I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24

Official Account of the @RL_Conference Workshop “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: Failure Modes in Sequential Decision Making in Practice”

[Taylor W. Killian @tw_killian]

There's no reason to gatekeep Reinforcement Learning...
RL is a powerful enough of a paradigm to admit a diversity of approaches. It is as much a problem statement as it is a solution approach. Problems arise when you elevate one over another.

[Edward Hughes @edwardfhughes]

Incredibly exciting work! https://t.co/aJEGtpF9eL. Cooperative, safe, driving can arise at scale from self-play training without human data, just as my group saw in Overcooked a few years ago. Caveat: in simulation. Bravo @EugeneVinitsky and coauthors!

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

Check here! https://t.co/X7MuFUd8Gb

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

Hello internet!

We’re still glowing in the joy that was being together at @RL_Conference earlier this month.

However, as promised, we’ve published the slides presented by each of our speakers on the workshop website

[Aneesh Muppidi @aneeshers]

Had an amazing time presenting Fast TRAC at @RLFrameWorkshop and @ICBINB_RLC this weekend. Felt very lucky to meet a lot of the RL researchers I look up to!

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

This talk was fantastic among all the other fantastic talks we had @ICBINB_RLC! It’s safe to say that @audurand is a superstar. 🤩

We’ve been getting a lot of requests to have the speakers share their slides, we’re should have them up on our website soon. Stay tuned!

[Claas Voelcker @c_voelcker]

@audurand was one of my favourite talks at RLC because of her incredible commitment to get our methods to actually work! This is a huge undervalued problem in the community and everybody who pushes from abstract theory to concrete practice deserves a shoutout!

[Taylor W. Killian @tw_killian]

As always it was a delight to reconnect with friends and colleagues as well as meet new people (esp. those I’d only interacted with virtually!) with deep gratitude for my fellow organizers @RLFrameWorkshop and @ICBINB_RLC, I believe that we helped set the tone for @RL_Conference.

[Aida Afshar @AiidaAfshar]

Thanks to everyone who came to our presentation and poster session at @ICBINB_RLC workshop! Had nice discussions about RL, Model Selection and hyperparameter tuning.

[Taylor W. Killian @tw_killian]

This talk facilitated a fantastic discussion that motivated going to the whiteboard (see the last picture) to drive some points home. 👏@wwdabney

You had me like this the whole time

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

@RL_Conference We’ve broken out the whiteboard now.

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

With our final talk of the day, we’ve got @wwdabney here to help us to learn how RL is (really really) hard.

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

Nuanced hot takes today, this is what @RL_Conference is intended for

[Abhishek Sharma @sharma_abhishek]

RL for wood production @ICBINB_RLC @ICBINB_RLC 🪵😱

Cool presentation with insights in sim-to-real RL by @audurand

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

We’re back from lunch and ready to learn about some wins and losses about using RL among various real world domains from @audurand

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

Now, addressing why Off-policy evaluation is not better, @sonali_ai4ai !

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

Here we go again with @shengpu_tang starting off our mini-session on healthcare.

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

The party doesn’t stop @ICBINB_RLC. We’re rolling forward with Steve James talking about safeRL

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

Kicking the party off with @yayitsamyzhang !!

[I Can’t Believe it’s Not Better: RLC ‘24 @ICBINB_RLC]

We’re very much looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible during today’s workshops. We’ll be in Room 803 in Campus Center @UMassAmherst, it’s a cozy room which should promote some great discussion!

[RL_Conference @RL_Conference]

@ICBINB_RLC: Room 803 (posters in room 905)
RLSW: Hadley Room (posters in the Marriott Center)
@tafm_rlc: Room 804 (posters in 805)
@DeployableRL: Room 904 (posters in 903)
@cocomarl2024: Room 174 (posters in room 163) (2/2)

[RL_Conference @RL_Conference]

@ICBINB_RLC: Room 803 (posters in room 905)
RLSW: Hadley Room (posters in the Marriott Center)
@tafm_rlc: Room 804 (posters in 805)
@DeployableRL: Room 904 (posters in 903)
@cocomarl2024: Room 174 (posters in room 163) (2/2)