Pierre-Luc Bacon

Pierre-Luc Bacon

Pierre-Luc Bacon, co-founder at CarbonForge. Professor at UdeM, Mila core member, Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Writing on RL for inference operating points.

Testing by betting: how we keep discovery agents from fooling themselves

An agent that chooses its own experiments can confirm a false finding in three ways: by checking the result after every new data point, by testing many claims a …

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Oct 8, 2026