9:50 AM: Introductory Remarks (Minqi Jiang)
10:00 AM: Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents (Wojciech Czarnecki)
10:30 AM: Environments and Representations for Open-Ended Discovery (Sebastian Risi)
⭐️ SPOTLIGHTS ⭐️
11:00 AM: Walk the Random Walk: Learning to Discover and Reach Goals Without Supervision (Lina Mezghani, Piotr Bojanowski, Karteek Alahari, and Sainbayar Sukhbaatar)
11:15 AM: Towards Evaluating Adaptivity of Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (Yi Wan, Ali Rahimi-Kalahroudim, Janarthanan Rajendran, Ida Momennejad, Sarath Chandar, and Harm van Seijen)
11:30 AM: Don't Freeze Your Embedding: Lessons from Policy Finetuning in Environment Transfer (Victoria Dean, Daniel Toyama, and Doina Precup)
11:45 AM: Virtual Poster Session #1 (Gather)
12:45 PM: Lunch Break and Discussions (Gather)
1:30 PM: Using Quality-Diversity to Co-Learn Generators that Illuminate the Space of Agent Abilities (Sam Earle)
2:00 PM: General Infomax Agents through World Models (Danijar Hafner)
2:30 PM: Virtual Coffee Break (Gather)
3:00 PM: Live Panel Discussion #1 (Sam Earle, Sebastian Risi, Tim Rocktäschel, and Wojciech Czarnecki)
4:00 PM: Virtual Coffee Break (Gather)
⭐️ SPOTLIGHTS ⭐️
4:15 PM: Accelerated Quality-Diversity for Robotics through Massive Parallelism (Bryan Lim, Maxime Allard, Luca Grillotti, and Antoine Cully)
4:30 PM: DSA-ME: Deep Surrogate Assisted MAP-Elites (Yulun Zhang, Matthew Fontaine, Amy Hoover, Stefanos Nikolaidis)
4:45 PM: Differentiable Quality Diversity for Reinforcement Learning by Approximating Gradients (Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew Fontaine, Julian Togelius, and Stefanos Nikolaidis)
5:00 PM: Beyond Agents and Environments? (Julian Togelius)
5:30 PM: Emergent Complexity and Zero-Shot Transfer with PAIRED (Natasha Jaques)
6:00 PM: Virtual Coffee Break (Gather)
6:15 PM: Open Questions in Creating Safe Open-Ended AI: Tensions Between Control and Creativity (Joel Lehman)
6:45 PM: Why Open-Endedness Matters to Machine Learning (Kenneth Stanley)
7:15 PM: Live Panel Discussion #2 (Danijar Hafner, Joel Lehman, Julian Togelius, Kenneth Stanley, and Natasha Jaques)
8:15 PM: Closing Remarks
8:20 PM: Virtual Poster Session #2 (Gather)