I was thrilled to join Microsoft at their Reinforcement Learning Day 2019 in New York City this month. Microsoft Research used Twitter, Instagram and Facebook throughout the day featuring photography in real time—this was a rewarding challenge to deliver images during each presenter.
All photos by Kristen Blush; Tweets via @MicrosoftResearch:
[From Microsoft.com] Reinforcement learning is the study of decision making with consequences over time. The topic draws together multi-disciplinary efforts from computer science, cognitive science, mathematics, economics, control theory, and neuroscience. The common thread through all of these studies is: how do natural and artificial systems learn to make decisions in complex environments based on external, and possibly delayed, feedback.
This workshop features talks by a number of outstanding speakers whose research covers a broad swath of the topic, from statistics to neuroscience, from computer science to control. A key objective is to bring together the research communities of all these areas to learn from each other and build on the latest knowledge.