Jean-Francois Ton
Scholar

Jean-Francois Ton

Google Scholar ID: WWVOu4kAAAAJ
ByteDance Seed
LLMsReward ModelsCausal InferenceExplainability
Citations & Impact
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Citations
1,307
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
20
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
51
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Resume (English only)
Research Experience
  • Currently a Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance SEED, focusing on evolutionary search, active knowledge acquisition, and open-ended behavior in LLM agents.
Education
  • - DPhil, University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Yee Whye Teh and Prof. Dino Sejdinovic
  • - MSc in Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
  • - BSc in Mathematics, Imperial College London
Background
  • Research interests include how LLMs can learn, adapt, and cooperate; areas of focus are alignment, reward modelling, and multi-agent interaction.