Panel: The future of reinforcement learning

Speakers: Geoff Gordon, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University Craig Boutilier, Principal Scientist, Google Sham Kakade, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC Joelle Pineau, Managing Director, Facebook AI Research; Associate Professor, McGill University Csaba Szepesvari, Team Lead, DeepMind; Professor, University of Alberta This panel brings together a variety of experts from industry and academia to discuss the question, what is the future of reinforcement learning Reinforcement learning is an important research area in AI currently, and it has been an important research area in human and animal behavior since at least the middle of the 20th century. More recently, reinforcement learning research has been energized by a series of positive results, often based on deep models, in areas such as personalization and gameplaying. However, there remain a wide variety of open questions, both theoretical a