News

At the VU Amsterdam, there are two open postdoc positions on decision making in the medical domain. In one of them, I will be involved as co-advisor. For all details and how to apply, please check the official vacancy.

Qi and Marco’s paper got accept for presentation at ICLR. Congratulations! The submitted version is available here, camera-ready version is coming soon.

This week, Qi Wang is presenting his paper on meta-learning mixture-of-expert neural processes and Mukul Gagrani and Corrado Rainone their paper on neural topological ordering for computation graphs at NeurIPS. Furthermore, Matthew Macfarlane will present preliminary work on learning tree-based policies in the Deep Reinforcement Learning workshop.

Qi’s ICML paper on model-based meta learning got accepted. Congratulation, Qi! A pre-print is available on here.

Two of our IJCAI submissions were accepted:
With Niklas Höpner & Ilaria Tiddi: Leveraging class abstraction for commonsense reinforcement learning via residual policy gradient methods (pre-print)
With Jan Wöhlke & Felix Schmitt: Value Refinement Network (VRN) (earlier version)
Congrats Jan & Niklas!

Niklas Höpner has recently posted his working paper on leveraging class abstraction for commonsense reinforcement learning. It is available on the arXiv.

Wouter Kool’s paper “Deep policy dynamic programming for vehicle routing problems” was accepted to CPAIOR. Congratulations! A preprint is available on the arXiv.

Elise van der Pol got two ICLR papers accepted, including one as spotlight. Submitted versions are available through OpenReview here and here. Congratulations!

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!

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.