Jimmy Ba
Associate Professor
Studies deep learning optimization and deep reinforcement learning, including the Adam optimizer.
Jimmy Ba's lab at Toronto works on reinforcement learning and learning theory & optimization. 13 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly ICLR and NeurIPS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 69%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- —
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 0
- 3 papers2024 · T1 3
- 9 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, Findings of ACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Reinforcement learning1 paper
- Learning theory & optimization1 paper
- learning optimization0 papers
- studies deep0 papers
- deep reinforcement0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20243 papers
20239 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)AlpacaFarm: A Simulation Framework for Methods that Learn from Human Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- ITiCSEClassifying Course Discussion Board Questions using LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- AIEDDecomposed Prompting to Answer Questions on a Course Discussion Board (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Large Language Models are Human-Level Prompt Engineers (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Learning in the Presence of Low-dimensional Structure: A Spiked Random Matrix Perspective (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Multi-Rate VAE: Train Once, Get the Full Rate-Distortion Curve (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLResidual Prompt Tuning: improving prompt tuning with residual reparameterization (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)TR0N: Translator Networks for 0-Shot Plug-and-Play Conditional Generation (opens in a new tab)
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Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
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