Michael Bowling

@RichardSSutton Congrats! And thank you (and Andy)!

awards.acm.org/about/2024-tur… Machines that learn from experience were explored by Alan Turing almost eighty years ago, which makes it particularly gratifying and humbling to receive an award in his name for reviving this essential but still nascent idea.

@richardssutton has received the A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science. How did he get here, and what’s next for this Amii Fellow & Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair? Read more: hubs.la/Q039ws7h0 #AI #ReinforcementLearning #TuringAward

@JQWang2020 @jtadkins49 It’s now up on arxiv… arxiv.org/abs/2412.07165

@jtadkins49 This work is very meaningful. Can you share the arxiv link of the paper? thk

Is there a hyperparameter crisis in reinforcement learning? Let's talk about it at NeurIPS. #NeurIPS2024

@RichardYRLi We will check it out! Thanks!

@MichaelHBowling Our ICML24 work directly addresses this concern. Effective RL is possible with dramatic simplification: 20x fewer parameters, 7x fewer samples (figure 1), and removal of many conventional tricks (table 3) - while still achieving human-level performance. arxiv.org/abs/2402.10228

There needs more thinking on this! Find us in the poster session Wednesday @ 4:30pm #6500.

@UAlberta is doing an AI Cohort Hire for 20+ faculty positions all across campus, with a specific focus on AI+Science, e.g., drug discovery.  Successful candidates will be nominated for a CIFAR AI Chair with generous funding!  Find out more: apps.ualberta.ca/careers/postin….

I was evacuated from #Jasper while camping with my husband and two young kids this week. This is my #jasperwildfire story. We arrived at Wabasso campground Sunday afternoon. It was 34 degrees, and the man at the check in booth was sweating profusely in the heat. He (1/22)

While there's real concerns about generative AI and game dev, there's also so many new opportunities for radically new game experiences. Can't wait to see what's next, @ArtificialAgncy.

Super excited that I've gotten to see behind the scenes of what they're doing. This is an amazing team (and I've been lucky to work with many of them) doing amazing things!

Are rewards always observable to the agent? At #AAMAS 2024, I'll present Mon-MDP a novel framework where rewards are not always observable to the agent Collaboration with Simone Parisi, Alireza Kazemipour Matthew Taylor @MichaelHBowling arxiv.org/abs/2402.06819

Thrilled to announce the first annual Reinforcement Learning Conference @RL_Conference, which will be held at UMass Amherst August 9-12! RLC is the first strongly peer-reviewed RL venue with proceedings, and our call for papers is now available: rl-conference.cc.

Excited to announce our @RL_Conference workshop, Finding the Frame 🖼️. We encourage submissions reflecting broadly on the conceptual foundations of RL and their impact on framing problems. See the thread below and follow our account for more info!

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This is a great team doing great stuff!

@TheEsraaSaleh @pcastr @apsarathchandar @AaronCourville @GlenBerseth @khimya @white_martha @MarlosCMachado Thanks @TheEsraaSaleh. It’s an honour to be on a list with such esteemed company.

Getting many questions on profs to consider for grad school near my research interests. Here's a randomly ordered list of ppl I'd consider: @pcastr, @apsarathchandar, @AaronCourville, @GlenBerseth, @MichaelHBowling, @khimya, @white_martha, Matt Taylor, @MarlosCMachado, Adam White

@GlenBerseth @RL_Conference I’m really excited for this! We as a community can make this awesome!

Thrilled to announce the first annual Reinforcement Learning Conference @RL_Conference, which will be held at UMass Amherst August 9-12! RLC is the first strongly peer-reviewed RL venue with proceedings, and our call for papers is now available: rl-conference.cc.

after many years of work, I've very excited that our general game playing algorithm, Student of Games, is being published in Science Advances today in it, we present a general algorithm for games of both perfect and imperfect information (work was done while I was at DeepMind)

⚽🌐🕸️🤖 arXiv:2310.10553 arxiv.org/abs/2310.10553

@AmiiThinks @ID_AA_Carmack I'm super excited to get to sit down with one of the first innovators to blow my mind🤯... all the way back in the summer of 1992. #wolfenstein3d

Join Michael Bowling for a casual conversation with @ID_AA_Carmack about innovation in games, open source, virtual reality, rockets, and his vision for the future of #AI on September 25 from 5 - 5:45 p.m. RSVP here: hubs.la/Q0232HrX0

@TheEsraaSaleh 🚀I have no doubts.

Successfully defended my MSc thesis! 🎉 What a journey♥️ Incredibly grateful to my supervisor, @MichaelHBowling, for his thoughtful mentorship. Now, I look forward to pay it forward! I hope to be what you envisioned for your students: people of vision, ambition and leadership🚀