Reinforcement Learning and
Artificial
Intelligence (RLAI) |
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Summer Tea-Time Talks Seminar Series |
Date | Weekday |
Time |
Location | Speaker | Topic and Comments | Host |
Tea
of
the
Day |
Type |
Temp. |
Region
of Origin |
May 3 |
Monday |
3:30pm (tea at
3:00pm) |
CSC B-10 | Rich Wolski |
Eucalyptus: An Open Source Infrastructure for Cloud Computing (Dist. Lect. Series) | n/a | Red Rose / Lipton / Tazo |
Black & Green |
Var. |
Ceylon, China, Various |
May
6 |
Thursday |
4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC
3-33 |
Rich Sutton | Online
representation
learning
in
the
state
update
function |
Patrick Pilarski | Bukhial
TGFOP |
Black |
200F 93C |
Assam,
India |
May 10 |
Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Yaoliang Yu |
Variable Selection by Nonconcave Penalizers | Patrick Pilarski |
Margret's
Hope
2nd.
Flush |
Black |
200F
93C |
Darjeeling,
India |
May
13 |
Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Joseph Modayil | Learning grounded knowledge from sensorimotor experience | Patrick Pilarski | Ying
Ming
Yunnan |
Black |
200F 93C |
Yunnan,
China |
May 17 |
Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Patrick Pilarski |
Feature and Variable
Selection |
Mike Delp | Japanese Cherry Sencha |
Flavoured Green |
175F 80C |
Japan |
May
20 |
Thursday | 5:00pm (tea at 4:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Martha
White |
tba | Mike
Delp |
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May 24 |
Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | CANCELLED | (n.b. Victoria Day Holiday) | n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
May 26 |
Wednesday | 12:00 noon (LLL) | CSC 3-33 | Michael Joya | Learning a Representation with Separable Maps | |||||
May
27 |
Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | István Szita | (n.b. MITACS/CORS is on this day) | Leah
Hackman |
Sencha |
Green |
175F 80C |
Japan |
May 31 |
Monday |
4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 |
Marc Bellemare |
Proto-value functions in 19 minutes and one take | Michael Joya |
Genmaicha |
Green with toasted rice |
175F 80C |
Japan |
Date | Weekday |
Time |
Location | Speaker | Topic and Comments | Host |
Tea
of
the
Day |
Type |
Temp. |
Region
of Origin |
June 3 | Thursday |
4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC
3-33 |
CANCELLED | (n.b. NIPS deadline on this day) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
June 7 | Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Elliot Ludvig |
Learning from imagined experience in spatial navigation | Martha White |
Tanzanian CTC |
Black |
200F 93C |
Tanzania |
June 10 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Adam
White |
tba | Martha White | Ceylon
CTC |
Black |
200F 93C |
Sri
Lanka |
June 14 | Monday | 5:00pm (tea at 4:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Gábor Balázs (bg) |
Mathematical background of reward shaping in reinforcement learning | Ashique Mahmood Rupam |
Nine Bend Red Dragon |
Black |
200F 93C |
Fujian, China |
June 17 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Chris Rayner | Pattern analysis: a small round trip | Ashique
Mahmood
Rupam |
Lychee
Congou |
Flavoured
Black |
200F 93C |
Congou,
China |
June 18 |
Friday |
12:00
noon (LLL) |
CSC 3-33 |
Xinhua Zhang | Distributed
Subgradient Methods for Multi-agent Online Optimization |
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June 21 | Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Hengshuai Yao | (n.b. ICML is on this day) | Hengshuai Yao |
Houjicha (Roasted Bancha) |
Roasted Greeen |
175F 80C |
Japan |
June 24 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Rich
Sutton |
(n.b. ICML is on this day) | Hengshuai
Yao |
Black
Dragon
|
Oolong |
195F 91C |
Fujian,
China |
June 28 |
Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Amir massoud Farahmand | Error Propagation for
Approximate Policy and Value Iteration |
Adam White | Himalayan Mountain Tips |
Black |
200F 93C |
Darjeeling, India |
Date | Weekday |
Time |
Location | Speaker | Topic and Comments | Host |
Tea
of
the
Day |
Type |
Temp. |
Region
of Origin |
July
1 |
Thursday |
4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC
3-33 |
CANCELLED |
(n.b. Canada Day Holiday) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
July 5 | Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 4:00pm) | CSC 3-33 | Hamid Maei |
Hilbert Space Embeddings of
Hidden Markov Models |
Hamid Reza Maei |
Orchid Oolong |
Oolong |
195F 91C |
Nantou, Taiwan (Formosa) |
July 8 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Patrick
Pilarski |
Continuous
Actor-Critic
Methods
for
Adaptive Prosthetics |
Hamid
Reza
Maei |
Golden
Yunnan |
Black |
200F 93C |
Yunnan,
China |
July 12 | Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | James Neufeld | Identifying Suspicious URLs: An
Application of Large-Scale Online
Learning |
James Neufeld |
Tie Guan Yin (Iron Goddess) |
Oolong |
195F 91C |
Anxi, China |
July 15 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Thomas Degris | Why Canada is Awesome: an extended study | James
Neufeld |
Gunpowder |
Green |
175F 80C |
China |
July 19 | Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Yasin Abbasi | Gábor Bartók |
Rerun Day (Anxi Oolong) |
Oolong |
195F 91C |
Anxi, China |
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July 22 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Anna Koop | Concept
Learning
in Animals (and why we should care)
http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/ |
Gábor
Bartók |
African
Chai
Rooibos |
Flavoured
Rooibos |
200F 93C |
Capetown,
South Africa |
July 26 |
Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Ashique Mahmood Rupam | Prelude to Finding a Good Step-Size | Anna Koop | Keemun Panda #1 |
Black |
200F 93C |
Anhui, China |
July
29 |
Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Csaba Szepesvári | Anna Koop | Pear
Green |
Flavoured
Green |
175F 80C |
Japan
(?) |
Date | Weekday |
Time |
Location | Speaker | Topic and Comments | Host |
Tea
of
the
Day |
Type |
Temp. |
Region
of Origin |
Aug. 2 |
Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) |
CSC 3-33 | CANCELLED |
(n.b. Heritage Day
Holiday) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Aug. 5 | Thursday |
4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC
3-33 |
Dale Schuurmans | Gábor
Balázs |
Golden
Pu-Erh
5yr |
Pu-Erh (Aged Black) |
200F 93C |
Yunnan,
China |
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Aug. 9 | Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 4:00pm) | CSC 3-33 | Rob Holte |
Learning Search Heuristics and
the connection to RL |
Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori |
Steeps Kashmir Chai |
Flavoured Green |
175F 80C |
China
(?) |
Aug. 12 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Mike
Delp |
How off-policy learning performance changes as the target and behavior policies get farther apart. | Yasin
Abbasi-Yadkori |
Leopard
Snow Buds |
White |
185F 85C |
Fujian,
China |
Aug. 16 | Monday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Xin Xu |
Introduction to Xin's RL
interests |
Marc Bellemare |
White Monkey Paw |
White |
185F 85C |
Fujian, China |
Aug. 19 | Thursday | 4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | CANCELLED | (n.b. cancelled because of iCore banff
summit) |
Marc
Bellemare |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Aug. 23 | Monday |
4:00pm (tea at 3:45pm) | CSC 3-33 | Rich
Sutton |
Last Tea-Time Talk of Summer 2010 | Chris
Rayner |
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