RSS18-CIR: R:SS 2018 Workshop on Causal Imitation in Robotics Carnegie Music Hall, CMU Pittsburgh, PA, United States, June 30, 2018 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/rss18-causal-imitation |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rss18cir |
Submission deadline | June 7, 2018 |
Final Decisions | June 9, 2018 |
Camera Ready | June 11, 2018 |
This workshop will serve as a platform to discuss the impact and merit of algorithmic techniques in Imitation Learning and Causal Inference and their applications in robotics. We invite submissions advancing the theory, abstractions and systems in both imitation and causality for robotics.
Recent research has reiterated the efficiency of imitation learning based methods over RL for learning in physical domains as well as addressing problems of limited non-i.i.d. data in Imitation. At the same time research in causality has resulted in promising abstractions for robotics. There is an exciting opportunity in combining these ideas to achieve generalization -- whereby imitation guides task representations, and causality enables exploration for generalization.
Topics of Interest
Broadly defined list of topics include, but are not limited to, the following
- Sample Efficiency in Imitation Learning
- Hybrid Reinforcement and Imitation learning
- Reinforcement learning with links to causal inference and counterfactual reasoning
- Interfaces of agent-based systems and causal inference
- Structure Representations in Robotics: Perception, Planning, and Control
- Causal Inference
- Discriminative learning vs. generative modeling in counterfactual settings
- Interactive experimental control vs. counterfactual estimation
- Uncertainty representations in Deep Learning for robotics
- Learning Models and System Identification
- Combining Model-free and Model-based Methods
- Efficient and safe exploration in model-based methods
- Generative models of dynamics
Submission Information and Important Dates
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: June 3
- Decisions: June 9
- Camera Ready: June 11 (Regular Registration Deadline)
- Workshop: June 30
Submission Info:
We solicit 2-4 page extended abstracts conforming to the official RSS style guidelines. A paper template is available in LaTeX and Word.
Submissions can include: late-breaking results, under review material, archived, or previously accepted work (please make a note of this in the submission).
Please note the accepted contributions will be presented in an interactive poster format (non-archival). A small set of these will be featured as spotlight talks.
The accepted contributions and posters will be posted on the workshop website upon author approval.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/cfp/rss18-cir
Organizing Committee
Venue
The conference will be held at the Carnegie Music Hall next to CMU
Carnegie Museum & Library
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Animesh Garg at garg@cs.stanford.edu with subject: "RSS18-CIR: [Your question here]"