ALOE 2023
Workshop Schedule

Friday, December 15th @ NeurIPS 2023 (Full Schedule)
8:45 AM - 5:30 PM CST (GMT-6:00) in Room 211 – 213

8:45 AM: Introductory Remarks (Minqi Jiang, Mikayel Samvelyan)

9:00 AM: Is Simulation Dead? (Tim Rocktäschel)

9:30 AM: Subjective Open-Endedness (Lisa Soros)

10:00 AM: Adaptive Machines: Unleashing the Power of Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Versatile and Resilient Robotics (Antoine Cully)

10:30 AM: Amorphous Fortress: Exploring Emergent Behavior in Open-Ended Simulations (M Charity)

⭐️ SPOTLIGHTS ⭐️ 

11:00 AM: WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents  (Shuyan Zhou et al)

11:15 AM: OMNI: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness (Jenny Zhang et al) 

11:30 AM: Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models (Guanzhi Wang et al)


11:45 AM: 🥪 Lunch Break

12:45 AM: 📜 Poster Session


1:45 PM: Abstraction and Analogy are the Keys to Robust, Open-Ended AI (Melanie Mitchell)

2:15 PM: Open-Ended and AI-Generating Algorithms in the Era of Foundation Models (Jeff Clune)

2:45 PM: Algorithmic Scenario Generation as Quality Diversity Optimization (Stefanos Nikolaidis)

3:15 PM: Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space (Feryal Behbahani)


⭐️ SPOTLIGHTS ⭐️ 

3:45 PM: Motif: Intrinsic Motivation from Artificial Intelligence Feedback (Martin Klissarov, Pierluca D'Oro)

4:00 PM: Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models (Jason Ma)

4:15 PM: Quality Diversity through Human Feedback (Li Ding)


4:30 PM: Panel Discussion with Jeff Clune, Jim Fan, M Charity, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Roberta Raileanu, chaired by Tim Rocktäschel


5:30 PM: Closing Remarks (Minqi Jiang, Mikayel Samvelyan)

🕰 Note that all times are in CST (GMT-6:00).