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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 15d

As a reminder, the AAMAS abstract deadline is October 1!

AAMAS.2026 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 27d

The abstracts submission deadline for the main technical tracks is fast approaching! Don't miss your chance to present your research in Cyprus and connect with top experts in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems🔔

📅 Submission deadline: October 1, 2025
#AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congrats to my PhD student, Xueguang Lyu, for defending his thesis "On Solving Cooperation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" with Rob Platt, @shimon8282.bsky.social, and Lawson Wong!

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · Jul 10

Congrats to my PhD student, Andrea Baisero, on defending his thesis on "Privileged Training Frameworks for Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning" with Rob Platt, Lawson Wong, and Chongjie Zhang.

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Enrico Marchesini @emarche.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 Excited to share RL2Grid! A standardized suite of RL tasks for realistic power grid operations ⚡ Built with TSOs, RL2Grid aims to bring RL closer to real-world critical infrastructure.

📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...

Details below 👇

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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · Jun 25

Propose some socials for RLC! Research topics, affinity groups, niche interests, whatever comes to mind!

rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...

RLC Call for Workshops

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hiring a postdoc to scale up and deploy RL-based planning onto some self-driving cars! We'll be building on arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349 and learn what the limits and challenges of RL planning are. Shoot me a message if interested and help spread the word please!

Full posting to come in a bit.

Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play

Self-play has powered breakthroughs in two-player and multi-player games. Here we show that self-play is a surprisingly effective strategy in another domain. We show that robust and naturalistic drivi...

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · Jun 18

Here is a link to the shortish (1.5 hour) tutorial I gave the other day called A Short Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. Check it out and let me know what you think!

www.youtube.com/live/OQmJwBm...

Christopher Amato | A Short Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent RL | June 6, 2025

YouTube video by Deep RL Course

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · May 30

The slides for the tutorial Frans Oliehoek and I gave at
@aamasconf.bsky.social (A Concise Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning) are below. Check them out and let us know what you think!

www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/camato/...

Christopher Amato -- Tutorials

www.khoury.northeastern.edu

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · May 21

Definitely Ay-MAS. I’m with you.

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · May 21

If you are working on multi-agent RL, this should be a fun workshop to submit to! And a good excuse to go to RLC :)

CoCoMARL-2025 @cocomarl-workshop.bsky.social · May 21

⌛ The May 30th deadline for CoCoMARL 2025 at RLC (@rl-conference.bsky.social) is approaching soon, but there's still time!

Submit papers on our openreview or self-nominate to be a part of our program committee now at the following link 🥥🥥

sites.google.com/view/cocomar...

CoCoMARL 2025

Call for Papers

sites.google.com

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AAMAS.2026 @aamasconf.bsky.social · May 8

AAMAS 2025 is almost here!!! We’re thrilled to gather once again with the global community of researchers, practitioners, and innovators in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
📍 Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
📅 Dates: May 19–23

For more details visit the website: aamas2025.org

AAMAS 2025 Detroit

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AAMAS.2026 @aamasconf.bsky.social · Feb 28

Join Us for AAMAS 2025 in Detroit! Registration Now Open!

We are excited to announce that registration for AAMAS 2025 is now open! Don’t miss out — register today at aamas2025.org/index.php/co....

See you in Detroit! 🚀

Registration – AAMAS 2025 Detroit

aamas2025.org

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RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social · Mar 14

Register NOW and save €100 off your registration fee!

Fees will increase by €100 on April 1st.

Looking forward to seeing you all in June! #RLDM2025

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · Mar 11

Congrats, Shlomo!

ACM Special Interest Group on AI @acmsigai.bsky.social · Mar 11

This year's ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award goes to Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein. His work on decentralized Markov Decision Processes laid the foundation for decision-theoretic planning in multi-agent systems and multi-agent reinforcement learning.

sigai.acm.org/main/2025/03...
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Shlomo Zilberstein (2025 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI

The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Shlomo Zilberstein is the recipient of the 2025 award. Shlomo Zilberstein is Professor…

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · Mar 5

Congrats to Andy and Rich. A well-deserved recognition of their work and reinforcement learning in general!

awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...

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RLDM @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social · Feb 11

Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025!

🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF...

Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · Feb 9

No, the abstract is just for the organizers to start organizing (e.g., lining up reviewers for the papers).

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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · Feb 8

🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!

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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · Feb 8

Check out our journal article summarizing our recent work on doing multi-agent reinforcement learning with temporally-extended actions led by Yuchen Xiao

Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability - Yuchen Xiao, Weihao Tan, Joshua Hoffman, Tian Xia, Christopher Amato, 2025

The state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods provide promising solutions to a variety of complex problems. Yet, these methods all assu...

journals.sagepub.com

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Tom Silver @tomssilver.bsky.social · Jan 20

With various deadlines approaching, I'll share again my plea for clear problem formulations 🙏

lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...

What’s Your Problem? An Oft-Missing Section in AI Papers – Learning and Intelligent Systems Group

lis.csail.mit.edu

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · Jan 14

Check out the accepted workshops at #AAMAS 2025!

Many of the deadlines are soon (end of Jan / start of Feb).

Please consider submitting your work to one of them. They were great last year.

aamas2025.org/index.php/co...

I will highlight individual workshops over the next few days.

Accepted Workshops – AAMAS 2025 Detroit

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David Abel @dabelcs.bsky.social · Jan 12

The RLDM workshop list is now up! Have a look: rldm.org/call-for-wor...

More workshop details coming soon :)

There were so many wonderful submissions---this was really tough for the committee. Huge thanks to all involved, and looking forward to seeing folks in Dublin

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS | RLDM

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ACM Special Interest Group on AI @acmsigai.bsky.social · Jan 13

Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025

Deadline this Week

The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers whose current work is an important influence

Deadline: 15th Jan 2025
Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR
#SIGAIAward

ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award - ACM SIGAI

2025 Award Call Nominations are solicited for the 2025 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to…

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Hadi Hosseini @hadihoss.bsky.social · Jan 12

Do you work on multi-agent systems or agent related reseach?

Submit your papers to 7th Games, Agents, and Incentives (GAIW) workshop AT AAMAS-25.

Accepting new work and accepted/submitted papers from AAAI, AAMAS, @neuripsconf.bsky.social, @icmlconf.bsky.social, @iclr-conf.bsky.social, etc.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · Jan 10

Just a reminder that the AAMAS Doctoral Consortium deadline is next Friday!

Please consider submitting to this great venue or telling your students about it.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · Dec 2

As a PhD student, would you like the opportunity to interact closely with established researchers and other students, receive feedback on your work, and get advice on managing your career?

Check out the Doctoral Consortium at #AAMAS 2025! Deadline: Jan 17th.

aamas2025.org/index.php/co...

Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium – AAMAS 2025 Detroit

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