08:50
09:00
Eric Heiden
Building High-Performance Differentiable Simulators in Warp
09:30
Felix Petersen
Differentiable Logic Gate Networks & Reinforcement Learning
10:00 Lightning talks
Poster session + coffee break 10:15 – 11:00
11:00
Yunzhu Li
Learning Structured World Models From and For Physical Interactions
11:30 Panel discussion I
What's the future of the interplay of simulation and learning?
Can we, will we, and should we close the sim2real gap?
What makes a good differentiable simulator?
How can we ensure the quality and longevity of open-source simulators?
+ questions from the audience
Lunch break 12:00 –13:45
13:45
Hae-Won Park
14:15
Yuval Tassa
14:45
Lin Shao
Large-Scale Manipulation Data Acquisition through Differentiable Simulation and Rendering
Poster session + coffee break 15:15 - 16:00
16:00
Emo Todorov
Leveraging the internals of MuJoCo physics to improve model-based control
16:30
Kelsey Allen
Simulation from states and sensors
17:00 Panel discussion II
What kind of gradients do we need, if any?
Is training in simulation the right approach for obtaining safe and performant policies?
How can we (and should we) reduce the ecological footprint of policy training?
+ questions from the audience
17:30 Closing remarks
17:40 End of workshop
18:00 Social event sponsored by Nvidia