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The Second Annual Reinforcement Learning Competition will conclude with a workshop at ICML-08 at which the winners will be announced. All competitors are invited to participate in the poster session and top competitors will be invited to give short whiteboard talks about their methods. There will also be several moderated discussions on topics including the challenges of empirical RL and the future of the competition. Note that early registration for ICML-08 ends on May 31st. Whiteboard Talks
Top competitors in each domain will be asked to give short (~10 minute) whiteboard talks describing their methods. Since the winners won't be announced until the workshop itself, all competitors attending the workshop should come prepared to give such a talk. Poster SessionAll competitors are invited to participate in the poster session at the workshop. However, space is limited so spots will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis. If you wish to present a poster at the workshop, send a short abstract (1 paragraph) to
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no later than June 15th.
Tentative Schedule | 9:00 - 9:10 |
| Welcome and introductions | | 9:10 - 9:30 | | Oveview of competition setup and goals | 9:30 - 10:00
| | Award ceremony
| 10:00 - 12:00
| | Overview of domains and whiteboard talks by top competititors: Mountain Car, Tetris, Helicopter, Keepaway | | | | | | 12:00 - 1:30 | | Lunch | | | | | | 1:30 - 2:30 | | Overview of domains and whiteboard talks by top competititors: Real Time Strategy and Polyathlon | | 2:30 - 3:15 | | “Challenges in Empirical RL” discussion led by Andrew Ng | | 3:15 - 4:00 | | "Competition Post-Mortem" discussion led by Brian Tanner
| | | | | | 4:00 - 4:15 | | Coffee break | | | | | | 4:15 - 5:00 | | “Planning Future Competitions” discussion led by Rich Sutton | 5:00 - 6:00
| | Poster session
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