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

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From: Graham Neubig <[hidden email]>
Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:00 AM
Subject: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11 11AM
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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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Frank Wimberly-2

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

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 <[hidden email]> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Graham Neubig <[hidden email]>
Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:00 AM
Subject: Talk Announcement: Edward Grefenstette (Facebook AI/UCL) - 8/11 11AM
To: <[hidden email]>, <[hidden email]>, <[hidden email]>

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
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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