Next week I will be at AAMAS looking in awe @kale-ab.bsky.social presenting as an oral our paper on probing actual reasoning capabilities in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. More than happy to chat about this project or research in general!

We are proud to have an amazing line-up of speakers! They will present their works, which incorporate the constraint that the world is bigger than the agent and impossible to anticipate, observe, or model perfectly. We are also looking forward to the panel discussion!

Really excited to present our recent work at #ICLR2026 this week! 🚨 We discover highly coordinated joint behaviours and integrate them into the skill sets of MARL agents, accelerating the search for effective joint strategies in downstream tasks. 🧵👇 Paper link: raulsteleac.github.io/iaro

(1/N) Later this week @iclr-conf.bsky.social my *majestic* coauthors will present our recent research on learning latent representations of behaviors!

RL in Big Worlds is a workshop at @rl-conference.bsky.social about ideas that enable agents to achieve goals in environments vastly more complex than themselves. This requires giving agents the ability to learn continually and use approximate value functions, models, and policies effectively.

Still hiring for PhD candidates who are *specifically* excited in building and deploying RL systems for self-driving vehicles and other multi-agent planning settings. Shoot me an email if you think this is you and please help spread the word!

We have the keynote speakers for RLC2026 now! Thrilled to welcome Rika Antonova, Sheila McIlraith, Marc G. Bellemare, Danijar Hafner, Balaraman Ravindran! Details: rl-conference.cc/index.html The RL community is coming together this August in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Hope you make it!

🚨🚨🚨 Later today I am going to present at @rl-agents-rg.bsky.social’s reading group one research line with @mircomutti.bsky.social that I’m really excited about: behavior compression via unsupervised RL!

One week left to apply to the Reinforcement Learning Summer School (Milan, 3-12 June 2026). Don't miss this opportunity to dive deep into RL foundations and learn about the most recent applications! rlsummerschool.com/application/

📣 Reinforcement Learning Summer School is returning to Milan in 2026! Co-organized with @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social & designed for Master's and PhD students on RL theory, multi-agent systems, RL & LLMs, real-world applications... 📍 Milan 🇮🇹 📅 3-12 June ⏰ Apply by 27 March 🔗 https://bit.ly/4b2Plhp

Reading group TOMORROW 3-4pm UK! Joe Marino (Google DeepMind) will present SIMA 2, a generalist embodied agent designed to operate across a wide range of 3D virtual worlds 🌎 Join here: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group

I'll be giving a talk at Cohere Labs about my research on decision making agents and world models at Microsoft Research! 📅 January 20th (Tomorrow!) 5pm GMT/ 6pm CET/ 9am PST 📍 Online (link below) Everyone is welcome! Link via calendar invite and more details: cohere.com/events/coher...

This piece’s suggestions gave me the same positive feeling of @rl-conference.bsky.social’s cover page. Wondering if the next edition can incorporate some of these ideas

Absolutely essential piece by @kevinbaker.bsky.social critiquing AI automation of science by pulling back the curtain on what modern science actually is. LLMs already replicate and accelerate its irrational bureaucratic structure.

🎤 Announcing the 3rd workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Mannheim 🎤 We have an amazing lineup of speakers: @Mathieugeist, @gio_ramponi, Theresa Eimer, @SarahKeren_, @araffin2, @c_rothkopf, and @AdrienBolland ⏰ Friday 6th February 📍University of Mannheim

(1/N) (Unsupervised) pre-training turned out not to be such a bad idea. In our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper, we investigate what the right objective is when pre-training in MARL without rewards.

📢 RL reading group TODAY @ 15:00 BST (in 2 hours!) 📢 Speakers: Olya Mastikhina and Dhruv Sreenivas (University of Montreal & Mila - Quebec AI Institute) Title: Optimistic critics can empower small actors🦸 Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group

📢 RL reading group Thursday @ 16:00 BST 📢 Speaker: Alex Lewandowski Title: The World Is Bigger: A Computationally-Embedded Perspective on the Big World Hypothesis 🌍 Details: edinburgh-rl.github.io/reading-group

I really believe this work to be the tip of the iceberg! If you are at @rl-conference.bsky.social, please don’t mind disturbing Kale-ab as much as possible!

Loved to see these (5!!!) papers around, I really do hope it won’t turn out to be a cult.

At #ICML2025, we will present a theoretical justification for the benefits of « asymmetric actor-critic » algorithms (#W1008 Wednesday at 11am). 📝 Paper: hdl.handle.net/2268/326874 💻 Blog: damien-ernst.be/2025/06/10/a...

I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧵

The RL & Agents Reading Group is back with a new style 💇‍♂️! Really recommend joining the mailing list to get to know the great upcoming talks like Mattie’s

🌟🌟Good news for the explorers🗺️! Next week we will present our paper “Enhancing Diversity in Parallel Agents: A Maximum Exploration Story” with V. De Paola, @mircomutti.bsky.social and M. Restelli at @icmlconf.bsky.social! (1/N)

For many, the Indaba was their first exposure to ML/AI, and this helps give more people that opportunity. Please donate if you can: gofund.me/61b012e4

🚨🚨🚨 At the RL group (rl.airlab.deib.polimi.it) in Milan, Alberto M. Metelli is hiring! Postdocs and PhD students to work on the theory and practice of human feedback in RL. When: starting this Fall. Deadline: May 31st. A great person to work with, my word. Spread the word!

Working on something cool in RL? Submit it to EWRL! We’ll be opening submissions soon — and this year we’re introducing a fast track for papers already accepted at other conferences! 🚀 Check out the full Call for Papers on the website: euro-workshop-on-reinforcement-learning.github.io/ewrl18/

⏰⏰Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar ⏰⏰ In two weeks, April 8, Mirco Mutti will talk about "A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits"

The call for workshops is out. Now may be a bit busy but the deadline is on March 7th so there’s time :) Send us your great ideas for 1-day workshops at RLC!

my 4th phd student @nnekaokolo4.bsky.social just graduated today. i have no words for how proud i am of her and the work we've done together

We recently asked the authors to do a talk on this - m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmdn... . A lot of awesome gems (goal focused rl research, don't waste your time, etc) 🔥 Thanks for bringing this to my attention @brandonrohrer.com !

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social! What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇