Title: Growing the MARL software ecosystem in #JAXSpeakers : MARL Research Team
InstaDeep

Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 16h00 (GMT +2) zoomto.me/FwF7KThis crew have been doing amazing work!

Please share with anyone who may be interested.

I am extremely grateful to my co-organisers UT3 Paul Sabatier IFAS-Research, and to the speakers and the delegates from the France in South Africa National Research Foundation of South Africa Wits University and CNRS in Southern Africa for their contribution and support to the #BrAInEvolution conference. We'll share more soon!

It has been a productive and exciting week for the #EndoMap team in South
Africa! Among other things, we had the privilege to spend some time in the Cradle of Humankind and with the fossils, meet with international
colleagues and brainstorm on the future of paleoneuroscience🧠

I am very proud of these wines. My (branch of my) family's main activity for the past 500 hundred years has been wine making. However, please remember that since I took over our South African estate in 2001, ALL the profits have gone to the farm workers.

mathemafrica.org/?p=17167 on Kevin Mitchell's book Free Agents - How Evolution Gave us Free Will.

With some of my current and former Masters and PhD students at the #Indaba2023

'Sophisticated Learning' (SL) is a new extension of 'sophisticated active inference' (SI) planning algorithms. SL combines SI with elements of Bayesian RL and outperforms both on specific planning problems.
arxiv.org/abs/2308.08029
Developed by Rowan Hodson. Feedback welcome!

I just did a cool experiment using GPT to unpack some Active Inference & FEP formalisms, based on the equations for our recent paper: activeinference.org/research/resou… arxiv.org/abs/2303.04898
For this paper we made LaTeX representation of all equations, which renders nicely in Coda.…

The Mind and Matter conference in Helsinki has been an absolutely wonderful couple of days of deeply stimulating discussion and talks. helsinki.fi/en/conferences…

I gave a couple of talks recently for the general public on an introduction to Artificial Intelligence, to the Oxford University IT Learning Centre, thanks to IT Learning Centre, University of Oxford Emma Procter-Legg #FE #HE . Here's a recording of the first:
youtube.com/watch?v=vGgxnv…

OUT NOW: pre-print non-final PDF of our book 'Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches' released on official page marl-book.com. The authors (I, Filippos Christianos, Lukas Schäfer) will be at @aamas2023 & ICRA2024 in London. The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

I would like to thank my supervisors Jonathan Shock and Arnu Pretorius for their invaluable guidance on this project.

This work was made possible by the support from InstaDeep and UCT Research 🇿🇦

I am excited to be presenting a poster at @aamas2023 on our work titled 'Off-The-Grid MARL: Datasets with Baselines for Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.' 🤖

Offline MARL is a nascent field with tremendous potential to have a large, positive real-world impact 🌍

[1/3] Excited to share that our paper titled 'Selective Reincarnation in MARL' was chosen for an oral presentation at the Reincarnating RL workshop at ICLR 2024 🇷🇼 Congratulations to my co-authors from InstaDeep, Callum Rhys Tilbury, Kale-ab Tessera and Arnu Pretorius 🇿🇦

🎉Join us at the 1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind! No need to worry about carbon footprint, travel expenses, or dressing up - just bring your quirky ideas and join us online!