Submitter papers must not exceed 4 pages, excluding references, and must follow GECCO style guidelines.
The content of the paper must be either new original work or discuss new perspectives on recently published work.
Papers must be submitted using the GECCO submission site. After login, the authors need to select the "Workshop Paper" submission form. In the form, the authors must select the workshop EvoRL.
All accepted papers will be presented at the corresponding workshop and appear in the GECCO Conference Companion Proceedings.
By submitting a paper, the author(s) agree that, if their paper is accepted, they will:
Submit a final, revised, camera-ready version to the publisher on or before the camera-ready deadline
Register at least one author before May 3, 2021 to attend the conference
Provide a pre-recorded version of the talk or poster and be present during its online transmission (which will occur during the days of the conference) to answer questions from the (online) audience.
For more informations check GECCO workshop page.
Submission opening: February 11, 2021
Submission deadline: April 12, 2021
Notification: April 26, 2021
Camera-ready: May 3, 2021
The workshop happened on July 10th 2021 and consisted of two 110 minutes slots organized as follow:
(All times are in the UTC/GMT+2 hours, Central European Summer Time)
Workshop Room 2: Whowa Link
Opening by organizers
Using Deep Q-Network for Selection Hyper-Heuristics (Dantas, do Rego, Pozo)
Using Reinforcement Learning for Tuning Genetic Algorithms (Quevedo, Abdelatti, Imani, Sodhi)
On the challenges of jointly optimizing robot morphology and control using a hierarchical optimisation scheme (Le Goff, Hart)
Sebastian Risi (Personal website)
Workshop Room 2: Whowa Link
Opening by organizers
Coordinate Ascent MORE With Adaptive Entropy Control for Population-Based Regret Minimization (Hüttenrauch, Neumann)
Novelty and MCTS (Baier, Kaisers)
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Sparse Rewards (Zhu, Belardinelli, González León)
Jeff Clune (Personal website)
Closing by Organizers