This program supports AI startups at any time of the year. Benefit from cutting-edge resources and tailored support to accelerate your technology's development.
Offered by Mila and the Public Policy Forum, this program is designed to equip policy and decision makers with the tools to navigate the opportunities and risks of AI. The next cohort will be held in French on September 1-2, 2026, at Mila.
Connect with a Mila academic advisor and current student-researchers to learn more about Mila's community and how to join us on August 19, 31 and September 11, 2026.
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Diffusion and flow models are effective world models for visual reinforcement learning, but existing agents treat them as black-box simulato… (see more)rs, leaving the backbone’s representations unused for control. We introduce DRIFT, an online agent in which a single Flow-Transformer serves as both world model and policy backbone, trained from scratch. We find that denoising features alone are suboptimal for control; DRIFT bridges this gap with a next-latent prediction objective that gives the backbone an explicit dynamics signal. Shortcut flow matching reduces imagination to a single denoising step per frame. Across Atari 100k, Craftium, and Crafter, DRIFT is competitive with both latent-dynamics and diffusion world-model baselines.