Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc). Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊

Reading group is back for those interested in RL/MARL/agents/open-endedness and alike... First session today at 3pm BST, Mattie Fellows is presenting the Simplifying TD learning/PQN paper. 🎉 Meeting link: bit.ly/4lfdaGR Sign up: bit.ly/40xNQDR

We are HALFWAY there! Thanks to all those who've kindly contributed 🙏🙏 With Indaba <4 weeks away, let's send all the 25 African researchers to their dream conference! Donate what you can: donorbox.org/mlc-nigeria-de…

RL reading group TODAY @ 15:00 BST 🔥 Speaker: Cam Allen Cam Allen (Postdoc, UC Berkeley) Title: The Agent Must Choose the Problem Model Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group

📣 The official press release for #DLI2025 is here! We’re heading to Kigali to connect 1000+ brilliant minds shaping the future of AI in Africa 🌍 Read more about what’s coming: 🔗deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2025/07/p… #Indaba2025 #Urunana

We are thrilled to announce our next keynote speaker Max Welling , Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Visiting Professor at Caltech and CTO & Co-Founder of CuspAI. Catch his talk “How AI could transform the sciences” on August 18 at 4:30 PM GMT+2. 🌐 Register online

🇨🇦 Heading to RL_Conference next week to present HyperMARL (CoCoMARL workshop) and Remember Markov (Finding The Frame Workshop) . If you are around, hmu, happy to chat about Multi-Agent Systems (MARL, agentic systems), open-endedness, environments, or anything related! 🎉

🌟 Celebrating Excellence in African AI at #DLI2025 We are proud to announce the recipients of the Deep Learning Indaba Awards 2025, recognising exceptional contributions to African AI research, innovation, and community impact. These awards honour individuals whose work

A truly thought-provoking keynote at #DLI2025 by Verena Rieser ! Her talk, "Whose Gold?", challenged the idea of a single “gold standard” for AI alignment. It was a powerful call to action: moving beyond narrow safety metrics to embrace a pluralistic approach that accounts for

What an incredible keynote by Prof. Max Welling! He’s challenging us to look beyond chatbots to the "fifth paradigm of scientific discovery": AI4Science. His talk explores how AI is transforming everything from predicting the weather to accelerating molecular simulations,

Great first couple of days at DLI @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social in Kigali 🇷🇼, some highlights include awesome keynotes by Verena Rieser and Max Welling , great pracs and tuts, and of course the opening party ( before the rain 😢) 🎉 #DLI2025

Cool culture celebration party at #DLI2025 Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali.

I'm beyond honoured to be included on TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2025! #TIME100AI time.com/collections/ti…

I'm starting a new project. Working on what I consider to be the most important problem: building thinking machines that adapt and continuously learn. We have incredibly talent dense founding team + are hiring for engineering, ops, design. Join us: adaptionlabs.ai

Thrilled to share our new #NeurIPS2025 paper done at Google DeepMind, Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment We prove every agent faces a trade-off between its capacity to adapt (plasticity) and its capacity to steer (empowerment) Paper: david-abel.github.io/plasticity.pdf 🧵🧵🧵👇

Reading group today at 2pm BST! We are starting our NeurIPS series with Sable and Oryx, sequence models for scalable multi-agent coordination from the RL Research Team at InstaDeep . 🚀 Papers: bit.ly/3Lme7jH bit.ly/47GJb4T Meeting: bit.ly/3JoEbtU

Honestly, it feels pretty wild being in a Waymo. Surprised by how smooth the ride was and how quickly I felt comfortable in the car 😮