Elise van der Pol got two ICLR papers accepted, including one as spotlight. Submitted versions are available through OpenReview here and here. Congratulations!
AAAI paper accepted
Alex Long’s AAAI submission on Fast and Data Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Pixels via Non-Parametric Value Approximation got accepted for presentation! The paper is the result of a collaboration started when Alex visited us at UvA. Congrats, Alex!
Several working papers posted
We’ve recently posted several working papers that I hope you’ll find interesting:
- Amin, S., Gomrokchi, M., Satija, H., van Hoof, H., & Precup, D. (2021). A Survey of Exploration Methods in Reinforcement Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00157.
- Kool, W., van Hoof, H., Gromicho, J., & Welling, M. (2021). Deep Policy Dynamic Programming for Vehicle Routing Problems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11756.
New publications
Jan Woehlke’s paper “Hierarchies of Planning and Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation” was accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Yijie Zhang got his paper “Deep Coherent Exploration For Continuous Control” accepted for presentation in the International Conference on Machine Learning.
Congrats Yijie & Jan! Links to the papers / preprint will follow soon on the publication page.
Amlab is looking for two assistant professors in Machine Learning
Our lab is recruiting two new assistant professors in machine learning (any subfield, e.g. probabilistic programming, ML for or using combinatorial optimization, RL, …). More info on our institutes vacancy page.
Open position for postdoctoral researcher
Update: Position has closed. Any jobs in our institute will be advertised here.
We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher for a collaboration on reinforcement learning with structured data. The position is offered as part of a collaboration with Elsevier and several other labs in Amsterdam. The collaboration will focus on fundamental research. More details can be found in the vacancy portal. Also please use the portal to submit your application if interested. Feel free to share the vacancy with anyone that might be interested.
Matthew & Niklas start at AMLAB
This month, two new PhD students joined AMLAB to work with me on two exciting projects:
Niklas will be working hybrid approaches to learn explainable sequential behavior within the Hybrid Intelligence project.
Matthew will be working on finding robust train shunting heuristics using deep reinforcement learning, in a public-private partnership together with NS Reizigers and NWO.
Tim’s and Elise’s NeurIPS papers accepted
Two of our submissions to NeurIPS were accepted. Elise’s work on MDP homomorphic networks focuses on exploiting symmetries in the state-action space, and is already available as preprint here. Tim’s work focuses on the use of policy search strategies to optimize MRI acquisition strategies. Congrats, Tim and Elise!
Jin’s RecSys paper accepted
Jin Huang got a paper accepted into RecSys 2020. Her paper focuses on learning a debiased simulator from a biased data to train recommender agents using reinforcement learning. Congrats Jin!
Qi’s ICML paper accepted
Qi Wang’s paper on neural processes with hierarchical latent variables was accepted to ICML. Congrats, Qi!