From RL to IRL

Official Schedule Context

Today's agents have to operate in a messy reality of flaky connections, ephemeral credentials, and

irreversible actions. They need to navigate real software the way humans do: recovering from

failures, learning from feedback, and making sound judgment calls. This talk is about the

fundamental changes in RL required to make agents ready for IRL. We'll walk through what it takes

for training environments to reflect the complexity of the real world, the perception primitives

that let an agent see what a user sees, the harness pieces that help it survive contact with real

applications, and the failure modes you only discover when you stop scoring and start shipping.

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