Group Meetings
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Spring 2019
When: Monday 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Where: Kingsbury N242
| Date | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | Introduction | Marek |
| Feb 04 | Optimism in the Face of Value Functions | Reazul and Tianyi |
| Feb 11 | Adversarial Attacks on Neural Policies | Shayan |
| Feb 18 | Performance Loss Bounds for Approximate Value Iteration with State Aggregation | Soheil |
| Feb 25 | Compressible machine learning | Bahram |
| Mar 04 | R-rectangular | Saba |
| Mar 11 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 18 | Greenhouse and other stuff | Sangeeta or Chris |
| Mar 25 | Robustness to confounding factors | Monkie |
| Apr 01 | Space physics | Samantha |
| Apr 08 | Saddle point methods for RL (SBEED) | Marek |
| Apr 15 | Original work: L1 Linf | Bahram |
| Apr 22 | Pick later | Reazul |
| Apr 29 | Distributional heuristic functions | Tianyi |
| May 06 | Practice talks | Someone |
Fall 2018
When: Monday 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: Kingsbury N233
| Date | Day | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 | Mon | Summer Review | |
| Sep 17 | Mon | Planning in the Presence of Cost Functions Controlled by an Adversary | Jason |
| Sep 24 | Mon | Bayesian Distributional Robustness | Marek |
| Oct 01 | Mon | A data-driven, machine learning framework for optimal pest management in cotton | Chris |
| Oct 09 | Tue | Policy Conditioned Uncertainty Sets for Robust MDPs | Bahram |
| Oct 15 | Mon | Canceled | |
| Oct 22 | Mon | (More) Efficient Reinforcement Learning via Posterior Sampling | Tianyi |
| Oct 29 | Mon | Reinforcement learning with basis construction … | Soheil |
| Nov 05 | Mon | Finding Magnetopause | Samantha |
| Nov 12 | Mon | Veteran’s day | |
| Nov 19 | Mon | Bayesian robust RL | Reazul |
| Nov 26 | Mon | Optimization for Greenhouses | Chris |
| Dec 03 | Mon | Canceled | |
| Dec 10 | Mon | NIPS report | Marek and Reazul |
Summer 2018
When: Wednesday 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: Kingsbury N233
Also: Pizza
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| May 16 | Marek (Andreas) | Computing Robust Strategies for Managing Invasive Plants |
| May 23 | Marek | Fast Robust Bellman Updates |
| May 30 | Coral (Rachel) | Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Rural Environments without Detailed Prior Maps |
| June 6 | Bahram (Jordan) | Low-Rank Value Function Approximation for Co-optimization of Battery Storage |
| June 13 | Jason (Shayan) | Minimax Regret Bounds for Reinforcement Learning |
| June 20 | Monkie | MDPs for Playing Blackjack |
| June 27 | Shayan | MaxLike for Species Distribution Models |
| July 4 | No meeting |
Spring 2018
When: Wednesday 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Kingsbury N233
Also: Refreshments
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 21 | Bahram | Sparsity and LASSO |
| Feb 28 | Reazul | Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning |
| Mar 21 | Jordan | Robust and Efficient Transfer Learning with Hidden Parameter Markov Decision Processes |
| Mar 28 | Coral | Adaptive Neural Network Control of AUVs With Control Input Nonlinearities Using Reinforcement Learning |
| Apr 4 | Shayan | Safe Policy Improvement by Minimizing Robust Baseline Regret |
| Apr 11 | Marek | Risk-aversion tutorial |
| Apr 18 | Rachel | PAC Optimal MDP Planning with Application to Invasive Species Management |
| Apr 25 | Jason | Safe Policy Improvement with Baseline Bootstrapping |
| May 2 | Bahram | Markov decision processes |
| May 9 | Marek | How to be a graduate student |
Winter 2018
Joint meetings with Wheeler’s group.
When: Wednesday 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: Kingsbury N233
Also: Pizza
| Date | Paper |
|---|---|
| Jan 3 | DESPOT |
| Jan 10 | Robust MDPs |
| Jan 17 | TDTS |
Fall 2017
When: Friday 10:00am - 11:00am
Where: Kingsbury N233
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 01 | Marek | Fast s-rectangular robustness |
| Sep 08 | Bahram | Linear feature encoding |
| Sep 15 | Bence | Meeting canceled, Bence at robotics seminar: 12:10-1pm in Kingsbury N101 |
| Sep 22 | Jordan | Meta-modeling and spatial analysis |
| Sep 29 | (Hala) | |
| Oct 06 | Reazul | Bayesian robust ambiguity sets |
| Oct 13 | Andreas | Maximum entropy for species distributions |
| Oct 20 | Marek | Minimizing Regret in MDPs |
| Oct 27 | Bence + Jordan | Active learning and MaxEnt |
| Nov 03 | Talha | Practical Precautionary Resource Management Using Robust Optimization |
| Nov 10 | Veteran’s day | |
| Nov 17 | Nobody | |
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 01 | Jordan | |
| Dec 08 | Bence | LinUCB |