Safe RL 2022: Safe Reinforcement Learning Workshop at IJCAI 2022 IJCAI 2022 Vienna, Austria, July 24, 2022 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/safe-rl-2022/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saferl2022 |
Submission deadline | May 13, 2022 |
When seeking to apply RL algorithms in long-term, real world applications, they must come with analysis or guarantees about their performance and cost to the end-user, the environment, and the embodiment (e.g. robot) in which it is embedded. To bring about such safety guarantees in RL, we are organising the Safe RL 2022 workshop at IJCAI 2022. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers that are working on safe reinforcement learning systems, where safety is defined widely as avoiding self-harm, harm to the environment, significant financial or societal costs, and violations of social, ethical, or legal norms.
With this notion of safety in mind, we encourage submissions in extended abstract style on the following topics:
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Definitions of safety
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Incorporating safety, social norms, user preferences into RL policies
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Safe exploration
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Runtime verification and runtime enforcement
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Satisfying safety constraints in non-stationary environments
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Predicting safety constraint violations
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Interventions to prevent failures when RL agent is at risk with no safe options left
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Simulation platforms and data sets to help safe RL application use cases, demonstrations or problem statements.We particularly welcome use cases in robotics and virtual applications.
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Application use cases, demonstrations or problem statements. We particularly welcome use cases in robotics and virtual applications.
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Governmental policies or other aspects of the wider context to develop safety standards into artificial intelligence systems.
The call is open to submissions from a variety of disciplines relevant for safe RL, including but not limited to constrained optimisation, control theory, robust optimisation, human-robot interaction, formal methods, industrial robotics, and societal perspectives.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be anonymous and use the IJCAI author kit (see https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit). Each paper submitted should be at most 3 pages in the IJCAI double-column format.
Paper submission will take place through EasyChair. Please go to https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=saferl2022 and click on "make a new submission" to start your submission.
Authors are welcome to submit supplementary information with details on their implementation; however, reviewers are not required to consult this additional material when assessing the submission.
The workshop will allow for the submission of papers similar to papers being concurrently submitted elsewhere, as the aim of the workshop is to get an overview of the relevant ongoing work in Safe RL. However, be aware that this has to be OK for the other venue for publication as well. Note that the papers will be showcased on the website rather than on the formal proceedings so this should generally be OK.
Committees
Organizing committee
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David Bossens, University of Southampton d(dot)m(dot)bossens(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
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Bettina Koenighofer, TU Graz bettina(dot)koenighofer(at)iaik(dot)tugraz(dot)at
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Stephen Giguere, University of Texas at Austin sgiguere9(at)gmail(dot)com
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Roderick Bloem, TU Graz roderick(dot)bloem(at)iaik(dot)tugraz(dot)at