Jakob Foerster

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Jakob Foerster on Multi-Agent learning, Cooperation vs Competition, Emergent Communication, Zero-shot coordination, Opponent Shaping, agents for Hanabi and Prisoner's Dilemma, and more.

Jakob Foerster is an Associate Professor at University of Oxford.

Featured References

Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness
Jakob N. Foerster, Richard Y. Chen, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Shimon Whiteson, Pieter Abbeel, Igor Mordatch

Model-Free Opponent Shaping
Chris Lu, Timon Willi, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Jakob Foerster

Off-Belief Learning
Hengyuan Hu, Adam Lerer, Brandon Cui, David Wu, Luis Pineda, Noam Brown, Jakob Foerster

Learning to Communicate with Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Jakob N. Foerster, Yannis M. Assael, Nando de Freitas, Shimon Whiteson

Adversarial Cheap Talk
Chris Lu, Timon Willi, Alistair Letcher, Jakob Foerster

Cheap Talk Discovery and Utilization in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Yat Long Lo, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Samuel Sokota, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Shimon Whiteson

Additional References

• Lectures by Jakob on youtube