Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
Reinforcement Learning

Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read
Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy
Reinforcement Learning

Taxation With Vector Representation: A reinforcement learning approach to better tax policy

Governments have struggled to find a tax formula that promotes prosperity without creating extremes of wealth and poverty. Can machine learning show the way?

May 13, 20201 min read
RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.
Reinforcement Learning

RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.

Which comes first, training a reinforcement learning model or extracting high-quality features? New work avoids this chicken-or-egg dilemma by doing both simultaneously.

May 6, 20201 min read
RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.
Reinforcement Learning

RL and Feature Extraction Combined: CURL combines reinforcement with contrastive learning.

Which comes first, training a reinforcement learning model or extracting high-quality features? New work avoids this chicken-or-egg dilemma by doing both simultaneously.

May 6, 20201 min read
Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.
Reinforcement Learning

Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.

An AI-driven alarm system helps rescue patients before infections become fatal. The problem: Machine learning can spot patterns in electronic health data indicating where a patient’s condition is headed that may be too subtle for doctors and nurses to catch.

April 15, 20202 min read
Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery
Reinforcement Learning

Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery

Will deep learning discover new medicines? Startups — and big-pharma partners — are betting on it. The problem: In theory, there’s a pharmacological cure for just about any ailment. In practice, discovering those therapies takes years and billions of dollars.

April 15, 20202 min read
Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.
Reinforcement Learning

Prognosis — Early Warning for Sepsis: AI can provide an early warning for sepsis.

An AI-driven alarm system helps rescue patients before infections become fatal. The problem: Machine learning can spot patterns in electronic health data indicating where a patient’s condition is headed that may be too subtle for doctors and nurses to catch.

April 15, 20202 min read
Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery
Reinforcement Learning

Treatment — The Elusive Molecule: How deep learning could speed up drug discovery

Will deep learning discover new medicines? Startups — and big-pharma partners — are betting on it. The problem: In theory, there’s a pharmacological cure for just about any ailment. In practice, discovering those therapies takes years and billions of dollars.

April 15, 20202 min read
(Science) Community Outreach: A survey of machine learning from Eric Schmidt
Reinforcement Learning

(Science) Community Outreach: A survey of machine learning from Eric Schmidt

Are your scientist friends intimidated by machine learning? They might be inspired by a primer from one of the world’s premier tech titans. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Cornell PhD candidate Maithra Raghu school scientists in machine learning in a sprawling overview.

April 8, 20201 min read
(Science) Community Outreach: A survey of machine learning from Eric Schmidt
Reinforcement Learning

(Science) Community Outreach: A survey of machine learning from Eric Schmidt

Are your scientist friends intimidated by machine learning? They might be inspired by a primer from one of the world’s premier tech titans. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Cornell PhD candidate Maithra Raghu school scientists in machine learning in a sprawling overview.

April 8, 20201 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Reinforcement Learning

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.
Reinforcement Learning

Packing Robots Get a Grip: This robot arm can handle over 10,000 different objects.

Robots are moving into a job that traditionally required the human touch.What’s new: A commercial warehouse that ships electrical supplies deployed AI-driven robotic arms from Covariant, a high-profile Silicon Valley robotics firm.

February 5, 20201 min read
Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.
Reinforcement Learning

Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.

AlphaGo Zero demonstrates superhuman performance playing Go, chess, and shogi. Models like R2D2 do the same playing classic Atari titles. A new approach to deep reinforcement learning is the first to achieve state-of-the-art results playing both board and video games.

January 15, 20202 min read
Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.
Reinforcement Learning

Two-Way Winner: MuZero AI masters both video games and board games.

AlphaGo Zero demonstrates superhuman performance playing Go, chess, and shogi. Models like R2D2 do the same playing classic Atari titles. A new approach to deep reinforcement learning is the first to achieve state-of-the-art results playing both board and video games.

January 15, 20202 min read
Yann LeCun — Learning From Observation: The power of self-supervised learning
Reinforcement Learning

Yann LeCun — Learning From Observation: The power of self-supervised learning

How is it that many people learn to drive a car fairly safely in 20 hours of practice, while current imitation learning algorithms take hundreds of thousands of hours, and reinforcement learning algorithms take millions of hours? Clearly we’re missing something big.

January 1, 20202 min read

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