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  

Scientific Understanding in Reinforcement Learning  
How Should We Meta-Learn Reinforcement Learning Algorithms?  
Alexander David Goldie, Zilin Wang, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Shimon Whiteson  

Tooling, Environments, and Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning  
Syllabus: Portable Curricula for Reinforcement Learning Agents  
Ryan Sullivan, Ryan Pégoud, Ameen Ur Rehman, Xinchen Yang, Junyun Huang, Aayush Verma, Nistha Mitra, John P Dickerson  

Resourcefulness in Reinforcement Learning  
PufferLib 2.0: Reinforcement Learning at 1M steps/s  
Joseph Suarez  

Theory of Reinforcement Learning  
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Gradient  Eligibility Traces  
Esraa Elelimy, Brett Daley, Andrew Patterson, Marlos C. Machado, Adam White, Martha White