David Abel

🎤 Meet Roshan Cools @coolscontrol.bsky.social , roshancools.com Excited to share our third speaker for RLDM 2027! Stay tuned for submission deadlines and further updates on our website: rldm.org 👀 #RLDM2027

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning or computer vision at the University of Edinburgh? My group works on topics related to: * Autonomous Scientific Discovery * Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning * 3D Vision and Robotics * AI for Ecology and Conservation

🎤 Meet Brian Christian @brianchristian.bsky.social, @chai-berkeley.bsky.social, brianchristian.org We’re pleased to introduce our second speaker for RLDM 2027! Stay tuned for submission deadlines and further updates on our website: rldm.org 👀 #RLDM2027

Add 'for Tax Purposes' to a philosophical title or assertion. Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent for Tax Purposes.

🎤 Meet Georgia Chalvatzaki pearl-lab.com We’re pleased to introduce the first of our 16 invited speakers confirmed for RLDM 2027! Stay tuned for submission deadlines and further updates on our website: rldm.org 👀 #RLDM2027

RLDM is returning in 2027!

📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀

Really excited to present our recent work at #ICLR2026 this week! 🚨 We discover highly coordinated joint behaviours and integrate them into the skill sets of MARL agents, accelerating the search for effective joint strategies in downstream tasks. 🧵👇 Paper link: raulsteleac.github.io/iaro

We have the keynote speakers for RLC2026 now! Thrilled to welcome Rika Antonova, Sheila McIlraith, Marc G. Bellemare, Danijar Hafner, Balaraman Ravindran! Details: rl-conference.cc/index.html The RL community is coming together this August in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Hope you make it!

Excited to share a new preprint, accepted as a spotlight at #NeurIPS2025! Humans are imperfect decision-makers, and autonomous systems should understand how we deviate from idealized rationality Our paper aims to address this! 👀🧠✨ arxiv.org/abs/2510.25951 a 🧵⤵️

Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc). Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊

Workshops day! 8 parallel sessions from gamification to chess, social inference, and AI + brains. Dive deep from 9–1 at Trinity Business & Hamilton. Full line-up rldm.org/workshops-20...

#RLDM2025 officially starts tomorrow! 🚀 Have you checked out our program? See details below, full program is available at rldm.org 👀 New to RLDM? Join our first-timers gathering tonight, 6-7pm, at Kennedy's Pub (30-32 Westland Row) 😊

Only ONE WEEK until #RLDM2025 ☘️ We can’t wait to welcome brilliant minds from AI, neuroscience, psychology & beyond for cutting-edge talks on reinforcement learning & decision making. Spaces are disappearing quickly so grab your spot before it’s gone! Register now 👉 rldm.org

Are world models necessary to achieve human-level agents, or is there a model-free short-cut? Our new #ICML2025 paper tackles this question from first principles, and finds a surprising answer, agents _are_ world models… 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622

New paper with Iason Gabriel on "Characterizing AI agents" is out! 2025 is being called the year of AI agents, with overwhelming headlines about them every day. But we lack a shared vocabulary to distinguish their fundamental properties. Our paper aims to bridge this gap. A 🧵

Barto and Sutton receive the Turing award! Amazing recognition for two kind, pioneering, and genuinely inspiring scientists. Congratulations!! awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

new paper: "Evolution and the Knightian Blindspot of Machine Learning" Our ever-changing world bubbles with surprise and complexity. General AI must include handling unforeseen situations with grace. Yet this issue largely lies outside AI's formalisms: a blind spot. (1/n)

📢 Call for Abstracts 📢 Submit your extended abstracts on "learning and decision-making over time to achieve a goal" to #RLDM2025. Successful applications will be selected for poster or oral presentation to an interdisciplinary audience. 🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15th 🔗 Learn more: rldm.org/call-for-abs...

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social! What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇

I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

Hey 👋 the deadline for submitting workshop proposals to #RLDM is fast approaching! We would especially love creative structures for workshops, like hackathons, debates or other traditional formats. Follow @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social for more updates!

We're looking for nominations for speakers to give a tutorial on RLDM topics to mixed audience of psychologist, neuroscientists and AI folks. Please contribute!

Have ideas for an interdisciplinary workshop? Get involved at RLDM to tackle key challenges, open problems, or controversial topics! 🎤 Formats: Talks, panels, hackathons, debates—your choice! 👥 All career stages welcome to lead. 🗓️ Deadline to apply: 10th December. Link 🔽 rldm.org/call-for-wor...

RLDM will be held next year in Dublin! A reminder that the call for workshops is out: rldm.org/call-for-wor... The workshops are one of my favourite parts of the conference :) please get in touch if you have any questions!

Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025) Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit