Andrey Kolobov
Principal Research Manager
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MoCapAct: Training humanoid robots to “Move Like Jagger”
| Nolan Wagener, Andrey Kolobov, Felipe Vieira Frujeri, Ricky Loynd, Ching-An Cheng, and Matthew Hausknecht
What would it take to get humanoid, bipedal robots to dance like Mick Jagger? Indeed, for something more mundane, what does it take to get them to simply stand still? Sit down? Walk? Move in myriads of other ways many…
SIGIR 2019 Conference: Research leads to more efficient information access, management, and retrieval
| Ryen W. White, Ahmed Awadallah, and Andrey Kolobov
Microsoft researchers are delving beyond the boundaries of information retrieval to optimize how we access and manage information in different areas. Not only are they advancing the realm most synonymous with information retrieval, search engines, but they are also researching…
Autonomous soaring – AI on the fly
| Andrey Kolobov
The past few years have seen tremendous progress in reinforcement learning (RL). From complex games to robotic object manipulation, RL has qualitatively advanced the state of the art. However, modern RL techniques require a lot for success: a largely deterministic…