TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast
Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan
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Joseph Modayil of Openmind Research Institute @ RLC 2025
Joseph Modayil is the Founder, President & Research Director of Openmind Research Institute.Featured References Openmind Research Institute The Alberta Plan for AI Research Richard S. Sutton,…
Danijar Hafner on Dreamer v4
Danijar Hafner was a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind until recently.Featured References Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Models [ blog ] Danijar Hafner, Wilson Yan, Timothy…
David Abel on the Science of Agency @ RLDM 2025
David Abel is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind on the Agency team, and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His research blends computer science and philosophy, exploring…
Jake Beck, Alex Goldie, & Cornelius Braun on Sutton's OaK, Metalearning, LLMs, Squirrels @ RLC 2025
Recorded at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025 at University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta Canada.Featured ReferencesLecture on the Oak Architecture, Rich SuttonAlberta Plan, Rich Sutton with Mike…
Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 2/2 @ RLC 2025
We caught up with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners for your listening pleasure. Recorded on location at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025, at University of Alberta, in Edmonton Alberta…
Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 1/2 @ RLC 2025
We caught up with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners for your listening pleasure. Recorded on location at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025, at University of Alberta, in Edmonton Alberta…
Thomas Akam on Model-based RL in the Brain
Prof Thomas Akam is a Neuroscientist at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology. He is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford,…
Stefano Albrecht on Multi-Agent RL @ RLDM 2025
Stefano V. Albrecht was previously Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently serving as Director of AI at startup Deepflow. He is a Program Chair of RLDM 2025 and is…
Satinder Singh: The Origin Story of RLDM @ RLDM 2025
Professor Satinder Singh of Google DeepMind and U of Michigan is co-founder of RLDM. Here he narrates the origin story of the Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making meeting (not…
NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 3
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…
NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 2
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…
NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 1
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…
Abhishek Naik on Continuing RL & Average Reward
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…
Neurips 2024 RL meetup Hot takes: What sucks about RL?
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…
RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 5
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…
RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 4
Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 David Abel from DeepMind on 3 Dogmas of RL 0:55 Kevin Wang from Brown…
RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 3
Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 Kris De Asis from Openmind on Time Discretization 2:23 Anna Hakhverdyan…
RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 2
Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 Hector Kohler from Centre Inria de l'Université de Lille with…
RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 1
Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 Ann Huang from Harvard on Learning Dynamics and the Geometry of Neural…
Finale Doshi-Velez on RL for Healthcare @ RCL 2024
Finale Doshi-Velez is a Professor at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This off-the-cuff interview was recorded at UMass Amherst during the workshop day of RL…
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TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast has published 73 episodes since August 2019, covering topics in Technology.
TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 50m.
