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Evan Ellis

I'm a master's student at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Anca Dragan. I'm currently interested in aligning coding agents with empowerment, not rewards. Previously, I worked on active learning, regularizing reward learning, and quantum optics. I've been fortunate to intern at Scale AI, Imbue AI, BAIR, and Salesforce.

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Publications

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Training LLM Agents to Empower Humans
Evan Ellis, Vivek Myers, Jens Tuyls, Sergey Levine, Anca Dragan, Benjamin Eysenbach
Deep Learning for Code Workshop, NeurIPS 2025
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Learning to assist humans without inferring rewards
Vivek Myers, Evan Ellis, Sergey Levine, Benjamin Eysenbach, Anca Dragan
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
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A Generalized Acquisition Function for Preference-based Reward Learning
Evan Ellis, Gaurav R Ghosal, Stuart J Russell, Anca Dragan, Erdem Bıyık
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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The virtual quantum optics laboratory
Brian R La Cour, Maria Maynard, Parth Shroff, Gabriel Ko, Evan Ellis
Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2022
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Projects

Forecasting with Societies of Agents
Nathaniel Li*, Yury Orlovskiy*, Evan Ellis*, Anish Kachinthaya*, Harbani Jaggi*, Haokun Zheng*
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Hoop-Passing Drone
Yoga Satwik Chappidi*, Nitin Vegesna*, Evan Ellis*, Aryan Jain*
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Neural Radiance Fields
Evan Ellis
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Panoramas
Evan Ellis
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Face Morphing
Evan Ellis
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Blending and Mixing
Evan Ellis
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Color Channel Alignment
Evan Ellis
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