Roman Ring

Roman Ring discusses the Research Engineer role at DeepMind, StarCraft II, AlphaStar, his bachelor's thesis, JAX, Julia, IMPALA and more!

Show Notes

Roman Ring is a Research Engineer at DeepMind. 

Featured References 

Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning 
Vinyals et al, 2019 

Replicating DeepMind StarCraft II Reinforcement Learning Benchmark with Actor-Critic Methods 
Roman Ring, 2018 


Additional References 

• Relational Deep Reinforcement Learning,  Zambaldi et al 2018 
• StarCraft II: A New Challenge for Reinforcement Learning, Vinyals et al 2017 
• Safe and Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning [Retrace(λ)], Munos et al 2016 
• Sample Efficient Actor-Critic with Experience Replay [ACER], Wang et al 2016 
• IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures [IMPALA/V-trace], Espeholt et al 2018 

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 🇨🇦 🇮🇳

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