TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Aleksandra Faust of Google Brain Research on AutoRL, meta-RL, learning to learn & learning to teach, curriculum learning, collaborations between senior and junior researchers, and more!

Show Notes

Dr Aleksandra Faust is a Staff Research Scientist and Reinforcement Learning research team co-founder at Google Brain Research.

Featured References

Reinforcement Learning and Planning for Preference Balancing Tasks 
Faust 2014

Learning Navigation Behaviors End-to-End with AutoRL
Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang, Aleksandra Faust, Marek Fiser, Anthony Francis

Evolving Rewards to Automate Reinforcement Learning 
Aleksandra Faust, Anthony Francis, Dar Mehta 

Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms 
John D Co-Reyes, Yingjie Miao, Daiyi Peng, Esteban Real, Quoc V Le, Sergey Levine, Honglak Lee, Aleksandra Faust 

Adversarial Environment Generation for Learning to Navigate the Web 
Izzeddin Gur, Natasha Jaques, Kevin Malta, Manoj Tiwari, Honglak Lee, Aleksandra Faust 


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Creators & Guests

Host
Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan
๐ŸŒฑ Head of Eng @AgFunder ๐Ÿง  AI:Reinforcement Learning/ML/DL/NLP๐ŸŽ™๏ธHost @TalkRLPodcast ๐Ÿ’ณ ex-@Microsoft ecomm PgmMgr ๐Ÿค– @UWaterloo CompEng ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

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.