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SUMMARY:EPFL Neuro Symposium // Surprise\, Curiosity and Reward: from Neur
 oscience to AI
DTSTART:20210208T140000
DTEND:20210209T190000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:See list below\nThis event has been recorded and is available 
 on-line :\n\n	Day 1 - 8 February 2021 : https://mediaspace.epfl.ch/media/0
 _o6f8o5je\n	 \n	Day 2 - 9 February 2021 : https://mediaspace.epfl.ch/medi
 a/0_fjydj2ff\n	 \n\nReward is key in models of reinforcement learning. Ho
 wever\, humans also learn in the absence of reward\, for example\, driven 
 by curiosity\, e.g.\, we acquire knowledge about the lay-out of a city by 
 walking around. But then the question arises: can we integrate curiosity-d
 riven behavior into the framework reinforcement learning? Is curiosity the
  same as novelty-seeking? Or is it surprise-seeking? Is intrinsic motivati
 on just an internal reward or something else?\n\nIn neuroscience and psych
 ology\, reinforcement learning algorithms are used to explain human brain 
 activity and behavior while in artificial intelligence\, they are used to 
 learn to play complex games (amongst other applications). This workshop br
 ings together researchers from both neuroscience and AI\, since notions of
  curiosity and surprise have been used in both domains to address learning
  in volatile environments and in tasks where reward is sparse and of unkno
 wn value.\n\nList of speakers (in alphabetical order):\n\n\n	Andrew Barto\
 , Computer Science\, University of Massachusetts\n	Marc G. Bellemare\, Com
 puter Science\, Google Brain\n	Wulfram Gerstner\, Computational Neuroscien
 ce\, EPFL\n	Jacqueline Gottlieb\, Neuroscience\, Columbia University\n	Tom
  Griffiths\, Psychology\, Princeton\n	Etienne Koechlin\, Cognitive Neurosc
 ience\, ENS Paris\n	Alireza Modirshanechi\, Brain-Mind Institute\, EPFL\n	
 Dirk Ostwald\, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience\, Berlin\n	Deepak Path
 ak\, Computer Science\, CMU\n	Eliana Vassena\, Neuroscience\, Donders\n\nC
 ommitee members\n\n\n	Wulfram Gerstner\, Computational Neuroscience\, EPFL
 \n	Michael Herzog\, Psychophysics Laboratory\, EPFL\n	Johanni Brea\, Compu
 tational Neuroscience\, EPFL\n	Mackenzie Mathis\, Adaptative Motor Control
 \, EPFL\n	Alexander Mathis\, Computational neuroscience & AI\,  EPFL\n\nM
 oderators\n\n\n	Michael Herzog\, Psychophysics Laboratory\, EPFL\n	Johanni
  Brea\, Computational Neuroscience\, EPFL\n	Mackenzie Mathis\, Adaptative 
 Motor Control\, EPFL\n\nQ&A with information/links from Monday 8 February 
 talks: BMI_08.02_Q&R
LOCATION:Online
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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