Dear Dutch Machine Learners,

Here's to reminding you all that the NeurIPS debriefing will take place at the following virtual location:

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

The speakers and topics are:

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 Alexander Ly, CWI - Overfitting Can Be Harmless for Basis Pursuit, But Only to a Degree by Peizhong Ju, Xiaojun Lin, Jia Liu

In addition to the talks, we will also have a creative intermezzo, in which Peter van der Putten (Leiden University) will showcase a creative piece using the GPT3 playground that was part of the digital gallery of the NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design 2020.

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

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Best regards,

Jack Mayo and Tim van Erven