TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Updated: 09 Mar 2025 • 66 episodes
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TalkRL podcast is All Reinforcement Learning, All the Time. In-depth interviews with brilliant people at the forefront of RL research and practice. Guests from places like MILA, OpenAI, MIT, DeepMind, Berkeley, Amii, Oxford, Google Research, Brown, Waymo, Caltech, and Vector Institute. Hosted by Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan.

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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: Leverag

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Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries.  Recorded at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver BC Canada.    Featuring  Jonathan Cook from University of Oxford: Artificial Generational Intelligence: Cultural Accumulation in Reinforcement Learning  Yifei Zhou from Berkeley AI Research: DigiRL: Training I

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Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries.  Recorded at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver BC Canada.    Featuring  Jiaheng Hu of University of Texas: Disentangled Unsupervised Skill Discovery for Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning  Skander Moalla of EPFL: No Representation, No Trust: Con

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Abhishek Naik was a student at University of Alberta and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and he just finished his PhD in reinforcement learning, working with Rich Sutton.  Now he is a postdoc fellow at the National Research Council of Canada, where he does AI research on Space applications.  Featured References

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What do RL researchers complain about after hours at the bar?  In this "Hot takes" episode, we find out!   Recorded at The Pearl in downtown Vancouver, during the RL meetup after a day of Neurips 2024.   Special thanks to "David Beckham" for the inspiration :)  

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Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries.  Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA.    Featuring:  0:01 David Radke of the Chicago Blackhawks NHL on RL for professional sports  0:56 Abhishek Naik from the National Research Council on Continuing RL and Average Reward  2:42 Daphne Cornelisse from

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