[FRIAM] Fwd: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11 11AM

[George Duncan]

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Subject: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11
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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!

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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
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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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