2021-10-06 15:30:00 2021-10-06 16:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis IE FALL SEMINAR Towards a theory of representation learning for reinforcement learning Alekh Agarwal, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/95588735613?pwd=ZFEyRThieG1MV0RPZ29UVEpJaFoydz09
IE FALL SEMINAR
Towards a theory of representation learning for reinforcement learning
Event Date: | October 6, 2021 |
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Time: | 3:30 pm EDT |
Location: | https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/95588735613?pwd=ZFEyRThieG1MV0RPZ29UVEpJaFoydz09 |
Priority: | No |
School or Program: | Industrial Engineering |
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ABSTRACT
BIOGRAPHY
Alekh Agarwal is a researcher who works on theoretical foundations of machine learning, spanning many areas including large-scale and distributed optimization, high-dimensional statistics, online learning, and most recently reinforcement learning. He focuses on designing theoretically sound methods which lend themselves to practice, and his work at Microsoft has resulted in the creation of a new Azure service that operationalizes some of his reinforcement learning research. His work has been recognized with a NeurIPS best paper award and an ACM SIGAI Industry Impact award for his work on the Azure Personalization Service.