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OpenAIOpenAI

PixelCNN++: Improving the PixelCNN with discretized logistic mixture likelihood and other modifications

Enhancing PixelCNN using discretized logistic mixture likelihood and modifications

1/19/2017
Jane StreetJane Street

How to Build an Exchange

Building an exchange and managing user demand with upcoming talks

1/11/2017
Jane StreetJane Street

A brief trip through Spacetime

An introduction to using Spacetime, a new memory profiling facility for OCaml to detect space leaks and unwanted allocations.

1/9/2017
OpenAIOpenAI

Faulty reward functions in the wild

Understanding and Mitigating Challenges with Faulty Reward Functions in Real-world Applications

12/21/2016
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Lessons in resilience at SoundCloud

Discussion on the circuit breaker pattern and client-side load balancing as essential aspects of resiliency in RPC at scale.

12/7/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

Universe

Exploring the vast realms of the universe through a technical lens.

12/5/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

#Exploration: A study of count-based exploration for deep reinforcement learning

Investigating count-based exploration techniques in deep reinforcement learning

11/15/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI and Microsoft

Exploring the collaboration between OpenAI and Microsoft in the realm of artificial intelligence.

11/15/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

On the quantitative analysis of decoder-based generative models

Exploring the quantitative analysis of decoder-based generative models

11/14/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

A connection between generative adversarial networks, inverse reinforcement learning, and energy-based models

Exploring the synergy of generative adversarial networks, inverse reinforcement learning, and energy-based models

11/11/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

RL²: Fast reinforcement learning via slow reinforcement learning

Optimizing reinforcement learning with RL² approach

11/9/2016
OpenAIOpenAI

Variational lossy autoencoder

Exploring the variational lossy autoencoder for enhanced compression and representation learning.

11/8/2016