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TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan

TalkRL podcast is All Reinforcement Learning, All the Time. In-depth interviews with brilliant people at the forefront of RL research and practice. Guests from places like MILA, MIT, DeepMin...

Episodes

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Joseph Modayil of Openmind Research Institute @ RLC 2025

Joseph Modayil is the Founder, President & Research Director of Openmind Research Institute. Featured References Openmind Research Institute...

4:27Jan 3, 2026

Danijar Hafner on Dreamer v4

Danijar Hafner was a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind until recently. Featured References Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Mode...

100:52Nov 9, 2025

David Abel on the Science of Agency @ RLDM 2025

David Abel is a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind on the Agency team, and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His researc...

59:42Sep 8, 2025

Jake Beck, Alex Goldie, & Cornelius Braun on Sutton's OaK, Metalearning, LLMs, Squirrels @ RLC 2025

Recorded at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025 at University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta Canada. Featured References Lecture on the Oak...

12:20Aug 19, 2025

Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 2/2 @ RLC 2025

We caught up with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners for your listening pleasure. Recorded on location at Reinforcement Learning Confer...

14:18Aug 18, 2025

Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 1/2 @ RLC 2025

We caught up with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners for your listening pleasure. Recorded on location at Reinforcement Learning Confer...

6:46Aug 15, 2025

Thomas Akam on Model-based RL in the Brain

Prof Thomas Akam is a Neuroscientist at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology. He is a Wellcome Career Development Fel...

52:06Aug 4, 2025

Stefano Albrecht on Multi-Agent RL @ RLDM 2025

Stefano V. Albrecht was previously Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently serving as Director of AI at startup...

31:34Jul 22, 2025

Satinder Singh: The Origin Story of RLDM @ RLDM 2025

Professor Satinder Singh of Google DeepMind and U of Michigan is co-founder of RLDM. Here he narrates the origin story of the Reinforcement...

5:57Jun 25, 2025

NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 3

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver BC Canada. Featuring Claire Bi...

10:01Mar 9, 2025

NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 2

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver BC Canada. Featuring Jonathan...

8:48Mar 5, 2025

NeurIPS 2024 - Posters and Hallways 1

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver BC Canada. Featuring Jiaheng H...

9:32Mar 3, 2025

Abhishek Naik on Continuing RL & Average Reward

Abhishek Naik was a student at University of Alberta and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and he just finished his PhD in reinforceme...

81:40Feb 10, 2025

Neurips 2024 RL meetup Hot takes: What sucks about RL?

What do RL researchers complain about after hours at the bar? In this "Hot takes" episode, we find out! Recorded at The Pearl in downtown Va...

17:45Dec 23, 2024

RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 5

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 David Radke of t...

13:17Sep 20, 2024

RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 4

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 David Abel from...

4:52Sep 19, 2024

RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 3

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 Kris De Asis fro...

6:43Sep 18, 2024

RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 2

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 Hector Kohler fr...

15:52Sep 16, 2024

RLC 2024 - Posters and Hallways 1

Posters and Hallway episodes are short interviews and poster summaries. Recorded at RLC 2024 in Amherst MA. Featuring: 0:01 Ann Huang from H...

5:46Sep 10, 2024

Finale Doshi-Velez on RL for Healthcare @ RCL 2024

Finale Doshi-Velez is a Professor at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This off-the-cuff interview was recorde...

7:35Sep 2, 2024