Show Notes
Stefano V. Albrecht was previously Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently serving as Director of AI at startup Deepflow. He is a Program Chair of RLDM 2025 and is co-author of the MIT Press textbook "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches".
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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches Stefano V. Albrecht, Filippos Christianos, Lukas Schäfer MIT Press, 2024
RLDM 2025: Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Conference Dublin, Ireland
EPyMARL: Extended Python MARL framework https://github.com/uoe-agents/epymarl
Benchmarking Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Cooperative Tasks Georgios Papoudakis and Filippos Christianos and Lukas Schäfer and Stefano V. Albrecht
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