PhD Defense: Intrinsically Motivated Actor-Critic for Robot Motor Learning

7 May 2020

Burhan Hafez successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Intrinsically Motivated Actor-Critic for Robot Motor Learning" on 7th May. The thesis shows how spatially and temporally local learning progress can be used as an intrinsic reward. This reward guides a directed exploration behavior and enables adaptive arbitration between model-based and model-free control and reliable experience imagination, improving the sample efficiency of learning vision-based robotic grasping.

Thursday, 07 May 2020, 10:00, Video-Conference (Zoom)

Speaker: Burhan Hafez, Informatics Dept., Univ. Hamburg