Thanks Sacha!

E71: Jake Beck, Alex Goldie, & Cornelius Braun on Sutton's OaK, Metalearning, LLMs, Squirrels at @rl-conference.bsky.social A few thoughts with @jakeabeck.bsky.social, @alexgoldie.bsky.social and @corneliusbraun.bsky.social after Rich Sutton's fascinating lecture on his OaK architecture at UofA

E69: Thomas Akam on Model-based RL in the Brain @ox.ac.uk neuroscientist Prof Akam on RL in brains vs machines, dopamine as TD-error (or not), hippocampal replay & Dyna, model-free vs model-based myths, and why ML experts should consider neuroscience careers.

E67: Stefano Albrecht on Multi-Agent RL @ RLDM 2025 Stefano Albrecht shares the story behind his multi-agent RL textbook, and how DeepFlow AI turns these ideas into action with LLM-powered agents for business automation. Recorded at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social

Rich Sutton presenting his OaK architecture at @rl-conference.bsky.social

Volunteers 👏 @rl-conference.bsky.social

Humans of @rl-conference.bsky.social

Excited to be at RLC 2025!

E66: Satinder Singh: The Origin Story of RLDM @ RLDM 2025 Professor Satinder Singh of Google DeepMind and U of Michigan is co-founder of ‪@rldmdublin2025.bsky.social‬ Here he narrates the origin story of the Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making meeting (not conference).

TalkRL Podcast at @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social in Dublin Ireland!

Excited to attend my first RLDM! (fomo from missing the past 2). Would love to say hi -- and will be looking for Talk RL Podcast interviews 🌸🍒🌸

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

E65: NeurIPS 2024 – Posters and Hallways 3 - Claire Bizon Monroc of Inria : WFCRL for Wind Farm Control Andrew Wagenmaker of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social : Leveraging Simulation to Bridge Sim-to-Real Gap - @harwiltz.bsky.social of @mila-quebec.bsky.social : Multivariate Distributional RL (cont)

BSKY E64: NeurIPS 2024 – Posters and Hallways 2 - Jonathan Cook of Oxford: Cultural Accumulation in Reinforcement Learning - Yifei Zhou of Berkeley AI Research: DigiRL for In-The-Wild Device-Control Agents - Rory Young of U Glasgow: A Lyapunov Exponent Approach to RL Robustness (cont'd)

E63: NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 1 Jiaheng Hu of UTexas on Unsupervised Skill Discovery for HRL @skandermoalla.bsky.social of EPFL: Representation and Trust in PPO Adil Zouitine of IRT Saint Exupery/Hugging Face : Time-Constrained Robust MDPs

The Posters and Hallways interviews from Neurips 2024 got delayed, bigly - mea culpa! Promising to publish faster from now on. (Each calendar week being like a year in AI and all). More cool guests incoming...

E62: Abhishek Naik on Continuing RL & Average Reward How should RL handle non-episodic tasks, like Mars rovers or HPC scheduling? @abhisheknaik96.bsky.social shares insights from his PhD with Rich Sutton, plus how almost every discounted-reward algorithm can be improved by reward centering.

We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data. It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried. In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.

Want a paid speaking gig at our AGM? 30 min talks on a deeptech topic incl: - Mat Sci - LLMs, RL, Agents, AI h/w - Robotics - Nanotech - Energy - Space Seeking engaging speakers, ideally from Cali or nearby. San Jose Convention Center Mon May 5 morning. Please DM!

It’s scathing critique season, this time for reinforcement learning. We need this, the science cannot get better without it. Usual suspects: training brittleness (over reliance on hyperparameter tuning), bad & slow sims, overemphasis on generality, LLMs dominating discourse, tabula rasa RL is hard

E61: Neurips 2024 RL meetup Hot takes: "What sucks about RL?" What do RL researchers complain about after hours at the bar?  In this "Hot takes" episode, we find out!   Recorded at The Pearl in downtown Vancouver, during the RL meetup after a day of Neurips 2024.

If you're at NeurIPS, RLC is hosting an RL event from 8 till late at The Pearl on Dec. 11th. Join us, meet all the RL researchers, and spread the word!

Trying to slowly populate the RL list here, help me out: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg

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