[Apr. 11th] Seminar by Ms. Ozgur Simsek (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Autonomous Development of Skill Hierarchies
- Speaker: Ms. Ozgur Simsek
- Location: Campbell Hall 430
- Date: Friday, April 11
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Seminar Abstract
The broad problem I will address in this talk is design of autonomous agents
that are able to efficiently learn how to achieve desired behaviors in large,
complex environments. I will focus on one essential design component: the
ability to form high-level actions, or skills, from available primitives. I
will characterize a useful class of skills in terms of general properties of
an agent's interaction with its environment---in contrast to specific
properties of a particular environment. I will also describe methods
artificial agents can use to identify and acquire such skills autonomously.
Speaker Biography
Ozgur Simsek is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department of the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses on machine
learning, artificial intelligence, and network science.
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