Doina Precup

In this engaging conversation, Doina Precup, a Research team lead at DeepMind Montreal and a professor at McGill University, dives into her research on hierarchical and continual reinforcement learning. She discusses how agents can learn abstract representations and the critical role of reward specifications in shaping intelligent behaviors. Doina draws intriguing parallels between hierarchical RL and CNNs while exploring the challenges and future of reinforcement learning in dynamic environments, all while emphasizing the importance of adaptability and multi-level reasoning.