Hi Manos, I have revised the draft along with your suggestions. Kindly review it if you get time before the proposal deadline. However, I completely understand if you don't. I'll submit the proposal about an hour before the deadline. Thanks Regards, Vedant On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 1:24 AM Vedant Kandarp Shah < f20180566 [ at ] goa [ dot ] bits-pilani [ dot ] ac [ dot ] in> wrote: > Hi Manos, > Thanks for the reminder. I will revise the proposal in a few hours and > drop a mail to you about it. It would be great if you get the time to > review, but I understand you might be busy and not get the time to do that, > which is also fine. Thanks for helping me out throughout the process :). > > Best, > Vedant > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 1:13 AM Manos Kirtas <manolis [ dot ] kirt [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> > wrote: > >> Hi Vedant, >> >> Please consider that the deadline is almost 24hours away. Do not forget >> to submit your final proposal! >> >> Best regards, >> >> Manos. >> On 10/4/21 11:29 μ.μ., Vedant Kandarp Shah wrote: >> >> Sending this to the mailing list >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Hi Manos, >> Thanks for the feedback on my previous draft. I have updated the proposal >> keeping in mind your suggestions. Would be great if you can go through it >> and give me your feedback. I have made the timeline to the best of my >> understanding. However, if you feel that it is a bit skewed with respect to >> the division of tasks, kindly let me know. >> Thanks >> >> Regards, >> Vedant >> >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:58 AM Vedant Kandarp Shah < >> f20180566 [ at ] goa [ dot ] bits-pilani [ dot ] ac [ dot ] in> wrote: >> >>> Hi Manos, >>> Thanks for the feedback on my previous draft. I have updated the >>> proposal keeping in mind your suggestions. Would be great if you can go >>> through it and give me your feedback. I have made the timeline to the best >>> of my understanding. However, if you feel that it is a bit skewed with >>> respect to the division of tasks, kindly let me know. >>> Thanks >>> >>> Regards, >>> Vedant >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 4:16 PM Vedant Shah < >>> f20180566 [ at ] goa [ dot ] bits-pilani [ dot ] ac [ dot ] in> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Manos, >>>> >>>> Sure. I didn’t get any time to update the proposal since you last >>>> reviewed it. However, I’ll update the draft today, keeping in mind your >>>> suggestions and send it back to you for feedback. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Vedant >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >>>> Windows 10 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From: *Manos Kirtas <manolis [ dot ] kirt [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >>>> *Sent: *08 April 2021 16:09 >>>> *To: *Vedant Shah <f20180566 [ at ] goa [ dot ] bits-pilani [ dot ] ac [ dot ] in> >>>> *Subject: *Re: [gsoc-developers] GSoC Projects : Deepbots >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi again, >>>> >>>> Additionally, you have to include a timeline on your proposal that it >>>> will explain what you going to do in each week of the given timeline >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Manos. >>>> >>>> On 8/4/21 1:37 μ.μ., Manos Kirtas wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Vedant, >>>> >>>> I have provided you a feedback on GDoC. Please revise your draft >>>> proposal accordingly and contact me in order to provide an up-to-dated >>>> feedback. Your proposal is well structured, I feel that you need some >>>> clarifications about what's your milestones >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> >>>> Manos. >>>> >>>> On 11/3/21 1:51 μ.μ., Vedant Shah wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Manos, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the reply and thanks a lot for all the useful tips on how to >>>> get started! I’ll start working with Webots and Deepbots straight way and >>>> will definitely get back to you for further discussion regarding this. >>>> Looking forward to working on this with you. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Vedant >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >>>> Windows 10 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From: *Manos Kirtas <manolis [ dot ] kirt [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> >>>> *Sent: *11 March 2021 04:57 PM >>>> *To: *Vedant Shah <f20180566 [ at ] goa [ dot ] bits-pilani [ dot ] ac [ dot ] in>; >>>> gsoc-developers [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr >>>> *Subject: *Re: [gsoc-developers] GSoC Projects : Deepbots >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hello Vedant, >>>> >>>> I am glad to hear that you are interested in contributing to deepbots >>>> project! Indeed, your plan seems that is the best way to be prepared for >>>> the GSoC proposal phase. First of all, feel free to contact us via email >>>> for any help or open a discussion at project's github page. In order to be >>>> familiar with webots and deepbots you can try to run and reproduce the >>>> examples included at deepworlds repository. There are extensive tutorials >>>> in deepbots-tutorials repository. If you find a bug or develop a fix you >>>> are welcome to open an issue or PR respectively. After all you can checkout >>>> the deepbots' issues which are tagged with 'ideal first issue' in order to >>>> be familiar with the codebase. >>>> >>>> Feel free to contact us for help. You can join GFOSS >>>> <https://matrix.to/#/%23gsoc2021:chat.ellak.gr?via=chat.ellak.gr&via=matrix.org> >>>> matrix channel as well. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Manos. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/3/21 5:22 π.μ., Vedant Shah wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> I am Vedant Shah, a pre-final year undergraduate student at BITS >>>> Pilani, India. I am primarily interested in two projects hosted by GFOSS >>>> for GSoC 2021: “Extend Deepbots to support stable-baseline and implement >>>> gym style default Reinforcement Learning Experiments” and “Extend Deepbots >>>> to support evolutionary algorithms”. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> A little bit on my background: I have been working in the fields of >>>> deep learning and (especially) reinforcement learning for quite some time >>>> now and have worked on / am working on several related projects and >>>> research. As a part of these, I have significant experience with working >>>> with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, tensorflow, etc. and also with >>>> tools specific to reinforcement learning such as OpenAI gym, >>>> stable-baselines, rllib, etc. I am also a core-contributors to a pytorch >>>> first reinforcement learning library. A part from reinforcement learning, I >>>> have also worked in robotics on tasks such as navigation, motion planning >>>> and control. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I have always been interested in real-world reinforcement learning and >>>> specially it’s applications in robotics. IMy avid interests in real-world >>>> RL is the main driving factor behind be choosing these projects (I’ll be >>>> happy to work on any of these). Although I am not familiar with Webots * >>>> *yet** it seems like a really actionable platform for testing out >>>> algorithms in context of robotics. I have grown familiar to deepbots over >>>> the past couple of days and am pretty confident I can pull (any of) these >>>> two projects off. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Currently I have a very rough plan of action in mind which includes >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 1. Getting comfortable with Webots (can be done before the actual >>>> work period begins) >>>> 2. Researching upon some relevant evolutionary algorithms (for eg. >>>> which have been proved to be robust to noisy data) which can be used in >>>> context of robotics >>>> 3. Start implementing those >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> For the stable-baselines project, I am already familiar and have used >>>> stable-baselines before and directly jump to integrating it once I am >>>> familiar Webots (again, this can be done before the actual work period >>>> begins). I am aware that these plan of action is not very detailed and is >>>> very unrefined. So I’d like to get in touch with the mentors Manos >>>> Kirtas, Konstantinos Tsampazis, Nikolaos Passalis to discuss the project >>>> further. Looking forward to hearing from you soon! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Vedant >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >>>> Windows 10 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> >>>> Λαμβάνετε αυτό το μήνυμα απο την λίστα: Λίστα αλληλογραφίας και συζητήσεων που απευθύνεται σε φοιτητές developers \& mentors έργων του Google Summer of Code - A discussion list for student developers and mentors of Google Summer of Code projects., >>>> >>>> https://lists.ellak.gr/gsoc-developers/listinfo.html >>>> >>>> Μπορείτε να απεγγραφείτε από τη λίστα στέλνοντας κενό μήνυμα ηλ. ταχυδρομείου στη διεύθυνση <gsoc-developers+unsubscribe [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr> <gsoc-developers+unsubscribe [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr>. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>
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