Understanding Species Abundance Distributions in Complex Ecosystems of Interacting Species

no code implementations • 2 Mar 2021 • Jim Wu, Pankaj Mehta, David Schwab

Niche and neutral theory are two prevailing, yet much debated, ideas in ecology proposed to explain the patterns of biodiversity.

Learning to Share and Hide Intentions using Information Regularization

1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2018 • DJ Strouse, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Josh Tenenbaum, Matt Botvinick, David Schwab

We show how to optimize these regularizers in a way that is easy to integrate with policy gradient reinforcement learning.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1