Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceNeuro-algorithmic Policies: Can Combinatorics Help Reinforcement Learning?In this blog post we explore an application of blackbox differentiation to the setting of imitation learning, which leads to considerable…·6 min read·Apr 11, 2022--1--1
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceUnderstanding Monte Carlo EstimationMonte Carlo estimation is an essential part of a machine learning engineers’ toolbox.·7 min read·May 2, 2021----
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceFundamental Problems of Probabilistic InferenceWhy should you care about sampling if you are a machine learning practitioner?·6 min read·Aug 26, 2020----
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceNo Stress Gaussian ProcessesHow do you deal with a distribution over an infinite number of functions?·9 min read·Aug 23, 2020--1--1
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceThe Game of Life, the Legacy of John ConwayWhat is the Game of Life? What is the significance of the Game of Life? The legacy of the deceased John Conway.·5 min read·Apr 14, 2020--1--1
Marin VlastelicainResearchers’ DigestFinding Causal Models is HardWhy is it so hard to find Structural Causal Models? A DAG perspective.·7 min read·Apr 8, 2020--2--2
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceControl What You Can: Reinforcement Learning with Task Planning!Here I talk about our NeurIPS 2019 paper, combining planning with reinforcement learning agents and intrinsic motivation.6 min read·Apr 8, 2020----
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceRaMBO: Ranking Metric Blackbox OptimizationOur paper resulting in an oral at CVPR 2020 about applying the blackbox differentiation theory (codename #blackboxbackprop) to optimizing…5 min read·Apr 8, 2020----
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data Science7 Things to Think About When Developing Reinforcement LearnersAlbeit we have made very good progress in reinforcement learning research, a unified framework to compare the algorithms is missing…·5 min read·Mar 23, 2020----
Marin VlastelicainTowards Data ScienceWhat is the “Information” in Information Theory?Breaking down the fundamental concept of information.·5 min read·Feb 27, 2020--2--2