Reading group TODAY 3pm GMT (UK) time 📖
Lukas Schäfer (Microsoft Research) will be joining us to present predictive inverse dynamics models (PIDMs) as an alternative to behaviour cloning in offline imitation learning 💡
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.21718
Join here: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
Reading group TODAY at 3pm UK time (GMT)!
Ruaridh Mon-Williams will be joining us to present some interesting recent work on emergent partner modelling 💡
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17323
Join here: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
Reading group TOMORROW 3-4pm UK!
Joe Marino (Google DeepMind) will present SIMA 2, a generalist embodied agent designed to operate across a wide range of 3D virtual worlds 🌎
Join here: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
Reading group TODAY 2pm BST!
"Despite years of research in offline reinforcement learning, the field has failed to deliver major breakthroughs..."
Matthew Jackson and Jarek Liesen (Oxford) will present Unifloral - unified implementations and evaluations for offline RL: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11453
* 12:00 GMT+0, still in summer mode :D
Reading group today at 12:00 BST!
We are continuing our NeurIPS series. Felix Chalumeau from InstaDeep will present his oral paper on how inference strategies can boost performance in MARL. 🚀
Papers:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.21236
Meeting:
bit.ly/488sD6n
Reading group today at 2pm BST!
We are starting our NeurIPS series with Sable and Oryx, sequence models for scalable multi-agent coordination from the RL Research Team at InstaDeep. 🚀
Papers:
- Sable: bit.ly/3Lme7jH
- Oryx: bit.ly/47GJb4T
Meeting:
- bit.ly/3JoEbtU
RL reading group in less than 2 hours at 15:00 BST 🔥🕺
Speaker: Sebastian Griesbach
Title: Learning to Explore in Diverse Reward Settings via Temporal-Difference-Error Maximization 🗺️ (RLJ)
Paper: rlj.cs.umass.edu/2025/papers/...
Meeting link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
📢 RL reading group TODAY @ 15:00 BST (in 2 hours!) 📢
Speakers: Olya Mastikhina and Dhruv Sreenivas (University of Montreal & Mila - Quebec AI Institute)
Title: Optimistic critics can empower small actors🦸
Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
📢 RL reading group Thursday @ 16:00 BST 📢
Speaker: Alex Lewandowski
Title: The World Is Bigger: A Computationally-Embedded Perspective on the Big World Hypothesis 🌍
Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
RL reading group TODAY @ 15:00 BST 🔥
Speaker: Cam Allen (Postdoc, UC Berkeley)
Title: The Agent Must Choose the Problem Model
Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
We are super excited to kick things off again with Mattie Fellows (Postdoc @ FLAIR in Oxford) today 15:00 BST!
Paper: Simplifying Deep Temporal Difference Learning
Check out our website for full info edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-grou...
We regularly host guest speakers, so please get in touch if you're interested in presenting your work 🤟❤️🔥
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🗳️ Propose papers: github.com/edinburgh-rl...
📺 Past recordings: www.youtube.com/@RL_And_Agen...
Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group
We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc).
Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊
