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TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Hear about why OpenAI cites her work in RLHF and dialog models, approaches to rewards in RLHF, ChatGPT, Industry vs Academia, PsiPhi-Learning, AGI and more!

Dr Natasha Jaques is a Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain.

Featured References

Way Off-Policy Batch Deep Reinforcement Learning of Implicit Human Preferences in Dialog
Natasha Jaques, Asma Ghandeharioun, Judy Hanwen Shen, Craig Ferguson, Agata Lapedriza, Noah Jones, Shixiang Gu, Rosalind Picard

Sequence Tutor: Conservative Fine-Tuning of Sequence Generation Models with KL-control
Natasha Jaques, Shixiang Gu, Dzmitry Bahdanau, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Richard E. Turner, Douglas Eck

PsiPhi-Learning: Reinforcement Learning with Demonstrations using Successor Features and Inverse Temporal Difference Learning
Angelos Filos, Clare Lyle, Yarin Gal, Sergey Levine, Natasha Jaques, Gregory Farquhar

Basis for Intentions: Efficient Inverse Reinforcement Learning using Past Experience
Marwa Abdulhai, Natasha Jaques, Sergey Levine

Additional References

• Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences, Daniel M. Ziegler et al 2019
• Learning to summarize from human feedback, Nisan Stiennon et al 2020
• Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback, Long Ouyang et al 2022