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Wrapping up Learning Chess Biases and Proposed Next Steps

Introduction Today is the final day of my first rotation with CJ and as part of the rotation requirements, I need to write a final report. In line with some of my other assignments, I’ve decided to complete this in the form of a blog! This post will contain three Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsNovember 15, 2020 ago

Classifying Player Moves using Random Forests

Over the last week, I’ve mainly been expanding on my work from last week, with the dataset of moves represented as differences of compressed chess board states. In my blog post last week, I generated a dataset of 10 players, and plotted the results. The first thing I did this Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsNovember 8, 2020 ago

Paper Review: Learning Human Biases in IRL

In my Intro to Grad Studies class, we have been given an assignment to do an in-depth paper review for each of our rotations.  I already posted a general literature review summarizing a few papers related to my rotation research area, but this assignment is also requiring us to elaborate Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsOctober 31, 2020 ago

Compressing Chess Board States for Reinforcement Learning

Last week, I went over several papers in the area of Biased Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Fairness Criteria. I also brainstormed several possible next steps for research. After talking with CJ on Monday, we decided that the second option was the most promising – extending the ideas behind this paper Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsOctober 25, 2020 ago

Papers on Biased Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Fairness Criteria

Unlike many other PhD programs, WashU has a special rotation program to facilitate student-advisor matching, where students do a 2-4 one-month research stints with professors so the students and professors can get to know each other better before committing to a relationship for the next 4+ years. On Wednesday, I Read more…

By Saumik, 2 yearsOctober 18, 2020 ago
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  • Thoughts on my first NeurIPS December 4, 2022
  • Using GPUs and JupyterLab on the WashU RIS Cluster November 17, 2022
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  • What every computer science major should know (to get an internship) July 8, 2022
  • A Brief Guide to Maia May 23, 2021
  • Predicting Move Times in Chess – Final Report May 3, 2021
  • Predicting Move Times in Chess – Status Update April 4, 2021
  • Predicting Move Times in Chess – Intro March 14, 2021
  • Working Harder, not Smarter in Pacman February 28, 2021
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