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Summer 2020 Reinforcement Learning Paper Club

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Hi! I’m starting a reinforcement learning paper club meeting once a month over the summer. It will be a small and intimate reading group of people with big dreams. Underrepresented minorities in technology are encouraged to apply. Apply here.

Eligibility:

  • Background in machine learning.
  • Attendance required for all 3 meetings.

Papers:

  • Decided by popular vote.

Dates:

  • Saturday, June 20, 2020
  • Saturday, July 18, 2020
  • Saturday, August 15, 2020

Time:

  • 8:00 - 9:00 PM CST

Update:



The paper club was a success!

Papers we read:

  1. Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning (Paper, Blog, Slides, Group Notes)
  2. Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data (Paper, Group Notes)
  3. Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms (Paper, Group Notes)

Members:

  1. Sonia Joseph (cofounder), Machine Learning Engineer at Stealth Start Up
  2. Scott Simontacchi,  Machine Learning Engineer at NextBee
  3. Taylor Kulp-Mcdowall, Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton
  4. Oguzhan Dogru, PhD Student @ University of Alberta
  5. Arun Raja, Undergraduate Student @ University of Singapore
  6. Pujaa Rajan (me)

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📚 Tonight was the third meeting of &quot;Theory and Practice: Deep RL&quot;, which I founded with @soniamjoseph.<br><br>📖 We read and discussed &quot;Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms&quot; by <a href="https://twitter.com/junh_oh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@junh_oh</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/matteohessel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@matteohessel</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/wojczarnecki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wojczarnecki</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/zhongwen2009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zhongwen2009</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hado?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hado</a>, Satinder Singh, and David Silver. <a href="https://t.co/O7MPUOpJvZ">pic.twitter.com/O7MPUOpJvZ</a></p>&mdash; Pujaa Rajan (@pujaarajan) <a href="https://twitter.com/pujaarajan/status/1294862848737177600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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