ERL-2018: Exploration in Reinforcement Learning: Workshop at ICML 2018 |
Website | https://sites.google.com/view/erl-2018/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erl2018 |
Exploration in Reinforcement Learning (ERL): Workshop @ ICML 2018
July 10 - 15, 2018
Stockholm, Sweden
https://sites.google.com/view/erl-2018/
Call for Papers
Exploration is a key component of reinforcement learning (RL). As RL scales up to address increasingly complex tasks, efficient exploration is increasingly important. Not only is exploration difficult, but it is difficult to even determine whether an agent is doing “good, intelligent exploration.”
The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss exploration in RL and related fields. Invited speakers will share their perspectives on what it means to do “good, intelligent exploration” and researchers will share recent work in spotlight presentations and poster sessions. These perspectives on exploration include, but are not limited to:
- Exploration in RL/bandits theory
- Exploration in RL/bandits applications (e.g. education, healthcare, robotics)
- Quantitative evaluation of exploration
- Safety and risk awareness in exploration
- Bayesian perspectives on exploration (e.g. exploration as information gain)
- Curiosity, intrinsic motivation, intuitive physics, and cognitive neuroscience
- Exploration as experimental design
- Connections between causality and exploration
- Meta-learning for learning to explore
- Exploration as unsupervised/semi-supervised learning
- Constrained exploration (e.g. robots with physical constraints)
- Hierarchical exploration (e.g. with options)
Submission and Attendance Details
We invite all researchers working on problems related to exploration to submit a 4-page paper (not including references or appendix) in PDF format using the ICML 2018 template and style guidelines. We allow papers that are currently under review to be submitted to the workshop.
Please send submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erl2018
The review process is double-blind. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or as spotlight talks. We highly encourage authors to release open-source implementations of their ideas, and we will provide links to those implementations on our website.
Important Dates
Paper submission opens: May 1, 12:00PM PST
Deadline for paper submission: May 25, 12:00PM PST
Review decisions released: June 25, 12:00PM PST
Deadline for camera ready: July 2, 12:00PM PST
Workshop: July 14 or July 15 (TBD)
If you have any questions, please contact any member of the ERL 2018 program chairs listed below.
Program Chairs
Surya Bhupatiraju (sbhupatiraju@google.com)
Benjamin Eysenbach (eysenbach@google.com)
Shixiang (Shane) Gu (sg717@cam.ac.uk)
Junhyuk Oh (junhyuk@umich.edu)
Vincent Vanhoucke (vanhoucke@google.com)
Oriol Vinyals (vinyals@google.com)
Doina Precup (doinap@google.com)