Dear all,
It is my pleasure to announce a presentation in Delft by AI and Robotics expert Pieter Abbeel! This presentation is made possible by AIRlab Delft.
When: October 1, 2019
Where: Auditorium, Aula TU Delft, Mekelweg 5.
Doors open: 15:00
Start of presentation: 15:30
End of presentation and Q&A: 16:30
Title: Deep Learning to Learn (keynote about the state of the art in Reinforcement Learning)
About Pieter Abbeel
As founder of Covariant,
Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and Co-Director of the
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab, Pieter Abbeel pioneers at
the front-end of teachable AI Robotics. His work is
often featured in the press, including the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal and Tech Review. We are delighted to welcome him at the TU Delft
for a talk about “Deep Learning to Learn” for the special occasion of
opening our AI for Retail (AIR) Lab Delft.
Abstract
"Reinforcement learning and
imitation learning have seen success in many domains, including
autonomous helicopter flight, Atari, simulated locomotion, Go and
robotic manipulation. However, the amount of data required
for these methods remains very high. In contrast, humans can pick up
new skills far more quickly. To do so, humans might rely on a better
learning algorithm or on a better prior (potentially learned from past
experience), and likely on both. In this talk I will describe some recent work on meta-learning for action, where
agents learn the imitation/reinforcement learning algorithms and learn
the prior. This has enabled acquiring new skills from just a single
demonstration or just a few trials. While originally
designed for imitation and RL, our work is more generally applicable
and also advanced the state of the art in image recognition from a small
number of examples."
About AIRLab Delft
The
AI for Retail (AIR) Lab Delft is a joint TUDelft-Ahold Delhaize
industry lab consisting of a robotics research program and test site
focused on developing state-of-the-art innovations in the retail
industry. AIRLab Delft will further drive innovations for daily business
while building more knowledge of the intersection
between retail, AI and robotics. This second AIRLab location comprises a
robotics research program and test site for developing state-of-the-art
innovations in the retail industry. More info can be found
here.
Prof. dr. ir. M. (Martijn) Wisse
Director – TU Delft Robotics Institute