about | Julian Yocum

CHAI

2121 Berkeley Way,

Berkeley, CA 94704

Hi! I’m Julian, a PhD student at the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) at UC Berkeley. I work on AI, but I also get side-tracked by physics and philosophy, which I sometimes write about.

latest posts

May 22, 2021	a distill-style blog post

selected publications

NeurIPS Workshop

Mitigating Generative Agent Social Dilemmas

Julian Yocum, Phillip Christoffersen, Mehul Damani, and 3 more authors

In NeurIPS 2023 Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop, 2023

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{yocum2023mitigating,
  title = {Mitigating Generative Agent Social Dilemmas},
  author = {Yocum, Julian and Christoffersen, Phillip and Damani, Mehul and Svegliato, Justin and Hadfield-Menell, Dylan and Russell, Stuart},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2023 Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=5TIdOk7XQ6},
}

NeurIPS Workshop

Neural Manifold Geometry Encodes Feature Fields

Julian Yocum, Cameron Allen, Bruno Olshausen, and 1 more author

In NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{yocum2025neural,
  title = {Neural Manifold Geometry Encodes Feature Fields},
  author = {Yocum, Julian and Allen, Cameron and Olshausen, Bruno and Russell, Stuart},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=MwU86qfCTW},
}