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Week Ending 9.6.2020

RESEARCH WATCH: 9.6.2020

This week was active for "Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence", with 114 new papers.

  • The paper discussed most in the news over the past week was by a team at DeepMind: "Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms" by Junhyuk Oh et al (Jul 2020), which was referenced 5 times, including in the article Remote Workforce shifting CIO Priorities in 2020, AI Ethics and GPT-3 in Medium.com. The paper got social media traction with 153 shares. The investigators introduce a new meta - learning approach that discovers an entire update rule which includes both what to predict . A user, @pcaversaccio, tweeted "#DeepMind published a paper describing a new deep reinforcement learning algorithm that discovered its own value function. I'm not sure whether I should be happy about that. This actually means that the value function could also include "destroy humanity"".

  • The paper shared the most on social media this week is by a team at DeepMind: "Grounded Language Learning Fast and Slow" by Felix Hill et al (Sep 2020) with 199 shares. The investigators show that an embodied agent situated in a simulated 3D world, and endowed with a novel dual - coding external memory, can exhibit similar one - shot word learning when trained with conventional reinforcement learning algorithms. @NPCollapse (Connor Leahy) tweeted "This paper (by et al) is really an "It's all coming together" moment for I feel. Let me try to describe my takeaways from my first readthrough. 1/14".

This week was active for "Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition", with 211 new papers.

This week was active for "Computer Science - Computers and Society", with 43 new papers.

This week was very active for "Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction", with 57 new papers.

This week was active for "Computer Science - Learning", with 265 new papers.

Over the past week, 19 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Multiagent Systems".

Over the past week, 20 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing".

Over the past week, 41 new papers were published in "Computer Science - Robotics".


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