Workshop: The Challenges of Real World Reinforcement Learning
Daniel Mankowitz, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Shie Mannor, Omer Gottesman, Anusha Nagabandi, Doina Precup, Timothy A Mann, Gabe Dulac-Arnold
Sat, Dec 12th @ 16:30 GMT – Sun, Dec 13th @ 03:30 GMT
Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has had numerous successes in recent years in solving complex problem domains. However, this progress has been largely limited to domains where a simulator is available or the real environment is quick and easy to access. This is one of a number of challenges that are bottlenecks to deploying RL agents on real-world systems. Two recent papers identify nine important challenges that, if solved, will take a big step towards enabling RL agents to be deployed to real-world systems (Dulac et. al. 2019, 2020).The goals of this workshop are four-fold: (1) Providing a forum for researchers in academia, industry researchers as well as industry practitioners from diverse backgrounds to discuss the challenges faced in real-world systems; (2) discuss and prioritize the nine research challenges. This includes determining which challenges we should focus on next, whether any new challenges should be added to the list or existing ones removed from this list; (3) Discuss problem formulations for the various challenges and critique these formulations or develop new ones. This is especially important for more abstract challenges such as explainability. We should also be asking ourselves whether the current Markov Decision Process (MDP) formulation is sufficient for solving these problems or whether modifications need to be made. (4) Discuss approaches to solving combinations of these challenges.
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Schedule
18:40 – 19:20 GMT
Mini-panel discussion 1 - Bridging the gap between theory and practice
Aviv Tamar, Emma Brunskill, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Daniel Mankowitz
19:20 – 19:50 GMT
Poster session 1
Links to individual poster presentations can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RJqKyddO9jhqYQmH5i-cmFz2bFN2ASs1agF_es6TIKc/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1#gid=0 Paper Authors will be present in the gather.town here: https://gather.town/app/uvje3g9tFQHEzyfJ/rwrl
21:10 – 21:50 GMT
Mini-panel discussion 2 - Real World RL: An industry perspective
Timothy A Mann, Franziska Meier
The following speakers that will be at this event do not have Neurips profiles: Franziska Meier - fmeier@fb.com Marc Reibert - marcraibert@bostondynamics.com Scott Kuindersma - skuindersma@bostondynamics.com
21:50 – 23:20 GMT
Lunch
Sat, Dec 12th @ 23:20 GMT – Sun, Dec 13th @ 00:00 GMT
Spotlight Talks
Spotlight talks will be 4 talks of selected papers. We will add the spotlight talks ourselves to the website, so your team do not need to worry about this slot.
01:20 – 02:00 GMT
Mini-panel discussion 3 - Prioritizing Real World RL Challenges
Chelsea Finn, Tom Dietterich, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold
02:00 – 02:30 GMT
Poster session 2
Links to individual poster presentations can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RJqKyddO9jhqYQmH5i-cmFz2bFN2ASs1agF_es6TIKc/edit?hl=en&forcehl=1#gid=0 Paper Authors will be present in the gather.town here: https://gather.town/app/uvje3g9tFQHEzyfJ/rwrl
03:50 – 04:30 GMT
Mini-panel discussion 4 - Ethical considerations for Real-World RL
Anca Dragan, Angela Schoellig, Anusha Nagabandi
Please also add: Omer Gottesman - omer_gottesman@brown.edu