About

About

Reinforcement learning is one of the most active research areas within machine learning. Recent empirical successes triggered a new wave of theoretical research in RL, with so many new directions opened in the past couple of years that it has become somewhat challenging to keep up with all the progress. This is made even worse in 2020 by the lack of in-person workshops and conferences.

This online seminar series aims to address these problems by providing a platform to get together and discuss the freshest work on RL theory. We aim to provide a balanced view of contemporary RL theory, and invite speakers covering a broad range of topics. 

While the selection of the talks is naturally influenced by our personal tastes, we aim to keep these biases to a minimum. We welcome suggestions for talks at our email address below.

Organizers

Previous Organizers

Co-Hosts

We are thankful to our co-hosts for guiding the discussions in the seminars:

Advisors

We are grateful for the support of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Imperial College London, University of Alberta and Google DeepMind. We would also like to thank Alex Ayoub for his help setting up and maintaining the meets.

Contact US

Feel free to contact us with any queries or suggestions for papers at:

virtualrltheory[at]gmail.com