Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 1/2 @ RLC 2025
From TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast by Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan
August 15, 2025 · 7 min · Episode 69
About this episode
The episode features discussions with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners from the Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025.
We caught up with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners for your listening pleasure. Recorded on location at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025 , at University of Alberta, in Edmonton Alberta Canada in August 2025. Featured References Scientific Understanding in Reinforcement Learning How Should We Meta-Learn Reinforcement Learning Algorithms? Alexander David Goldie, Zilin Wang, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Shimon Whiteson Tooling, Environments, and Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning Syllabus: Portable Curricula for Reinforcement Learning Agents Ryan Sullivan, Ryan Pégoud, Ameen Ur Rehman, Xinchen Yang, Junyun Huang, Aayush Verma, Nistha Mitra, John P Dickerson Resourcefulness in Reinforcement Learning PufferLib 2.0: Reinforcement Learning at 1M steps/s Joseph Suarez Theory of Reinforcement Learning Deep Reinforcement Learning with Gradient Eligibility Traces Esraa Elelimy, Brett Daley, Andrew Patterson, Marlos C. Machado, Adam White, Martha White
People in this episode
Guests: Alexander David Goldie, Zilin Wang, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Ryan Sullivan, Ryan Pégoud, Ameen Ur Rehman, Xinchen Yang, Junyun Huang, Aayush Verma, Nistha Mitra, John P Dickerson, Joseph Suarez, Esraa Elelimy, Brett Daley, Andrew Patterson, Marlos C. Machado, Adam White, Martha White, Shimon Whiteson
Topics covered
- Reinforcement Learning
- Research
- Awards
Keywords
- RLC 2025
- Outstanding Paper
- University of Alberta
- Edmonton
- Canada
Mentioned in this episode
Products: PufferLib 2.0
Places: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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