Welcome to our March 2021 monthly digest where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, get the low-down on recent conferences, and much more.
Nearly all real-world applications of reinforcement learning involve some degree of shift between the training environment and the testing environment, and it is increasingly important to learn policies that are robust to these changes.
Our method learns a task in a fixed, simulated environment and quickly adapts to new environments (e.g. the real world) solely from online interaction during deployment.
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Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode...
From left to right, the research team of Morgana Vighi, Odei García-Garin and Bertrand Bouchard. Photo credit: Àlex Aguilar (University of Barcelona - IRBio)
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As part of our ongoing focus on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), we are launching the next topic in this series: life below water. Posts on this topic will be...
Data Science Nigeria is a non-profit with the aim of developing Nigeria’s AI ecosystem and positioning the country as a world-class destination for AI research. Part of...
What’s hot on arXiv? Here are the most tweeted papers that were uploaded onto arXiv during March 2021.
Results are powered by Arxiv Sanity Preserver....
Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Michael Milford tells us about his research, the field of robotic navigation, and his published books.
By Rianne Lindhout
With the search for new antibiotics becoming increasingly urgent, artificial intelligence offers valuable help. Smart software developed by Leiden P...
In this post we conclude our summaries of the NeurIPS invited talks from the 2020 meeting. In this final instalment, we cover the talks by Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zurich) a...
In this final interview in the series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Ricardo Chavarriaga, head of the CLAIRE office in Switzer...
The Turing Institute is the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. On 23-24 March they held an event to showcase the very best AI academic ...
The Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) seeks to advance the AAAI goal of improving the teaching and training of AI practitioners. Organiz...
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By Maruan Al-Shedivat
TL;DR: motivated to better understand the fundamental tradeoffs in federated learning, we present a probabilistic perspective th...
Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode...
In this penultimate interview in the series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Marco Aldinucci, Computer Science Department, Unive...
Photo by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash
Michael Wooldridge is the winner of the 2021 Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) Outstanding Educator Award...
This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 15 March and 30 April 2021. All events detailed here are free and open for a...
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Standard single-step models have a horizon of one. This post describes a method for training predictive dynamics models in continuous state spaces with an in...
At AAAI 2021, Daphne Koller gave a plenary talk about digital learning. In this presentation she discussed the different motivations for online learning, what we know abo...
In interview number six in this series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Manlio De Domenico, Head of the Complex Multilayer Netwo...
By David Isaksson
The aim of the TextAD research project at Linköping University is to better understand different types of reading difficulties. This knowledge can b...
As part of the workshop programme at NeurIPS2020, Climate Change AI (CCAI) held an all-day session on "Tackling climate change with machine learning". They also organised...
To celebrate International Women's Day, we take a look back over the past year of AIhub content and highlight some of our favourite articles, interviews, podcasts and vid...