Will Dabney – Advances in Distributional Reinforcement Learning And Connections With Planning
Channel: PRL Workshop – Planning and Reinforcement Learning
Date: 2020-10-23

Will Dabney, DeepMind
Title: Advances in Distributional Reinforcement Learning And Connections With Planning

Invited talk at the workshop "Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL)" – ICAPS 2020
https://icaps20subpages.icaps-conference.org/workshops/prl/

Abstract:
Distributional Reinforcement Learning has seen continued research progress in recent years, largely focused on either theoretical analysis or developing new, empirically validated, methods for approximating the distribution of returns. In this talk, we will discuss these recent advances, attempt to understand the reasons for their empirical success, and finally investigate connections with planning where distributional reinforcement learning may suggest promising future work.