Summer 2025

Date ↕	Title ↕	Presenter ↕	Resources
May 23rd 2025	Agenda for Summer planning
May 30th 2025	Intro to Pong and Gymnasium presentation	Lain	📊 Slides 🔗 Code 🔗 Karpathy's write-up on Pong
June 6th 2025	Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning presentation	Nolan	📊 Slides 📄 DQN Paper
June 13th 2025	Learning Complex Dexterous Manipulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning and Demonstrations presentation	Lain	📊 Slides 📄 Dexterous Manipulation Paper
June 20th 2025	Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference: Tutorial and Review presentation	Will	📊 Slides 📄 RL as Probabilistic Inference Paper
June 27th 2025	Implementing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF): Best Practices and Challenges presentation	Lain	📊 Slides 📄 Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback 📄 Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
July 4th 2025	NO MEETING break
July 11th 2025	Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning presentation	Dr. Pingali	📊 Slides 📄 Asynchronous Methods Paper
July 18th 2025	MuJoCo Playground presentation	Marie Elster	📊 Slides 📄 MuJoCo Playground Paper
July 25th 2025	Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models (Hafner et al. 2023) presentation	Will	📊 Slides 📄 Dreamer Paper
August 1st 2025	AlphaEvolve presentation	Lain	📊 Slides 📄 AlphaEvolve Paper 📄 FunSearch Paper (2023)