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Hi! I'm a third-year PhD student in computer science (fast-tracked from masters) at Université de Montréal/Mila supervised by Gauthier Gidel and supported by NSERC.
Previously, I did my undergrad at McGill where I majored in computer science with minors in mathematics and economics. I also interned as a software engineer at Google, Amazon Robotics and Squarepoint Capital.
I am currently working on soft variants of reinforcement learning and potential applications to multi-agent problems. In the past, I've worked on generative models and their evaluation.
Generally, any topic that bridges computer science, economics and mathematics will be of interest!
News
- [August 2025] Passed my Predoc 3 (proposal) exam!
- [May 2025] Received the FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship (declined).
- [April 2025] Received the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral (PGS D).
Selected Publications
1. Discrete Compositional Generation via General Soft Operators and Robust Reinforcement Learning | [Github]
Marco Jiralerspong, Esther Derman, Danilo Vucetic, Nikolay Malkin, Bilun Sun, Tianyu Zhang, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Gauthier Gidel
arXiv 2025 (under review).
2. General Causal Imputation via Synthetic Interventions
Marco Jiralerspong, Thomas Jiralerspong, Vedant Shah, Dhanya Sridhar, Gauthier Gidel,
Workshop on Causal Representation Learning, NeurIPS 2024.
3. Expected Flow Networks in Stochastic Environments and Two-Player Zero-Sum Games | [Github]
Marco Jiralerspong*, Bilun Sun*, Danilo Vucetic*, Tianyu Zhang, Yoshua Bengio, Gauthier Gidel, Nikolay Malkin
ICLR 2024.
4. On the Stability of Iterative Retraining of Generative Models on their own Data
Quentin Bertrand, Joey Bose, Alexandre Duplessis, Marco Jiralerspong, Gauthier Gidel
ICLR 2024 (spotlight).
5. Feature Likelihood Divergence: Evaluating the Generalization of Generative Models Using Samples | [Github]
Marco Jiralerspong, Joey Bose, Ian Gemp, Chongli Qin, Yoram Bachrach, Gauthier Gidel
NeurIPS 2023.
Awards
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral (PGS D): $40 000/year.
- FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship (declined): $25 000/year.
Projects
Gale-Shapley Interactive Simulation | Interactive Simulation
An interactive, step-by-step, visualization of the Gale-Shapley algorithm in action for random preferences.
Python for Biologists | Github
An introductory Python course for biologists explaining how to get set up, the basic elements of the language and progressively harder exercises.