EWRL17 (2024)

The 17th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2024)

Dates:    October 28-30 2024
Location:  Toulouse, France

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Description

The 17th European workshop on reinforcement learning (EWRL 2024) organization team invites reinforcement learning researchers to participate in the 2024 edition of this world class event. We plan to make this an exciting event for researchers worldwide, not only for the presentation of top quality papers, but also as a forum for ample discussion of open problems and future research directions.

Reinforcement learning is an active field of research which deals with the problem of sequential decision
making in unknown (and often) stochastic and/or partially observable environments. Recently there has been a wealth of both impressive empirical results, as well as significant theoretical advances. Both types of advances are of significant importance and we would like to create a forum to discuss such interesting results.

The workshop will cover a range of sub-topics including (but not limited to):

• MDPs and Dynamic Programming
• Temporal Difference Methods
• Policy Optimization
• Model-based RL and Planning
• Exploration in RL
• Offline RL
• Unsupervised and Intrinsically Motivated RL
• Representation Learning in RL
• Lifelong and Non-stationary RL
• Hierarchical RL
• Partially observable RL
• Multi-agent RL
• Multi-objective RL
• Transfer and Meta RL
• Deep RL
• Imitation Learning and Inverse RL
• Risk-sensitive and robust RL
• Theoretical aspects of RL
• Empirical evaluations, applications and real-life RL

Keynote/Tutorial/Invited Speakers (TBA)

• Benjamin Eysenbach – Princeton University – USA
• Claire Vernade – University of Tuebingen – Germany
• Ahmed Touati – Meta AI – France
• Antoine Cully – Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• More to come.

Call for papers

We invite submissions to the 17th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2024). Submitted papers can present original contributions or give a summary (e.g., an extended abstract) of recent work of the authors. There will be no proceedings for EWRL 2024. As such, papers that have been submitted or published to other conferences or journals, or on-going work papers are also welcome. We welcome contributions on core RL topics and application papers.

Submissions are handled through Openreview. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee in a double-blind procedure. Final decisions will be taken by the program chairs based on the reviews. There will be no author/reviewer discussion phase. Only accepted papers will be publicly released, while rejected or withdrawn manuscripts will be kept confidential.

Submitted papers should follow the NeurIPS template adapted for EWRL linked below. There is a limit of 9 pages, excluding references and appendix. Authors of accepted papers will be allowed an additional page to prepare the camera-ready version. All accepted papers will be presented as posters.

For any questions, please contact the organizers at ewrl2024@gmail.com.

• Submission deadline: June 7th, 11:59pm AOE
• Notification of acceptance: July 31st (tentative)
• Camera ready due: September 15th (tentative)
• Page limit: 9 pages excluding references and appendix
• Paper format: [EWRL 2024 author kit]
• Paper submissions: [Openreview]

Organizing Committee

• • Emmanuel Rachelson (General Workshop and Program Chair)
    ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France
  • Emmanuelle Claeys (Local Chair and Program Chair)
    Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  • Alexandre Albore (Local Chair)
    ONERA, Toulouse, France
  • David Bertoin (Program Chair)
    IRT Saint Exupéry, Toulouse, France
  • Sylvain Cussat-Blanc (Local Chair)
    Université Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France
  • Nicolas Drougard (Program Chair)
    ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France

• Mohammad Ghavamzadeh (Local Organizing Chair)
  INRIA – Lille, France
• Remi Munos (Program Committee Chair)
  Google DeepMind, UK
• Peter Sunehag (Treasurer)
  Australian National University – Canberra, Australia
• Marco Wiering (Miscellaneous)
  University Of Groningen – Groningen, Netherlands

Program Committee

• • TBA

Keynote Speakers

• Benjamin Eysenbach – Princeton University – USA
• Claire Vernade – University of Tuebingen – Germany
• Ahmed Touati – Meta AI – France
• Antoine Cully – Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• More to come.

Accepted Papers

• • TBA

Registration

TBA

Workshop Venue

EWRL17 will be held at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, in the (beautiful) Arsenal Campus. The campus is located at the heart of the lively city of Toulouse, in South-West France.

Details coming soon.

EWRL9 is co-located with ECML PKDD 2011. It is to be held at Athens Royal Olympic Hotel, which is a family run five star property in the centre of Athens. It lays just in front of the famous Temple of Zeus and the National Gardens. It is underneath the Acropolis and only 2 minutes walk to the new Athens Acropolis Museum.
After its complete renovation that finished in 2009, the Royal Olympic was transformed to an art hotel very elegantly decorated and more important very well looked after in every detail. One of the aspects given particular attention to, was to create a very personal hotel and as much environmentally friendly as possible.

Keynote speaker Csaba Szepesvari’s world view.
The audience listening in awe.
Keynote speaker Peter Auer’s regret is bounded.

The audience tries to follow his proof.

The organizers are all ears.

Keynote speaker Kristian Kersting indulges in exponential progress.

Keynote speaker Peter Stone’s heavy traffic vision: 12-lanes and 4-way green light.

Such bold vision requires some lighter refreshments at the buffet.

Lively discussion at the poster evening.

Lively discussion at the poster evening.

Lively discussion at the poster evening.

Sponsors

TBA

We thank the following sponsors for their generous support which allowed us to make the workshop accessible to everyone.