[Theory] 1/30 Talks at TTIC: Benjamin Eysenbach, Carnegie Mellon

[Mary Marre]

*When:*        Monday, January 30th at* 11:30** a**m CT   *


*Where:       *Talk will be given *live, in-person* at

                   TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue

                   5th Floor, Room 530


*Virtually:*  *via* Panopto (*livestream
<https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a2093eb5-a01d-4901-8757-af94001ec02f>*
)


*Who: *         Benjamin Eysenbach, Carnegie Mellon


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*Title*:          Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

*Abstract*: Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to harness the power of
machine learning to solve sequential decision making problems, with the
potential to enable applications ranging from robotics to chemistry.
However, what makes the RL paradigm broadly applicable is also what makes
it challenging: only limited feedback is provided for learning to select
good actions. In this talk, I will discuss how we have made headway of this
challenge by designing a class of self-supervised RL methods, ones that can
learn skills for acting using unsupervised (reward-free) experience. These
skill learning methods are practically-appealing and have since sparked a
vibrant area of research. I'll also share how we have answered some open
theoretical questions in this area.

*Bio*: Benjamin Eysenbach a final-year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon
University. His research has developed machine learning algorithms for
sequential decision making. His algorithms not only achieve a high degree
of performance, but also carry strong theoretical guarantees, are typically
simpler than prior methods, and draw connections between seemingly
disparate areas of ML and CS. Ben is the recipient of the NSF and Hertz
graduate fellowships. Prior to the PhD, he was a resident at Google
Research and studied math as an undergraduate at MIT.

*Host:* David McAllester <mcallester at ttic.edu>




Mary C. Marre
Faculty Administrative Support
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*773-834-1757*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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