Outstanding Paper Award Winners - 2/2 @ RLC 2025

We caught up with the RLC Outstanding Paper award winners for your listening pleasure.

Recorded on location at Reinforcement Learning Conference 2025, at University of Alberta, in Edmonton Alberta Canada in August 2025.

Featured References

Empirical Reinforcement Learning Research

Mitigating Suboptimality of Deterministic Policy Gradients in Complex Q-functions

Ayush Jain, Norio Kosaka, Xinhu Li, Kyung-Min Kim, Erdem Biyik, Joseph J Lim

Applications of Reinforcement Learning

WOFOSTGym: A Crop Simulator for Learning Annual and Perennial Crop Management Strategies

William Solow, Sandhya Saisubramanian, Alan Fern

Emerging Topics in Reinforcement Learning

Towards Improving Reward Design in RL: A Reward Alignment Metric for RL Practitioners

Calarina Muslimani, Kerrick Johnstonbaugh, Suyog Chandramouli, Serena Booth, W. Bradley Knox, Matthew E. Taylor