Hi RL Enthusiasts! RLC is coming to Montreal, Quebec, in the summer: Aug 16–19, 2026! Call for Papers is up now: Abstract: Mar 1 (AOE) Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) Excited to see what you’ve been up to - Submit your best work! rl-conference.cc/callforpaper... Please share widely!

Where do some of Reinforcement Learning's great thinkers stand today? Find out! Keynotes of the RL Conference are online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Wanting vs liking, Agent factories, Theoretical limit of LLMs, Pluralist value, RL teachers, Knowledge flywheels (guess who talked about which!)

Ending with our last RLC oral, Richard Sutton with "The Oak Architecture: A Vision of SuperIntelligence from Experience"

Kicking off RLC day 3 with Peter Dayan: "The Marriage of Natural and Engineered Reinforcement Learning"

Excited to announce the RLC best paper awards! Like last year, we wanted to highlight the many excellent ways you can do research. rl-conference.cc/RLC2025Award...

If you reviewed for RLC, a reminder that we have an event to celebrate you this evening!

As RLC kicks off we would like to thank our sponsors who made this possible! Please visit them at their booths! Diamond: DE Shaw and Co., Amii, Gov. of Alberta Gold: Sony AI Silver: Apple, Artificial Agency Bronze: Google DeepMind, Univ. of Alberta, General Catalyst

Martha White: Continual Reinforcement Learning for Process Control RL4RS Workshop at @rl-conference.bsky.social

Pierre-Luc Bacon: Beyond the Gym Interface RL4RS Workshop @rl-conference.bsky.social

One more day! One more day!

RLC starts tomorrow here in Edmonton. I couldn't be more excited! It has a fantastic roll of speakers, great papers, and workshops. And this time, it is in Edmonton 😁 @rl-conference.bsky.social is my favourite conference, and no, it is not because I am one of its organizers this year.

📍 The RL4RS Workshop is happening tomorrow at University of Alberta, as part of @rl-conference.bsky.social. Join us for a focused day on real-world applications of Reinforcement Learning. 🗓️ Full Schedule: rl4rs.github.io/RL4RS/schedu... We hope to see you there.

Dessert at @rl-conference.bsky.social .

We’re excited to announce our final keynote speaker: @michaelhbowling.bsky.social (University of Alberta). 🎲🃏 In this talk, he will explore what drew him to explore using 40-year-old video games to test RL agents! Join us at @rl-conference.bsky.social to find out more about the Atari Benchmark!

Propose some socials for RLC! Research topics, affinity groups, niche interests, whatever comes to mind! rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...

To align better with workshop acceptance dates, 𝐑𝐋𝐂 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟑𝐫𝐝!

🥥🥥 Hoping to submit to CoCoMARL @rl-conference.bsky.social but need more time ⌛😱? Well you're in luck - we're extending our deadline *1 week* to June 6th! See our call for papers and the link to submit below! 🥥🥥 sites.google.com/view/cocomar...

⌛ The May 30th deadline for CoCoMARL 2025 at RLC (@rl-conference.bsky.social) is approaching soon, but there's still time! Submit papers on our openreview or self-nominate to be a part of our program committee now at the following link 🥥🥥 sites.google.com/view/cocomar...

Reminder that early registration for RLC closes on the 30th! Please register early to save yourself some money and help us get the word out.

RLC accepted papers are out! Check them out or come see them in August: openreview.net/group?id=rl-...

Love RLC and want to host RLC 2027 in your city? We're soliciting hosting! Please help us get the word out! forms.gle/XAoU6ZkcVHUt...

The RLC accepted workshops list is out rl-conference.cc/accepted_wor...! Programmatic RL Causal RL RL and videogames Inductive biases and RL and returning from last year: RL beyond rewards, finding the frame, and RL in practice!

🥥🥥 Announcing the Second (!!) Coordination and Cooperation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (CoCoMARL) Workshop at RLC 2025 @rl-conference.bsky.social 🥥🥥 Please see our website for more information and the call for papers! sites.google.com/view/cocomar...

Applying RL to a real system? Having insightful experience, new methods, reviews, analysis to share? We are excited to announce the @rl-conference.bsky.social 2025 workshop on Practical Insights into RL for Real Systems! rl4rs.github.io/RL4RS

RLC registration is up! Last year we sold out so register early. In particular, register early if you need Canadian visas. rl-conference.cc/register.html

Following the success of last year's initiative, RL Conference 2025 (@rl-conference.bsky.social) is again having a Journal to Conference track! Accepted TMLR within scope are invited to submit for consideration by May 1! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congrats to this year's Turing award winners! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t... Incidentally, if you'd like to hear from them, we know a place they've given / are giving keynotes

The call for workshops at RLC25 is still open for a few days (deadline in March 7 AOE). We welcome proposals for 1-day workshops collocated with the coolest RL conference in August. Josiah Hanna and myself are looking forward to your submissions!

Reminder: The appendix comes before the references, is peer-reviewed, and counts towards the page limit. It can help your paper flow better while still being part of the paper. Anything you don’t want to count towards the page limit should go in the supplementary material!

Some extra motivation for those of you in RLC deadline mode: our line-up of keynote speakers -- as all accepted papers get a talk, they may attend yours! @rl-conference.bsky.social

RLC abstract submission deadline is AOE today! And remember, it's just the abstracts, not the cover pages or anything else.

Reminder, 5 days to the abstract deadline (AOE)!

🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!

Our next speaker is Leslie Pack Kaelbling! Her work has influenced so much of RL for embodied intelligence from solving partially observed MDPs to learning abstractions to task and motion planning. We're so excited to hear from her.

11 days to the RLC abstract deadline! So excited to see them all.

I get so sad when I see students contort their research in weird ways in anticipation of adversarial reviewers. Been there? Be part of the change you want to see in the world. Better yet, we've designed the process so that you may even learn a thing or two about doing good research (and reviewing).

Welcome to the other side of ICML dear bleary-eyed RL researchers. Time to get ready for the RLC deadline, Feb. 14 AOE! So excited for your papers. See the call for more info: rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...

You may have heard that the first round of invitations for reviewing at RLC has been sent out. That was a semi-automatic process. We certainly missed many fantastic reviewers, and we also issued invitations for the "wrong" role. Please help us improve all these aspects!

RLC 2025 is looking for reviewers and reviewer nominations, for folks looking to innovate on the RL reviewing process. If you know someone qualified, please nominate them (but read the docs below): forms.gle/3yCeBjn4Yhi7... And please help us spread the word!

RLC call for workshops is out rl-conference.cc/callforworks...! Submissions open on Feb 3rd, deadline on March 7, with the workshops on Aug. 5th. Last year's workshops were inimitable and we @claireve.bsky.social and Josiah Hanna) look forward to your amazing proposals

Check out some of the exciting changes to the RLC reviewing process! We're always trying new things to perfect it

Excited to announce the first RLC 2025 keynote speaker, a researcher who needs little introduction, whose textbook we've all read, and who keeps pushing the frontier on RL with human-level sample efficiency

Some good information about different types of agents situated with the #LLM context. If you want to know more you should attend the @rl-conference.bsky.social to get all the details on the state of #reinforcementlearning and #learningagents.

You know how RL is back now? Well, so are our upcoming deadlines

RLC 2024 was a fun event, and it is likely to become the top venue for the RL Community. Consider submitting your RL papers to this conference. (Edmonton, Alberta 🇨🇦 is also a beautiful and relaxing city in the summer.) #ReinforcementLearning

Now with a luma link: lu.ma/1bxqun5l

If you're at NeurIPS, RLC is hosting an RL event from 8 till late at The Pearl on Dec. 11th. Join us, meet all the RL researchers, and spread the word!

We're trying something new with cover pages this year to help authors be very clear about their contributions and help reviewers assess if the paper matches the claims. Take a look!

RLC was amazing! We should make it the next CoRL, a conference that jumped from new to recognized tastemaker in the field within a few iterations! So everybody, put on your Sunday best for RLC and write some great papers!

This year's (first-ever) RL conference was a breath of fresh air! And now that it's established, the next edition is likely to be even better: Consider sending your best and most original RL work there, and then join us in Edmonton next summer!