TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Eugene Vinitsky of UC Berkeley on social norms and sanctions, traffic simulation, mixed-autonomy traffic, and more!

Show Notes

Eugene Vinitsky is a PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Alexandre Bayen. He has interned at Tesla and Deepmind.  


Featured References 

A learning agent that acquires social norms from public sanctions in decentralized multi-agent settings 
Eugene Vinitsky, Raphael Köster, John P. Agapiou, Edgar Duéñez-Guzmán, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Joel Z. Leibo 

Optimizing Mixed Autonomy Traffic Flow With Decentralized Autonomous Vehicles and Multi-Agent RL 
Eugene Vinitsky, Nathan Lichtle, Kanaad Parvate, Alexandre Bayen 

Lagrangian Control through Deep-RL: Applications to Bottleneck Decongestion 
Eugene Vinitsky; Kanaad Parvate; Aboudy Kreidieh; Cathy Wu; Alexandre Bayen 2018 

The Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative Multi-Agent Games 
Chao Yu, Akash Velu, Eugene Vinitsky, Yu Wang, Alexandre Bayen, Yi Wu 


Additional References 

Creators & Guests

Host
Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan
🌱 Head of Eng @AgFunder 🧠 AI:Reinforcement Learning/ML/DL/NLP🎙️Host @TalkRLPodcast 💳 ex-@Microsoft ecomm PgmMgr 🤖 @UWaterloo CompEng 🇨🇦 🇮🇳

What is TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast?

TalkRL podcast is All Reinforcement Learning, All the Time.
In-depth interviews with brilliant people at the forefront of RL research and practice.
Guests from places like MILA, OpenAI, MIT, DeepMind, Berkeley, Amii, Oxford, Google Research, Brown, Waymo, Caltech, and Vector Institute.
Hosted by Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan.