Call for Papers NeurIPS2019 Workshop

Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/biologicalandartificialrl

Submission deadline: September 7, 11:59 PM Pacific Time, 2019

Contact: BiologicalArtificialRL@gmail.com 

We invite you to submit papers (up to 5 pages, excluding references and appendix) in the NeurIPS 2019 format. The focus of the work should relate to biological and/or artificial reinforcement learning. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Benchmark tasks that can compare/contrast capabilities of artificial vs biological agents

• Hierarchical RL/ skill learning 

• Inductive biases and priors 

• Representations for RL 

• Model-based/ Model-free learning

• Lifelong learning 

• Intrinsic motivation/ learning in absence of extrinsic rewards

• Role of memory in learning

In line with the guidelines defined by the NeurIPS organising committee, we can only accept original work that is not published in the main NeurIPS conference. However, we welcome published work from other non-machine learning focused venues, particularly work that has previously appeared in Neuroscience or Cognitive Science venues such as Cosyne, RLDM, CogSci and CCN.

Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NeurIPSWSBARL2019/

For any enquiries please reach out to us at BiologicalArtificalRL@gmail.com . 

On behalf of the organizers,

Raymond Chua, 

Feryal Behbahani, 

Sara Zannone, 

Rui Ponte Costa, 

Claudia Clopath,

Blake Richards, 

Doina Precup