Finetuning via Experiential RL, and Nonaga Game Rules
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The MLAI Meetup is a community for AI researchers and professionals which hosts monthly talks on exciting research. Our format is:
- 6:00 - 6:20: Socializing
- 6:20 - 6:40: Announcements and AI news
- 6:40 - 7:40: Talk(s) and Q&A
- 7:40 - 8:00 Networking
- 8:00: Head to the nearest pub for dinner
Abed Karim: "Using tools like Claude Code to finetune opensource models in specific Domains via RL, GRPO"
Talk description and speaker bio TBA
Javier Candeira: "A No Name Game called Nonaga"
Talk description: Nonaga is a 2008 board game by Viktor Bautista i Roca. It's a two-player full-information turn-taking game with a twist: at every turn, each player gets to move a piece and also to reconfigure the game board!
Javier will introduce the rules and bring sets for people to try them out, as a preview of his future talk introducing a Nonaga-playing Alpha-Zero style engine.
Speaker Bio: Javier Candeira is a software engineer, entrepreneur, public speaker, conference organiser, and a lifelong student of way too many topics, including machine learning.