Introduction
While AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning communities focus on similar sequential decision-making problems, these communities remain somewhat unaware of each other on specific problems, techniques, methodologies, and evaluation. This workshop aims to encourage discussion and collaboration between the researchers in the fields of AI planning and reinforcement learning. We aim to bridge the gap between the two communities, facilitate the discussion of differences and similarities in existing techniques, and encourage collaboration across the fields. We solicit interest from AI researchers that work in the intersection of planning and reinforcement learning, in particular, those that focus on intelligent decision making. As such, the joint workshop program is an excellent opportunity to gather a large and diverse group of interested researchers.
Topics
The workshop solicits work at the intersection of the fields of reinforcement learning and planning. We also solicit work solely in one area that can influence advances in the other so long as the connections are clearly articulated in the submission.
Submissions are invited for topics on, but not limited to:
- Reinforcement learning (model-based, Bayesian, deep, etc.)
- Model representation and learning for planning
- Planning using approximated/uncertain (learned) models
- Monte Carlo planning
- Learning search heuristics for planner guidance
- Theoretical aspects of planning and reinforcement learning
- Reinforcement Learning and planning competition(s)
- Multi-agent planning and learning
- Applications of both reinforcement learning and planning
Important Dates
Submission deadline: Feb 24, 2021
Notification date: March 19, 2021
Camera-ready deadline: April 16, 2021
Workshop date: June 8 or 9, 2021 (TBD)
Submission Instructions
We solicit workshop paper submissions relevant to the above call of the following types:
Long papers — up to 8 pages + unlimited references/appendices
Short papers — up to 4 pages + unlimited references/appendices
Extended abstracts — up to 2 pages + unlimited references/appendices
Please format submissions in AAAI style (see instructions in the Author Kit 2021 at AAAI, http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit21.zip).
Some accepted long papers will be accepted as contributed talks. All accepted long and short papers and extended abstracts will be given a slot in the poster presentation session. Extended abstracts are intended as brief summaries of already published papers (a reference to the publication is expected), preliminary work, position papers or challenges that might help bridge the gap.
Paper submissions should be made through EasyChair, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prl2021.
Please send your inquiries by email to the organizers at prl.theworkshop@gmail.com.
For up-to-date information, please visit the PRL website, https://prl-theworkshop.github.io.
Previous Edition
https://icaps20subpages.icaps-conference.org/workshops/prl/
Organizers
Hector Palacios
Vicenç Gómez
Anders Jonsson
Alan Fern
Andrey Kolobov
Scott Sanner
