As a reminder, the AAMAS abstract deadline is October 1!

Congrats to my PhD student, Xueguang Lyu, for defending his thesis "On Solving Cooperation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" with Rob Platt, @shimon8282.bsky.social, and Lawson Wong!

Congrats to my PhD student, Andrea Baisero, on defending his thesis on "Privileged Training Frameworks for Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning" with Rob Platt, Lawson Wong, and Chongjie Zhang.

🚨 Excited to share RL2Grid! A standardized suite of RL tasks for realistic power grid operations ⚡ Built with TSOs, RL2Grid aims to bring RL closer to real-world critical infrastructure. 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101 💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G... Details below 👇

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

Hiring a postdoc to scale up and deploy RL-based planning onto some self-driving cars! We'll be building on arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349 and learn what the limits and challenges of RL planning are. Shoot me a message if interested and help spread the word please! Full posting to come in a bit.

Here is a link to the shortish (1.5 hour) tutorial I gave the other day called A Short Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. Check it out and let me know what you think! www.youtube.com/live/OQmJwBm...

The slides for the tutorial Frans Oliehoek and I gave at @aamasconf.bsky.social (A Concise Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning) are below. Check them out and let us know what you think! www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/camato/...

If you are working on multi-agent RL, this should be a fun workshop to submit to! And a good excuse to go to RLC :)

AAMAS 2025 is almost here!!! We’re thrilled to gather once again with the global community of researchers, practitioners, and innovators in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. 📍 Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA 📅 Dates: May 19–23 For more details visit the website: aamas2025.org

Join Us for AAMAS 2025 in Detroit! Registration Now Open! We are excited to announce that registration for AAMAS 2025 is now open! Don’t miss out — register today at aamas2025.org/index.php/co.... See you in Detroit! 🚀

Register NOW and save €100 off your registration fee! Fees will increase by €100 on April 1st. Looking forward to seeing you all in June! #RLDM2025

Congrats, Shlomo!

Congrats to Andy and Rich. A well-deserved recognition of their work and reinforcement learning in general! awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025! 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF... Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

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

Check out our journal article summarizing our recent work on doing multi-agent reinforcement learning with temporally-extended actions led by Yuchen Xiao Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

With various deadlines approaching, I'll share again my plea for clear problem formulations 🙏 lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...

Check out the accepted workshops at #AAMAS 2025! Many of the deadlines are soon (end of Jan / start of Feb). Please consider submitting your work to one of them. They were great last year. aamas2025.org/index.php/co... I will highlight individual workshops over the next few days.

The RLDM workshop list is now up! Have a look: rldm.org/call-for-wor... More workshop details coming soon :) There were so many wonderful submissions---this was really tough for the committee. Huge thanks to all involved, and looking forward to seeing folks in Dublin

Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025 Deadline this Week The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers whose current work is an important influence Deadline: 15th Jan 2025 Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR #SIGAIAward

Do you work on multi-agent systems or agent related reseach? Submit your papers to 7th Games, Agents, and Incentives (GAIW) workshop AT AAMAS-25. Accepting new work and accepted/submitted papers from AAAI, AAMAS, @neuripsconf.bsky.social, @icmlconf.bsky.social, @iclr-conf.bsky.social, etc.

Just a reminder that the AAMAS Doctoral Consortium deadline is next Friday! Please consider submitting to this great venue or telling your students about it. 👇

Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025 The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025 Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR #SIGAIAward

The 2025 Cooperative AI summer school (9-13 July 2025 near London) is now accepting applications, due March 7th! www.cooperativeai.com/summer-schoo...

Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025 The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers whose current work is an important influence Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025 Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR #SIGAIAward

Black in Robotics Student Travel Fellowships due 1/17/25 #BlackInRobotics #Fellowships #Awards @blackinengineering.bsky.social @blackinx.bsky.social blackinrobotics.org/bir-student-...

I have a draft of my introduction to cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning on arxiv. Check it out and let me know any feedback you have. The plan is to polish and extend the material into a more comprehensive text with Frans Oliehoek. arxiv.org/abs/2405.06161

ICML 2025 Call for Workshops is out. icml.cc/Conferences/...

If you are into ML theory (RL or not) with a proven track record, and you are interested in an industry research position, PM me. Feel free to spread the word.

📚📢Christmas came early 🎅 Our new textbook on multi-agent reinforcement learning with @mitpress.bsky.social is out NOW! The book is available from MIT Press (mitpress.mit.edu/978026204937...) or your bookstore nearby. Why you should be interested, what you get, and more all in a 🧵👇

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!

I won't be at #NeurIPS2024 but say hi to Alina and Ethan at our poster on Friday: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

@louiseadennis.bsky.social and I are program chairs for #AAMAS2026. I'm looking to try some new ideas for the reviewing process. Any ideas about some of your favorite (or least favorite) things other conferences have tried?

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!

🚨 PSA 🚨 Deadline to apply for your dream Phd in ML @FLAIR_Ox is coming up on the 2nd of December AOE. We work on compute-only scaling of LLMs, (meta/multi-agent) RL at the Hyperscale, Human-AI coordination, opponent-shaping for vaccine design, GenAI for finance & much more..