Kai Arulkumaran

Kai Arulkumaran on AlphaStar and Evolutionary Computation, Domain Randomisation, Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning, Araya, NNAISENSE, and more!

Show Notes

Kai Arulkumaran is a researcher at Araya in Tokyo. 

Featured References 

AlphaStar: An Evolutionary Computation Perspective 
Kai Arulkumaran, Antoine Cully, Julian Togelius 

Analysing Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents Trained with Domain Randomisation 
Tianhong Dai, Kai Arulkumaran, Tamara Gerbert, Samyakh Tukra, Feryal Behbahani, Anil Anthony Bharath 

Training Agents using Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning 
Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, Pranav Shyam, Filipe Mutz, Wojciech Jaśkowski, Jürgen Schmidhuber 


Additional References 

• Araya 
• NNAISENSE 
• Kai Arulkumaran on Google Scholar 
• https://github.com/Kaixhin/rlenvs 
• https://github.com/Kaixhin/Atari 
• https://github.com/Kaixhin/Rainbow 
• Tschiatschek, S., Arulkumaran, K., Stühmer, J. & Hofmann, K. (2018). Variational Inference for Data-Efficient Model Learning in POMDPs. arXiv:1805.09281. 
• Arulkumaran, K., Dilokthanakul, N., Shanahan, M. & Bharath, A. A. (2016). Classifying Options for Deep Reinforcement Learning. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop. 
• Garnelo, M., Arulkumaran, K. & Shanahan, M. (2016). Towards Deep Symbolic Reinforcement Learning. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop. 
• Arulkumaran, K., Deisenroth, M. P., Brundage, M. & Bharath, A. A. (2017). Deep reinforcement learning: A brief survey. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 
• Agostinelli, A., Arulkumaran, K., Sarrico, M., Richemond, P. & Bharath, A. A. (2019). Memory-Efficient Episodic Control Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Online k-means. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning. 
• Sarrico, M., Arulkumaran, K., Agostinelli, A., Richemond, P. & Bharath, A. A. (2019). Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Maximum Entropy Mellowmax Episodic Control. Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning. 

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