Connectionists: Call for papers: AAAI Spring Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (COMARL) 2021

[Shayegan Omidshafiei]

AAAI Spring Symposium on Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent
Reinforcement
Learning (COMARL) 2021

March 22-24, 2021, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA.


https://sites.google.com/corp/view/comarl-aaai-2021/call-for-papers


Key Dates:

Submission: November 1st, 2020, 23:59 GMT

Notification: December 3rd, 2020

Symposium: March 22–24, 2021


Call for position papers to define a topic of study at the symposium:


We live in a multi-agent world and to be successful in that world
intelligent agents will need to learn to take into account the agency of
others. They will need to compete in market places, cooperate in teams,
communicate with others, coordinate their plans, and negotiate outcomes.
Examples include self-driving cars interacting in traffic, personal

assistants acting on behalf of humans and negotiating with other agents,
swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles, financial trading systems, robotic
teams, and household robots.

There has been a lot of great work on multi-agent reinforcement learning
(MARL) in the past decade, but significant challenges remain, including:

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   the difficulty of learning an optimal model/policy from a partial signal,
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   learning to cooperate/compete in non-stationary environments with
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   distributed, simultaneously learning agents,
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   the interplay between abstraction and influence of other agents,
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   the exploration vs. exploitation dilemma,
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   the scalability and effectiveness of learning algorithms,
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   avoiding social dilemmas, and
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   learning emergent communication.


The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers in
multiagent reinforcement learning, but also more widely machine learning
and multiagent systems, to explore some of these and other challenges in
more detail. The main goal is to broaden the scope of MARL research and to
address the fundamental issues that hinder the applicability of MARL for
solving complex real world problems.

We aim to organize an active workshop, with many interactive
(brainstorm/breakout) sessions. We are hopeful that this will form the
basis for ongoing collaborations on these challenges between the attendants
and we aim for several position papers as concrete outcomes.

Authors can submit papers of 1-4 pages that will be reviewed by the
organizing committee. We are looking for position papers that present a
challenge or opportunity for MARL research, which should be on a topic the
authors not only wish to interact on but also ‘work’ on with other
participants during the symposium. We also welcome (preliminary) research
papers that describe new perspectives to dealing with MARL challenges, but
we are not looking for summaries of current research---papers should
clearly state some limitation(s) of current methods and potential ways
these could be overcome. Submissions will be handled through easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss21

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Special note for authors of papers accepted to last year’s COMARL 2020
symposium

As communicated earlier, we are pleased to announce that all of the papers
previously accepted to COMARL 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19) will, of
course, naturally be presented at COMARL 2021.

Moreover, given the time lapsed since the 2020 session, we would like to
offer authors who had their papers accepted for the March 2020 session the
following options for the 2021 session:

   1.

   Presenting their 2020 paper as-is in the new session.
   2.

   Submitting a minor revision of their paper (i.e., minor
   updates/improvements, and no major change in topic). The organizing
   committee will subsequently verify the changes are minor (i.e., a minimal
   review).
   3.

   Conduct a major revision of their 2020 paper. This will involve a full
   review by the PC.
   4.

   Submitting a new paper altogether (and choosing to also present their
   2020 paper as-is). This will involve a full review by the PC.

The deadline for submissions of minor, major, and new papers (Options 2-4
above) is November 1st, 2020, 23:59 GMT, with submissions made on
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss21. Please let us know your
preferences as soon as possible.

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Best regards,

Organizing Committee:

Christopher Amato, Northeastern University

Frans Oliehoek, Delft University of Technology

Shayegan Omidshafiei, Google DeepMind

Karl Tuyls, Google DeepMind
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