NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 3

About this episode

This episode features short interviews and poster summaries from NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, highlighting various research contributions in reinforcement learning.

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver BC Canada. Featuring Claire Bizon Monroc from Inria: WFCRL: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Benchmark for Wind Farm Control Andrew Wagenmaker from UC Berkeley: Overcoming the Sim-to-Real Gap: Leveraging Simulation to Learn to Explore for Real-World RL Harley Wiltzer from MILA: Foundations of Multivariate Distributional Reinforcement Learning Vinzenz Thoma from ETH AI Center: Contextual Bilevel Reinforcement Learning for Incentive Alignment Haozhe (Tony) Chen & Ang (Leon) Li from Columbia: QGym: Scalable Simulation and Benchmarking of Queuing Network Controllers

People in this episode

Guests: Claire Bizon Monroc, Andrew Wagenmaker, Harley Wiltzer, Vinzenz Thoma, Haozhe (Tony) Chen, Ang (Leon) Li

Topics covered

• Reinforcement Learning
• NeurIPS 2024
• Multi-Agent Systems

Keywords

• Wind Farm Control
• Sim-to-Real Gap
• Multivariate Distributional RL
• Incentive Alignment
• Queuing Network Controllers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Overcoming the Sim-to-Real Gap: Leveraging Simulation to Learn to Explore for Real-World RL

Places: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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