Aims of the WorkshopThe Workshop will occur over three whole days, with the last session of each day dedicated to a plenary discussion targeting three important topics:
(1) The identification of the most important open challenges in the field of autonomous open-ended lifelong learning, with the aim of compiling a list of high-impact goals identified as important next-steps.
(2) The definition of one or more benchmarks for evaluating models and architectures for autonomous open-ended learning (at a later date, an open competition will be held based on the benchmark).
(3) The identification of the most promising approaches and techniques to tackle the open challenges identified under point (1).
Topics of interest - Autonomous robots lifelong learning
- Multi-task reinforcement learning
- Deep reinforcement learning
- Intrinsic motivations
- Curriculum learning
- Goal self-generation
- Multiple task solution and parameterized skills
- Neural/probabilistic representations and abstractions Architectures for open-ended learning
- Goal-based skill learning
- Knowledge transfer and avoidance of catastrophic forgetting
- Compositionality and chunking
- Hierarchies of goals and skills
- Mitigating risks of real-world deployment of open-ended learning systems
Current list of invited speakers- Baldassarre, Gianluca
- Barto, Andrew
- Bellemare, Marc
- Calinon, Sylvain
- Cangelosi, Angelo
- Konidaris, George
- Merrick, Kathryn
- Natale, Lorenzo
- O’Regan, Kevin
- Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves
- Peters, Jan
- Polani, Daniel
- Reinhart, Felix
- Rolf, Matthias
- Ruecker, Elmar
- Santucci, Vieri Giuliano
- Stulp, Freek
- Triesch, Jochen
- Uchibe, Eiji
Call for Application
Participation in the workshop is free of charge and includes the lunches for the three days. However, the workshop is limited to a restricted number of people given the capacity of the venue and the aim of the event. Prospective attendees should express their interest in participating by submitting the form downloadable from the link below, and their willingness (or not) to contribute a poster. In this case, people is also invited to submit a short/extended abstract (max 2 pages), possibly including figures. The submissions will be selected on the basis of the quality and of how well they fit the workshop’s aims.
Both senior and young researchers, including Ph.D. students, are encouraged to submit to ensure a full representation of the community.
Moreover, applicants are also requested to indicate in the form their willingness to participate in a special issue in Frontiers in Neurorobotics. This request aims to investigate the overall interest for the initiative, which will be followed by a standard Frontiers call after the workshop.
Application deadline: July 16th, 2017
Notification of acceptance: July 27th, 2017
Please submit the form downloadable here and the optional abstract (subject: “IMOL2017 submission: name, last name”) to: imol.conf@gmail.com