[rocketflumes]

for more on that subject - check out this recent RL and OCT survey by Ben Recht, also from UC Berkeley: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09460

[pjrule]

Ben Recht also has an excellent series of blog posts (very related to this survey on arXiv, but broader) on the intersection between reinforcement learning and optimal control. An index is available here: http://www.argmin.net/2018/06/25/outsider-rl/

[mindcrime]

I was just reading those last night. Definitely good stuff.

[stevesimmons]

Ben Recht also gave a 2 hour tutorial on "Optimization Perspectives on Learning to Control" at ICML on 10 July. It was a great talk, loosely based on his blog posts, and very popular, with every seat filled.

His slides, references and FB livestreamed video, are here:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/l2c-icml2018/