Ph.D. student, PSI, KU Leuven
Supervised by Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars.
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Education
Master of Engineering, University of Liège
Magna Cum Laude. Thesis: The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis and Value-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Exchange semester, EPFL
Master's exchange semester.
Bachelor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Liège
Publications
Distributional Value Gradients for Stochastic Environments
arXiv
Poster
@inproceedings{debes2026distributionalvaluegradients,
title = {Distributional Value Gradients for Stochastic Environments},
author = {Debes, Baptiste and Tuytelaars, Tinne},
booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
year = {2026},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20071},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2601.20071}
}
Multivariate Distributional Reinforcement Learning Using Sliced Divergences
arXiv
Poster
@inproceedings{debes2026multivariatedistributionalrl,
title = {Multivariate Distributional Reinforcement Learning Using Sliced Divergences},
author = {Debes, Baptiste and Tuytelaars, Tinne},
booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
year = {2026},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31222},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2605.31222}
}
Awards
TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE Award
Award for Master’s thesis.