Podcast: Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Real World with Anna Goldie

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2 min readMay 7, 2024

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In this podcast, Anna Goldie, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind joins us for a discussion of deep reinforcement learning in the real world.

Anna’s current role has her working on large language model (LLM) research for Gemini and Bard. Prior to that, she worked on reinforcement learning for LLMs and retrieval-augmented LLMs at Anthropic, and was co-founder/lead of the ML for Systems team in Google Brain.

During this wide-ranging discussion, you’ll learn about her own professional journey with Google Brain, Anthropic, and Google Deepmind before getting into the core principles of deep reinforcement learning.

You’ll also explore how deep reinforcement learning can be used in large language models, reinforcement learning from human feedback, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval, LLM finetuning, and much more.

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Originally posted on OpenDataScience.com

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