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

[Frank Wimberly]

Thanks, George.  I was familiar with some of Greffenstette's work at some
point but the details elude me.  Have you attended any of these CMU talks
online?

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 4:37 PM George Duncan <gtduncan at gmail.com> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Graham Neubig <gneubig at cs.cmu.edu>
> Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:00 AM
> Subject: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11
> 11AM
> To: <ml-phd-students at cs.cmu.edu>, <ml-faculty at cs.cmu.edu>, <
> lti-seminar at cs.cmu.edu>
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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
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