huang
    ,
    Shaolun Zhang
    ,
    Michael I. Jordan
    ,
    Jiantao Jiao
    ,
    Yuandong Tian
    , Stuart J. Russell
  23. When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges of Partial Observability in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Leon Lang
    ,
    Davis Foote
    , Stuart J. Russell,
    Anca D. Dragan
    ,
    Erik Jenner
    ,
    Scott Emmons