Abram L. Friesen

26 papers A* 10B 1Journal 10Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	A*	`conf`	BOND: Aligning LLMs with Best-of-N Distillation. ICLR Pier Giuseppe Sessa, Robert Dadashi-Tazehozi, Léonard Hussenot, Johan Ferret, Nino Vieillard, Alexandre Ramé, Bobak Shahriari, Sarah Perrin, Abram L. Friesen, Geoffrey Cideron, Sertan Girgin, Piotr Stanczyk, Andrea Michi, Danila Sinopalnikov, Sabela Ramos Garea, Amélie Héliou, Aliaksei Severyn, Matthew Hoffman, Nikola Momchev, Olivier Bachem
2023	J	`jnl`	Knowledge Transfer from Teachers to Learners in Growing-Batch Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi, Abram L. Friesen, Bobak Shahriari, Nando de Freitas, Matthew W. Hoffman
2022	A*	`conf`	Introducing Symmetries to Black Box Meta Reinforcement Learning. AAAI Louis Kirsch, Sebastian Flennerhag, Hado van Hasselt, Abram L. Friesen, Junhyuk Oh, Yutian Chen
2022	A*	`conf`	Model-Value Inconsistency as a Signal for Epistemic Uncertainty. ICML Angelos Filos, Eszter Vértes, Zita Marinho, Gregory Farquhar, Diana Borsa, Abram L. Friesen, Feryal M. P. Behbahani, Tom Schaul, André Barreto, Simon Osindero
2022	J	`jnl`	Multi-step Planning for Automated Hyperparameter Optimization with OptFormer. CoRR Lucio M. Dery, Abram L. Friesen, Nando de Freitas, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Yutian Chen
2022	A*	`conf`	Retrieval-Augmented Reinforcement Learning. ICML Anirudh Goyal, Abram L. Friesen, Andrea Banino, Theophane Weber, Nan Rosemary Ke, Adrià Puigdomènech Badia, Arthur Guez, Mehdi Mirza, Peter Conway Humphreys, Ksenia Konyushkova, Michal Valko, Simon Osindero, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Nicolas Heess, Charles Blundell
2022	J	`jnl`	Retrieval-Augmented Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Anirudh Goyal, Abram L. Friesen, Andrea Banino, Theophane Weber, Nan Rosemary Ke, Adrià Puigdomènech Badia, Arthur Guez, Mehdi Mirza, Ksenia Konyushkova, Michal Valko, Simon Osindero, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Nicolas Heess, Charles Blundell
2021	J	`jnl`	Introducing Symmetries to Black Box Meta Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Louis Kirsch, Sebastian Flennerhag, Hado van Hasselt, Abram L. Friesen, Junhyuk Oh, Yutian Chen
2021	J	`jnl`	Model-Value Inconsistency as a Signal for Epistemic Uncertainty. CoRR Angelos Filos, Eszter Vértes, Zita Marinho, Gregory Farquhar, Diana Borsa, Abram L. Friesen, Feryal M. P. Behbahani, Tom Schaul, André Barreto, Simon Osindero
2021	A*	`conf`	On the role of planning in model-based deep reinforcement learning. ICLR Jessica B. Hamrick, Abram L. Friesen, Feryal M. P. Behbahani, Arthur Guez, Fabio Viola, Sims Witherspoon, Thomas Anthony, Lars Holger Buesing, Petar Velickovic, Theophane Weber
2020	A*	`conf`	Modular Meta-Learning with Shrinkage. NeurIPS Yutian Chen, Abram L. Friesen, Feryal M. P. Behbahani, Arnaud Doucet, David Budden, Matthew Hoffman, Nando de Freitas
2020	J	`jnl`	On the role of planning in model-based deep reinforcement learning. CoRR Jessica B. Hamrick, Abram L. Friesen, Feryal M. P. Behbahani, Arthur Guez, Fabio Viola, Sims Witherspoon, Thomas Anthony, Lars Buesing, Petar Velickovic, Théophane Weber
2019	J	`jnl`	Modular Meta-Learning with Shrinkage. CoRR Yutian Chen, Abram L. Friesen, Feryal M. P. Behbahani, David Budden, Matthew W. Hoffman, Arnaud Doucet, Nando de Freitas
2018	—	`conf`	Deep Learning as a Mixed Convex-Combinatorial Optimization Problem. ICLR (Poster) Abram L. Friesen, Pedro M. Domingos
2018	A*	`conf`	Submodular Field Grammars: Representation, Inference, and Application to Image Parsing. NeurIPS Abram L. Friesen, Pedro M. Domingos
2017	J	`jnl`	Deep Learning as a Mixed Convex-Combinatorial Optimization Problem. CoRR Abram L. Friesen, Pedro M. Domingos
2017	—	`—`	The Sum-Product Theorem and its Applications. Abram L. Friesen
2016	J	`jnl`	Recursive Decomposition for Nonconvex Optimization. CoRR Abram L. Friesen, Pedro M. Domingos
2016	A*	`conf`	The Sum-Product Theorem: A Foundation for Learning Tractable Models. ICML Abram L. Friesen, Pedro M. Domingos
2016	J	`jnl`	The Sum-Product Theorem: A Foundation for Learning Tractable Models. CoRR Abram L. Friesen, Pedro M. Domingos
2015	A*	`conf`	Recursive Decomposition for Nonconvex Optimization - IJCAI-15 Distinguished Paper. IJCAI Abram L. Friesen, Pedro M. Domingos
2012	—	`conf`	How Prior Probability Influences Decision Making: A Unifying Probabilistic Model. NIPS Yanping Huang, Abram L. Friesen, Timothy D. Hanks, Michael N. Shadlen, Rajesh P. N. Rao
2011	—	`conf`	An ideal observer model for identifying the reference frame of objects. NIPS Joseph L. Austerweil, Abram L. Friesen, Thomas L. Griffiths
2011	B	`conf`	Gaze Following as Goal Inference: A Bayesian Model. CogSci Abram L. Friesen, Rajesh P. N. Rao
2010	A*	`conf`	Estimating the progress of MapReduce pipelines. ICDE Kristi Morton, Abram L. Friesen, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman
2010	—	`conf`	Imitation learning with hierarchical actions. ICDL Abram L. Friesen, Rajesh P. N. Rao

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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