Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop

NeurIPS 2021


About

In recent years, the use of deep neural networks as function approximators has enabled researchers to extend reinforcement learning techniques to solve increasingly complex control tasks. The emerging field of deep reinforcement learning has led to remarkable empirical results in rich and varied domains like robotics, strategy games, and multi-agent interactions. This workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of deep learning and reinforcement learning, and it will help interested researchers outside of the field gain a high-level view about the current state of the art and potential directions for future contributions.

For previous editions, please visit NeurIPS 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.

Attending the Workshop

The workshop will be live-streamed at this link: https://neurips.cc/virtual/2021/workshop/21848. Chats to ask questions, GatherTown links for poster sessions, and all pre-recorded videos can be viewed on this site. NeurIPS workshop registration is required.

Important Dates and Deadlines


Invited Speakers

George Konidaris

Brown University

Karol Hausman

Google / Stanford


Dale Schuurmans

U Alberta / Google

Schedule (December 13th 2021, 8:55am-6:00pm PST)

Gather Town Links: Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4


  • 08:55 - 09:00 Welcome and Introduction

  • 09:00 - 10:00 Contributed talks

    • 09:00 - 09:15 Implicit Behavioral Cloning

    • 09:15 - 09:30 DR3: Value-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Requires Explicit Regularization

    • 09:30 - 09:45 HyAR: Addressing Discrete-Continuous Action Reinforcement Learning via Hybrid Action Representation

    • 09:45 - 10:00 Benchmarking the Spectrum of Agent Capabilities

  • 10:00 - 10:30 Invited Talk: Laura Schulz - In praise of folly: Goals, play, and human cognition

  • 10:30 - 11:00 BREAK

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Opinion Contributed Talk: Wilka Carvalho

  • 11:30 - 12:00 Contributed talks

    • 11:30 - 11:45 Adaptive Scheduling of Data Augmentation for Deep Reinforcement Learning

    • 11:45 - 12:00 Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Online Self-Supervision

  • 12:00 - 12:30 Invited Talk: George Konidaris - Signal to Symbol (via Skills)

  • 12:30 - 13:30 Poster session [Lunch]

  • 13:30 - 14:00 Opinion Contributed Talk: Sergey Levine

  • 14:00 - 14:30 Panel discussion 1 [authors of all contributed and opinion talks]

  • 14:30 - 15:00 Invited Talk: Dale Schuurmans - Understanding Deep Value Estimation

  • 15:00 - 15:30 BREAK

  • 15:30 - 16:00 Invited Talk: Karol Hausman - Reinforcement Learning as a Data Sponge

  • 16:00 - 16:30 NeurIPS RL Competitions Results Presentations

  • 16:30 - 17:00 Invited Talk: Kenji Doya - Natural and Artificial Reinforcement Learning

  • 17:00 - 18:00 Panel discussion 2 [speakers from all invited talks]

Organizers

Pieter Abbeel

UC Berkeley / Covariant

Srijita Das

University of Alberta

Yuqing Du

UC Berkeley

Chelsea Finn

Stanford / Google

Andrew Patterson

University of Alberta

David Silver

DeepMind

Matthew Taylor

University of Alberta

Manan Tomar

University of Alberta

Olivia Watkins

UC Berkeley

Martha White

University of Alberta

Advisory Board

Joelle Pineau

McGill / FAIR

Satinder Singh

University of Michigan / DeepMind

Contributed Talks

Boyan Li, Hongyao Tang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao, Pengyi Li, Zhen Wang, Zhaopeng Meng, Li Wang

Aviral Kumar, Rishabh Agarwal, Tengyu Ma, Aaron Courville, George Tucker, Sergey Levine

Pete Florence, Corey Lynch, Andy Zeng, Oscar A Ramirez, Ayzaan Wahid, Laura Downs, Adrian Wong, Johnny Lee, Igor Mordatch, Jonathan Tompson

Vitchyr H. Pong, Ashvin Nair, Laura Smith, Catherine Huang, Sergey Levine

Byungchan Ko, Jungseul Ok

Danijar Hafner


Accepted Posters

Toshinori Kitamura, Ryo Yonetani

Zhengyao Jiang, Tianjun Zhang, Robert Kirk, Tim Rocktäschel, Edward Grefenstette

Yuzhe Qin, Hao Su, Xiaolong Wang

Chang Chen, Jaesik Yoon, Yi-Fu Wu, Sungjin Ahn

Jun Yama, Karl Pertsch, Anisha Gunjal, Joseph J Lim

Rafael Rafailov, Varun Kumar Vijay, Tianhe Yu, Avi Singh, Mariano Phielipp, Chelsea Finn

Benjamin Eysenbach, Alexander Khazatsky, Sergey Levine, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Geraud Nangue Tasse, Steven James, Benjamin Rosman

Dingyang Chen, Yile Li, Qi Zhang

Edward W Staley, Chace Ashcraft, Benjamin Stoler, Jared Markowitz, Gautam Vallabha, Christopher Ratto, Kapil Katyal

Oleg Svidchenko, Aleksei Shpilman

Rui Yang, Meng Fang, Lei Han, Yali Du, Feng Luo, Xiu Li

Dongsu Lee, Minhae Kwon

Minqi Jiang, Michael D Dennis, Jack Parker-Holder, Andrei Lupu, Heinrich Kuttler, Edward Grefenstette, Tim Rocktäschel, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

Nitish Srivastava, Walter Talbott, Martin Bertran Lopez, Shuangfei Zhai, Joshua M. Susskind

Dominik Schmidt, Thomas Schmied

Jack Parker-Holder, Minqi Jiang, Michael D Dennis, Mikayel Samvelyan, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Edward Grefenstette, Tim Rocktäschel

Siddhant Agarwal, Aaron Courville, Rishabh Agarwal

Jinyi Liu, Zhi Wang, YAN ZHENG, Jianye HAO, Junjie Ye, Chenjia Bai, Pengyi Li

Utkarsh Aashu Mishra, Soumya Rani Samineni, Prakhar Goel, Chandravaran Venkatasai Kunjeti, Himanshu Lodha, Aman Singh, Aditya Verma Sagi, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Shishir N Y

Rishabh Jangir, Nicklas Hansen, Sambaran Ghosal, Mohit Jain, Xiaolong Wang

Pei Xu, Ioannis Karamouzas

Yecheng Jason Ma, Andrew Shen, Osbert Bastani, Dinesh Jayaraman

Kajetan Schweighofer, Markus Hofmarcher, Marius-Constantin Dinu, Philipp Renz, Angela Bitto-Nemling, Vihang Prakash Patil, Sepp Hochreiter

Denis Yarats, Rob Fergus, Alessandro Lazaric, Lerrel Pinto

Masahiro Kato, Kei Nakagawa, Kenshi Abe, Tetsuro Morimura

Michael Laskin, Hao Liu, Xue Bin Peng, Denis Yarats, Aravind Rajeswaran, Pieter Abbeel

Michael Laskin, Denis Yarats, Hao Liu, Kimin Lee, Albert Zhan, Kevin Lu, Catherine Cang, Lerrel Pinto, Pieter Abbeel

Nicolai Dorka, Joschka Boedecker, Wolfram Burgard

Zihan Zhou, Wei Fu, Bingliang Zhang, Yi Wu

Nitish Dashora, Daniel Shin, Dhruv Shah, Henry Leopold, David Fan, Ali Agha, Nicholas Rhinehart, Sergey Levine

Tim Seyde, Wilko Schwarting|Igor Gilitschenski, Markus Wulfmeier, Daniela Rus

Hiroki Furuta, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu

Khaled S. Refaat, Kai Ding

Alberto Maria Metelli, Samuele Meta, Marcello Restelli

Pinkesh Badjatiya, Mausoom Sarkar, Nikaash Puri, Jayakumar Subramanian, Abhishek Sinha, Siddharth Singh, Balaji Krishnamurthy

Geoffrey Van Driess, Vincent Francois-Lavet

Ken Ming Lee, Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian, Mark Crowley

Ethan Wang, Binghong Chen, Le Song

Videh Raj Nema, Balaraman Ravindran

Benjamin Eysenbach, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sergey Levine

Gokul Swamy, Sanjiban Choudhury, Drew Bagnell, Steven Wu

Chao Yu, Xinyi Yang, Jiaxuan Gao, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang, Yi Wu

Todor Davchev, Oleg Sushkov, Jean-Baptiste Regli, Stefan Schaal, Yusuf Aytar, Markus Wulfmeier, Jon Scholz

Xian Yeow Lee, Soumik Sarkar, Yubo Wang

Dhruv Shah, Peng Xu, Yao Lu, Ted Xiao, Alexander T Toshev, Sergey Levine, Brian Ichter

Anssi Kanervisto, Tomi Kinnunen, Ville Hautamaki

Iryna Korshunova, Minqi Jiang, Jack Parker-Holder, Tim Rocktäschel, Edward Grefenstette

Yanchao Sun, Ruijie Zheng, Yongyuan Liang, Furong Huang

Siyu Dai, Andreas Hofmann, Brian C. Williams

Zhihan Yang, Hai Huu Nguyen

George Pshihachev, Dmitry Ivanov, Vladimir Egorov, Aleksei Shpilman

Clare Lyle, Mark Rowland, Will Dabney

Yashvir Singh Grewal, Frits de Nijs, Sarah Goodwin

Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Michael Teng, Mark Schmidt, Frank Wood

Nasik Muhammad Nafi, Creighton Glasscock, William Hsu

Tanmay Gangwani, Yuan Zhou, Jian Peng

Chieko Sarah Imai, Minghao Zhang, Yuchen Zhang, Marcin Kierebiński, Ruihan Yang, Yuzhe Qin, Xiaolong Wang

Jesús Bujalance Martín, Raphaël Chekroun, Fabien Moutarde

Ling Pan, Longbo Huang, Tengyu Ma, Huazhe Xu

Fei Deng, Ingook Jang, Sungjin Ahn

Litian Liang, Yaosheng Xu, Stephen Marcus McAleer, Dailin Hu, Alexander Ihler, Pieter Abbeel, Roy Fox

Duo Xu

Ruihan Yang, Minghao Zhang, Nicklas Hansen, Huazhe Xu, Xiaolong Wang

Matthew Chang, Arjun Gupta, Saurabh Gupta

Yaosheng Xu, Dailin Hu, Litian Liang, Stephen Marcus McAleer, Pieter Abbeel, Roy Fox

Yijie Guo, Qiucheng Wu, Honglak Lee

Ozsel Kilinc, Giovanni Montana

Keiran Paster, Lev E McKinney, Sheila A. McIlraith, Jimmy Ba

Dailin Hu, Pieter Abbeel, Roy Fox

Tianhe Yu, Aviral Kumar, Yevgen Chebotar, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine, Karol Hausman

Michael Mathieu, Sherjil Ozair, Srivatsan Srinivasan, Caglar Gulcehre, Shangtong Zhang, Ray Jiang, Tom Le Paine, Konrad Zolna, Richard Powell, Julian Schrittwieser, David Choi, Petko Georgiev, Daniel Kenji Toyama, Aja Huang, Roman Ring, Igor Babuschkin, Timo Ewalds, Mahyar Bordbar, Sarah Henderson, Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo, Aaron van den Oord, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Nando de Freitas, Oriol Vinyals

Arnav Kumar Jain, Shiva Kanth Sujit, Shruti Joshi, Vincent Michalski, Danijar Hafner, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Aviral Kumar, Joey Hong, Anikait Singh, Sergey Levine

Harsha Kokel, Arjun Manoharan, Sriraam Natarajan, Balaraman Ravindran, Prasad Tadepalli

Sungryull Sohn, Hyunjae Woo, Jongwook Choi, lyubing qiang, Izzeddin Gur, Aleksandra Faust, Honglak Lee

Aaqib Parvez Mohammed, Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Trevor Ablett, Bryan Chan, Jonathan Kelly

Michał Zawalski, Błażej Osiński, Henryk Michalewski, Piotr Miłoś

Haotian Fu, Shangqun Yu, Michael Littman, George Konidaris

Kazuki Irie, Imanol Schlag, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Mengjiao Yang, Bo Dai, Ofir Nachum, George Tucker, Dale Schuurmans

Dushyant Rao, Fereshteh Sadeghi, Leonard Hasenclever, Markus Wulfmeier, Martina Zambelli, Giulia Vezzani, Dhruva Tirumala, Yusuf Aytar, Josh Merel, Nicolas Heess, Raia Hadsell

Ryan Sander, Wilko Schwarting, Tim Seyde, Igor Gilitschenski, Sertac Karaman, Daniela Rus

Arnaud Fickinger, Samuel Cohen, Stuart Russell, Brandon Amos

João Guilherme Madeira Araújo, Johan Samir Obando Ceron, Pablo Samuel Castro

Xinran Liang, Katherine Shu, Kimin Lee, Pieter Abbeel

Anthony Zhe Liu, Sungryull Sohn, Mahdi Qazwini, Honglak Lee

Alexander Pan, Kush Bhatia, Jacob Steinhardt

Jean-Baptiste Gaya, Laure Soulier, Ludovic Denoyer

Haoran Xu, Xianyuan Zhan, Honglei Yin, Huiling Qin

Wilka Torrico Carvalho, Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Kyriacos Nikiforou, Felix Hill, Murray Shanahan

Michael Wan, Jian Peng, Tanmay Gangwani

Piotr Januszewski, Mateusz Olko, Michał Królikowski, Jakub Swiatkowski, Marcin Andrychowicz, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Miłoś

Jongjin Park, Younggyo Seo, Jinwoo Shin, Honglak Lee, Pieter Abbeel, Kimin Lee

Vivek Veeriah, Zeyu Zheng, Richard Lewis, Satinder Singh

Alexandre Piché, Joseph Marino, Gian Maria Marconi, Valentin Thomas, Christopher Pal, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Risto Vuorio, Jacob Austin Beck, Gregory Farquhar, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Shimon Whiteson

Shagun Sodhani, Franziska Meier, Joelle Pineau, Amy Zhang

Albert Zhan, Ruihan Zhao, Lerrel Pinto, Pieter Abbeel, Michael Laskin

Yanchao Sun, Ruijie Zheng, Xiyao Wang, Andrew E Cohen, Furong Huang

Naoto Yoshida, Tatsuya Daikoku, Yukie Nagai, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Ilya Kostrikov, Ashvin Nair, Sergey Levine

Ishan Durugkar, Steven Stenberg Hansen, Stephen Spencer, Volodymyr Mnih

Soroush Nasiriany, Huihan Liu, Yuke Zhu

Michel Ma, Pierluca D'Oro, Yoshua Bengio, Pierre-Luc Bacon

Tianjun Zhang, Benjamin Eysenbach, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sergey Levine, Joseph E. Gonzalez

Izzeddin Gur, Ofir Nachum, Aleksandra Faust

Xiao-Yang Liu, Zechu Li, Zhuoran Yang, Jiahao Zheng, Zhaoran Wang, Anwar Walid, Jian Guo, Michael Jordan

David Venuto, Elaine Lau, Doina Precup, Ofir Nachum

Marco Bagatella, Sammy Joe Christen, Otmar Hilliges

Aditya Ramesh, Louis Kirsch, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Gene Li, Junbo Li, Nathan Srebro, Zhaoran Wang, Zhuoran Yang

Samuel Cohen, Brandon Amos, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Mikael Henaff, Eugene Vinitsky, Denis Yarats

Guy Tennenholtz, Assaf Hallak, Gal Dalal, Shie Mannor, Gal Chechik, Uri Shalit

Guy Tennenholtz, Nir Baram, Shie Mannor

Nicholas Ioannidis, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Mark Schmidt

Udari Madhushani, Biswadip Dey, Naomi Leonard, Amit Chakraborty

Xiaofei Wang, Kimin Lee, Kourosh Hakhamaneshi, Pieter Abbeel, Michael Laskin

Anand Gopalakrishnan, Kazuki Irie, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Sjoerd van Steenkiste

Michael Widrich, Markus Hofmarcher, Vihang Prakash Patil, Angela Bitto-Nemling, Sepp Hochreiter

Chris Junchi Li, Dongruo Zhou, Quanquan Gu, Michael Jordan

Lajanugen Logeswaran, Wilka Torrico Carvalho, Honglak Lee

Mira Finkelstein, Sarah Keren, Nitsan Levy Schlot, Lucy Liu, Yoav Kolumbus, Jeffrey Rosenschein, David C. Parkes

Adrian Brasoveanu, Rohan Pandey, Maximilian Emerson Alfano-Smith

Vittorio La Barbera, Fabio Pardo, Yuval Tassa, Monica Daley, Christopher Richards, Petar Kormushev, John Hutchinson

Glen Berseth, Zhiwei Zhang, Grace Zhang, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine

Robert Dadashi, Leonard Hussenot, Damien Vincent, Sertan Girgin, Anton Raichuk, Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin

Ryuji Imamura, Takuma Seno, Kenta Kawamoto, Michael Spranger

Matthia Sabatelli, Pierre Geurts

Taewook Nam, Shao-Hua Sun, Karl Pertsch, Sung Ju Hwang, Joseph J Lim

Louis Kirsch, Sebastian Flennerhag, Hado van Hasselt, Abram L. Friesen, Junhyuk Oh, Yutian Chen

Catherine Cang, Aravind Rajeswaran, Pieter Abbeel, Michael Laskin

Pavithra Harsha, Ashish Jagmohan, Jayant Kalagnanam, Brian Quanz, Divya Singhvi

Nino Vieillard, Marcin Andrychowicz, Anton Raichuk, Olivier Pietquin, Matthieu Geist

Jake Grigsby, Jin Yong Yoo, Yanjun Qi

Arthur Allshire, Mayank Mittal, Varun Lodaya, Viktor Makoviychuk, Denys Makoviichuk, Felix Widmaier, Manuel Wuthrich, Stefan Bauer, Ankur Handa, Animesh Garg

Kourosh Hakhamaneshi, Ruihan Zhao, Albert Zhan, Pieter Abbeel, Michael Laskin

Murtaza Dalal, Deepak Pathak, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Mingde Zhao, Zhen Liu, Sitao Luan, Shuyuan Zhang, Doina Precup, Yoshua Bengio

Behzad Haghgoo, Allan Zhou, Archit Sharma, Chelsea Finn

Program Committee

We would like to thank the following people for their effort in making this year's edition of the Deep RL Workshop a success!

  • David Abel

  • Pulkit Agarwal

  • Maruan Al Shedivat

  • Brandon Amos

  • Marcin Andrychowicz

  • Dilip Arumugam

  • Ethan Brooks

  • Devendra Singh Chaplot

  • Wilka Carvalho

  • Veronica Chelu

  • Richard Chen

  • Jongwook Choi

  • Coline Devin

  • Jesse Farebrother

  • Justin Fu

  • Yasuhiro Fujita

  • Shixiang Gu

  • Xiaoxiao Guo

  • Yijie Guo

  • David Ha

  • Tuomas Haarnoja

  • Matt Hausknecht

  • Karol Hausman

  • Sandy Huang

  • Max Jaderberg

  • Stephen James

  • Taylor Killian

  • Louis Kirsch

  • Ilya Kostrikov

  • Tejas Kulkarni

  • Andrew Kyle Lampinen

  • Alex Lee

  • Evan Liu

  • Hao Liu

  • Kendall Lowrey

  • Kevin Lu

  • Rowan McAllister

  • Vlad Mnih

  • Aditya Modi

  • Ofir Nachum

  • Suraj Nair

  • Junhyuk Oh

  • Xue Bin Peng

  • Vitchyr Pong

  • Oleh Rybkin

  • Tim Salimans

  • Rohin Shah

  • Archit Sharma

  • Max Smith

  • Sungryull Sohn

  • Aravind Srinivas

  • Bradley C. Stadie

  • Jie Tang

  • Yuandong Tian

  • Avinash Ummadisingu

  • Sasha Vezhnevets

  • Risto Vuorio

  • Jane Wang

  • Yi Wu

  • Ted Xiao

  • Huazhe Xu

  • Zhongwen Xu

  • Ge Yang

  • Tianhe Yu

  • Tom Zahavy

  • Luisa Zintgraf

  • Shangtong Zhang

  • Qi Zhang

  • Zeyu Zheng

  • Allan Zhou