Dear Dutch machine learners,

This year's national NeurIPS debriefing will take place on:

Friday March 5, 2021 14h00-17h00 Via the Following Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/89293881695

PhD students and/or senior researchers will briefly present the paper they found the most interesting at NeurIPS 2020. If you are interested in NeurIPS, please consider being one of the presenters. There are still slots available.

The format is to have 3 hours of short talks (15 or 20 minutes, in English). It is not required to have attended NeurIPS, and you would usually not present your own paper. Talks can be informal, in a friendly atmosphere, so this is an ideal opportunity for PhD students to gain experience in giving presentations. The goal is to have presentations from multiple universities, and foster diologue between subdiciplines of the Dutch machine learning community.

If you are interested in giving a talk or if you have any questions, feel free to contact me at j [dot] j [dot] mayo [at] uva [dot] nl.

Preliminary list of speakers, and topics:

Mustafa Celikok, TU Delft - A Unifying View of Optimism in Episodic Reinforcement Learning by Gergely Neu, Ciara Pike-Burne Alexander Mey, TU Delft - Towards Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning in Factored Markov Decision Processes by Yi Tian, Jian Qian, Suvrit Sra Jack Mayo, University of Amsterdam - Optimal Algorithms for Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits with Heavy Tailed Rewards by Kyungjae Lee, Hongjun Yang, Sungbin Lim, Songhwai Oh

For up to date information and an overview of past meetings, see www.timvanerven.nl/neurips-debriefing/https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timvanerven.nl%2Fneurips-debriefing%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cj.j.mayo%40uva.nl%7C87b3fa572cf54ab2e18508d8bb9e194a%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637465634989419453%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=J7rxHCDYZZmUXwXMejiGz24SDD7gH%2By1F0Ce6UX18WI%3D&reserved=0

Best regards,

Jack Mayo and Tim van Erven