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RL Weekly 12: Atari Demos with Human Gaze Labels, New SOTA in Meta-RL, and a Hierarchical Take on Intrinsic Rewards

RL Weekly 12: Atari Demos with Human Gaze Labels, New SOTA in Meta-RL, and a Hierarchical Take on Intrinsic Rewards

This week, we look at a new demo dataset of Atari games that include trajectories and human gaze. We also look at PEARL, a new...

RL Weekly 11: The Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton, the Promise of Hierarchical RL, and Exploration with Human Feedback

RL Weekly 11: The Bitter Lesson by Richard Sutton, the Promise of Hierarchical RL, and Exploration with Human Feedback

In this issue, we first look at a diary entry by Richard S. Sutton (DeepMind, UAlberta) on Compute versus Clever. Then, we look at a...

RL Weekly 10: Learning from Playing, Understanding Multi-agent Intelligence, and Navigating in Google Street View

RL Weekly 10: Learning from Playing, Understanding Multi-agent Intelligence, and Navigating in Google Street View

In this issue, we look at Google Brain's algorithm of learning by playing, DeepMind's thoughts on multi-agent intelligence, and DeepMind's new navigation environment using Google...

RL Weekly 9: Sample-efficient Near-SOTA Model-based RL, Neural MMO, and Bottlenecks in Deep Q-Learning

RL Weekly 9: Sample-efficient Near-SOTA Model-based RL, Neural MMO, and Bottlenecks in Deep Q-Learning

In this issue, we look at SimPLe, a model-based RL algorithm that achieves near-state-of-the-art results on Arcade Learning Environments (ALE). We also look at Neural...

RL Weekly 8: World Discovery Models, MuJoCo Soccer Environment, and Deep Planning Network

RL Weekly 8: World Discovery Models, MuJoCo Soccer Environment, and Deep Planning Network

In this issue, we introduce World Discovery Models and MuJoCo Soccer Environment from Google DeepMind, and PlaNet from Google.

RL Weekly 7: Obstacle Tower Challenge, Hanabi Learning Environment, and Spinning Up Workshop

RL Weekly 7: Obstacle Tower Challenge, Hanabi Learning Environment, and Spinning Up Workshop

This week, we introduce the Obstacle Tower Challenge, a new RL competition by Unity, Hanabi Learning Environment, a multi-agent environment by DeepMind, and Spinning Up...