Late to the party (since I just took some time to spend with our two little ones) but luckily good science is timeless ;)
wth did we not go to an open-source and non-for profit alternative? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky
PQN puts Q-learning back on the map and now comes with a blog post + Colab demo! Also, congrats to the team for the spotlight at #ICLR2025
Jakob Foerster
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Second #runconference @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 !
@jfoerst.bsky.social @ferranalet.bsky.social @adamjelley.bsky.social @enjeeneer.io
Same deal for tomorrow: 7am at
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Join us!
Jakob Foerster
Jakob Foerster
That's the first time that I see a video by chess.com cited in an accepted ICLR paper, in particular on handshakes vs. fist bumps during a chess competition ...
By Oxford, @jfoerst.bsky.social
Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=wFg...
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fS7...
@danielrensch.chess.com
@jfoerst.bsky.social take on how the community sees the ARC Challenge and how we evaluate models and use benchmarks nowadays is 👌.
#more_science_less_hype (please).
PS: Amazing discussion and good brain food, as usual with MLST.
Pablo Samuel Castro
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About the courseThe DPhil in Engineering Science will offer you the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise in your chosen field of engineering research. To support
PQN blog 3/3 👉take a look at Matteo's 5-minute blog covering PQN’s key features, plus a Colab demo with JAX & PyTorch implementations mttga.github.io/posts/pqn/
🔎 For a deeper dive into the theory:
blog.foersterlab.com/fixing-td-pa...
blog.foersterlab.com/fixing-td-pa...
See you in Singapore! 🇸🇬
PQN Blog 1/3: TD methods are the bread and butter of RL, yet can have convergence issues when used in practice. This has always annoyed me. Find out below why TD is so unstable and how can we understand this instability better using the TD Jacobian. @flair-ox.bsky.social @jfoerst.bsky.social
First #runconference @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 was great! Will share tomorrow's deets later today, join us!
@zacharylipton.bsky.social @adamjelley.bsky.social @random-steve.bsky.social
If you're already in Vancouver and like to run, join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7:30am in front of the Fairmont Waterfront for the first installment of #runconference @neuripsconf.bsky.social #NeurIPS2024 !
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cc @zacharylipton.bsky.social
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