Together with Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Cambridge), we are hiring a postdoc for a special joint position in WhiRL at the University of Oxford and Microsoft Research Cambridge. More information: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1673-full.html
WhiRL has four accepted papers at ICML this year! Camera ready versions can be found here:“A Baseline for Any Order Gradient Estimation in Stochastic Computation Graphs” – Jingkai Mao‚ Jakob Foerster‚ Tim Rocktäschel‚ Maruan Al−Shedivat‚ Gregory Farquhar and Shimon Whiteson“Fingerprint Policy Optimisation for Robust Reinforcement Learning” – Supratik Paul‚ Michael A. Osborne and Shimon Whiteson“Fast Context Adaptation via Meta−Learning” – Luisa Zintgraf‚ Kyriacos Shiarlis‚ Vitaly Kurin‚ Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson“Bayesian Action Decoder for Deep Multi−Agent Reinforcement Learning” [...]
Tim Rocktäschel, Jakob Foerster and Greg Farquhar Every year we get contacted by students who wish to work on short-term machine learning research projects with us. By now, we have supervised a good number of them and we noticed that some of the advice that we gave followed a few recurring principles. In this post, we share what we believe is good advice for a master’s thesis project or a summer research internship in machine learning. This post is by [...]
All our five submissions for ICML 2018 have just been accepted: DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte Carlo Estimator Jakob Foerster, Gregory Farquhar, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Tim Rocktäschel, Eric Xing, Shimon Whiteson QMIX: Monotonic Value Function Factorisation for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Tabish Rashid, Mikayel Samvelyan, Christian Schroeder, Gregory Farquhar, Jakob Foerster, Shimon Whiteson Fourier Policy Gradients Matthew Fellows, Kamil Ciosek, Shimon Whiteson Deep Variational Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs Maximilian Igl, Luisa Zintgraf, Tuan Anh Le, Frank Wood, Shimon Whiteson TACO: Learning Task Decomposition via Temporal Alignment for Control Kyriacos Shiarlis, [...]
Our lab member Kamil Ciosek has published a video of his presentation of his recent paper “Expected Policy Gradients” (together with Shimon Whiteson) at AAAI-18.
Our paper “TreeQN and ATreeC: Differentiable Tree Planning for Deep Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted at #ICLR2018 ! Congratulations to Gregory Farquhar, Tim Rocktäschel, Maximilian Igl and Shimon Whiteson.
We’re happy to announce that WhiRL members have two accepted papers at #AAMAS2018 this year.Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness Jakob N. Foerster, Richard Y. Chen, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Shimon Whiteson, Pieter Abbeel, Igor Mordatch. Arxiv version: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04326 Ordered Preference Elicitation Strategies for Supporting Multi-Objective Decision Making, Luisa M Zintgraf, Diederik M Roijers, Sjoerd Linders, Catholijn M Jonker, Ann Nowé (arxiv.org/abs/1802.07606 )
Wendelin Boehmer has joined WhiRL as a new postdoctoral researcher.
Our paper “Counterfactual Multi−Agent Policy Gradients” by Jakob Foerster‚ Gregory Farquhar‚ Triantafyllos Afouras‚ Nantas Nardelli and Shimon Whiteson has been selected as the Outstanding Student Paper for AAAI-18! Congratulations to all authors!
Whiteson Research Lab members have three papers accepted at AAAI-2018: Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy GradientsJakob Foerster, Gregory Farquhar, Triantafyllos Afouras, Nantas Nardelli, Shimon WhitesonAlternating Optimisation and Quadrature for Robust ControlSupratik Paul, Shimon Whiteson, Michael Osborne, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis, Kamil Ciosek, Jean-Baptiste MouretExpected Policy GradientsKamil Ciosek, Shimon Whiteson
