RL & Agents Reading Group
RL & Agents Reading Group @ University of Edinburgh
We regularly discuss recent papers in RL, MARL & related
edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
- Reading group TOMORROW 3-4pm UK! Joe Marino (Google DeepMind) will present SIMA 2, a generalist embodied agent designed to operate across a wide range of 3D virtual worlds 🌎 Join here: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
- Reading group TODAY 2pm BST! "Despite years of research in offline reinforcement learning, the field has failed to deliver major breakthroughs..." Matthew Jackson and Jarek Liesen (Oxford) will present Unifloral - unified implementations and evaluations for offline RL: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11453
- Reading group today at 12:00 BST! We are continuing our NeurIPS series. Felix Chalumeau from InstaDeep will present his oral paper on how inference strategies can boost performance in MARL. 🚀 Papers: arxiv.org/abs/2505.21236 Meeting: bit.ly/488sD6n
- Reading group today at 2pm BST! We are starting our NeurIPS series with Sable and Oryx, sequence models for scalable multi-agent coordination from the RL Research Team at InstaDeep. 🚀 Papers: - Sable: bit.ly/3Lme7jH - Oryx: bit.ly/47GJb4T Meeting: - bit.ly/3JoEbtU
- RL reading group in less than 2 hours at 15:00 BST 🔥🕺 Speaker: Sebastian Griesbach Title: Learning to Explore in Diverse Reward Settings via Temporal-Difference-Error Maximization 🗺️ (RLJ) Paper: rlj.cs.umass.edu/2025/papers/... Meeting link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
- 📢 RL reading group TODAY @ 15:00 BST (in 2 hours!) 📢 Speakers: Olya Mastikhina and Dhruv Sreenivas (University of Montreal & Mila - Quebec AI Institute) Title: Optimistic critics can empower small actors🦸 Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
- 📢 RL reading group Thursday @ 16:00 BST 📢 Speaker: Alex Lewandowski Title: The World Is Bigger: A Computationally-Embedded Perspective on the Big World Hypothesis 🌍 Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
- RL reading group TODAY @ 15:00 BST 🔥 Speaker: Cam Allen (Postdoc, UC Berkeley) Title: The Agent Must Choose the Problem Model Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group
- We are super excited to kick things off again with Mattie Fellows (Postdoc @ FLAIR in Oxford) today 15:00 BST! Paper: Simplifying Deep Temporal Difference Learning Check out our website for full info edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-grou...
- We regularly host guest speakers, so please get in touch if you're interested in presenting your work 🤟❤️🔥
- 📝 Sign up: forms.gle/anHVSi97d6F6... 🗳️ Propose papers: github.com/edinburgh-rl... 📺 Past recordings: www.youtube.com/@RL_And_Agen...
- Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc). Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊
