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TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

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, OpenAI, MIT, DeepMind, Berkeley, Amii, Oxford, Google Research, Brown, Waymo, Caltech, and Vector Institute. Hosted by Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan.

Episodes

In this episode of TalkRL, Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan interviews Danijar Hafner about Dreamer v4, the latest iteration in the Dreamer series of agents. Danijar details the primary achievement of Dreamer v4 as a scalable world model capable of handling real-world data and training agents offline. He explains how Dreamer...

David Abel on the Science of Agency @ RLDM 2025

08 Sep 2025

59m

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

19 Aug 2025

12m

Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 2/2 @ RLC 2025

18 Aug 2025

14m

Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 1/2 @ RLC 2025

15 Aug 2025

Thomas Akam on Model-based RL in the Brain

04 Aug 2025

52m

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In this episode of the Talk RL Podcast, host Robin Chohan interviews Professor Thomas Akam, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, about the intersection of reinforcement learning (RL) and the brain. Professor Akam discusses his research on how the brain generates flexible behavior through internal models and learning ...