Shimon Whiteson

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Shimon Whiteson is a Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University, the head of WhiRL, the Whiteson Research Lab at Oxford, and Head of Research at Waymo UK.

Featured References

VariBAD: A Very Good Method for Bayes-Adaptive Deep RL via Meta-Learning
Luisa Zintgraf, Kyriacos Shiarlis, Maximilian Igl, Sebastian Schulze, Yarin Gal, Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson

Monotonic Value Function Factorisation for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Tabish Rashid, Mikayel Samvelyan, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Gregory Farquhar, Jakob Foerster, Shimon Whiteson

Additional References

• Shimon Whiteson - Multi-agent RL, MIT Embodied Intelligence Seminar
• The StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge, Samvelyan et al 2019
• Direct Policy Transfer with Hidden Parameter Markov Decision Processes, Yao et al 2018
• Value-Decomposition Networks For Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning, Sunehag et al 2017
• Whiteson Research Lab
• Waymo acquires Latent Logic to accelerate progress towards safe, driverless vehicles, Oxford News
• Waymo