SUMMER 2025

1) May 23rd - Agenda for Summer

2) May 30th - Intro to Pong and Gymnasium (presented by Lain)

• Slides
• Code
• Karpathy’s write-up on Pong

3) June 6th - Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning (presented by Nolan)

• DQN Paper
• Slides

4) June 13th - Learning Complex Dexterous Manipulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Demonstrations (presented by Lain)

• Paper
• Slides

5) June 20th - Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference: Tutorial and Review (presented by Will)

• Paper

6) June 27th - Implementing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF): Best Practices and Challenges (presented by Lain)

• Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
• Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

7) July 4th - NO MEETING

8) TBA