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Meta-reinforcement learning

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Meta learning allows for generalisation across tasks and has become increasingly relevant as machine learning systems are asked to solve heterogeneous problems efficiently with less training data. In recent years, meta learning has been applied in the context of reinforcement learning to build agents that learn to generalise across a distribution of Markov decision problems. In this reading group, we will briefly introduce the basics of meta reinforcement learning, cover different approaches to the problem, and discuss their uses and limitations. We will also consider how they compare to more traditional algorithms, both learned and hand-crafted.

Recommended reading:

- Wang et al. 2016 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05763) OR Duan et al. 2016 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02779).

- Finn et al. 2017 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03400). Nagabandi et al. 2019 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11347).

- This blog post also provides an overview of several of the topics we will cover: https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2019/06/23/meta-reinforcement-learning.html

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