---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Graham Neubig <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11 11AM To: Graham Neubig <[email protected]> CC: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, < [email protected]>
Hi All, I'd like to share the slides/video for this talk in case you missed it: Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UEKG3gEqdxf02kxoVn0Ep4ZTVEyuMd5D/view?usp=sharing Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mByJ_q_5dJALXRQrM8xgX53V6oDq4cxB/view?usp=sharing Graham On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 8:00 AM Graham Neubig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello LTI/ML Students, Faculty, > > I'm happy to announce that we'll be holding a virtual talk by Edward > Grefenstette (https://www.egrefen.com/), a research scientist at Facebook > AI Research and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. > Edward has done some excellent work on machine learning for language > processing, and in particular he has some nice work at the intersection of > language and reinforcement learning. Please see the following for more > details! > > ------- > > Title: Hacking your way to RL in the Real World (someday) > Time: 8/11 11:00AM > Link: > https://cmu.zoom.us/j/92042154213?pwd=aFc2WnMvblZTdUY4WkdSaDFaT0ZOUT09 > > Deep Reinforcement Learning has produced some impressive results—mostly in > a particular kind of game or game-like setting—which are worthy of praise. > However, we (eventually) want agents which do practical stuff in the real > world. Is the real world like these games? What's the realism gap? Are > there games that close it a little? All these questions will (possibly) be > partially and vaguely answered as I present a new environment for RL > research which will help push the boundaries of our field (without setting > your cluster on fire), and discuss some recent methods developed to scratch > the surface of the challenges associated with it. > > > -- George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos. "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion." >From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.
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