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Episode Synopsis
Shimon Whiteson is a Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University, the head of WhiRL, the Whiteson Research Lab at Oxford, and Head of Research at Waymo UK. Featured References VariBAD: A Very Good Method for Bayes-Adaptive Deep RL via Meta-Learning Luisa Zintgraf, Kyriacos Shiarlis, Maximilian Igl, Sebastian Schulze, Yarin Gal, Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson Monotonic Value Function Factorisation for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Tabish Rashid, Mikayel Samvelyan, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Gregory Farquhar, Jakob Foerster, Shimon Whiteson Additional References Shimon Whiteson - Multi-agent RL, MIT Embodied Intelligence Seminar The StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge, Samvelyan et al 2019 Direct Policy Transfer with Hidden Parameter Markov Decision Processes, Yao et al 2018 Value-Decomposition Networks For Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning, Sunehag et al 2017 Whiteson Research Lab Waymo acquires Latent Logic to accelerate progress towards safe, driverless vehicles, Oxford News Waymo
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