Monday, September 24, 2018
| Time (PDT) | Session | Speaker | |
| 9:00 AM–9:10 AM | Welcome | ![]() |
John Langford Microsoft Research NYC |
| 9:10 AM–9:55 AM | Programming Agents via Evaluative Feedback | (opens in new tab) |
Michael Littman (opens in new tab) Brown University |
| 9:55 AM–10:25 AM | Directions and Challenges in Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning | ![]() |
Katja Hofmann Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| 10:25 AM–10:45 AM | Break | ||
| 10:45 AM–11:30 AM | (opens in new tab) |
Catherine Hartley (opens in new tab) New York University |
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| 11:30 AM–12:15 PM | Machine Learning for Robot Perception, Planning, and Control | (opens in new tab) |
Byron Boots (opens in new tab) Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 12:15 PM–1:45 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:45 PM–2:15 PM | Imitating the Clairvoyant Oracle: From Information Gathering to Grounded Visual Navigation via Natural Language | ![]() |
Debadeepta Dey Microsoft Research Redmond |
| 2:15 PM–3:00 PM | Representation, Memory, and Control: The Challenges of Deep RL in Complex Environments | (opens in new tab) |
Raia Hadsell (opens in new tab) Google DeepMind |
| 3:00 PM–3:30 PM | Trying to Solve Text-based Games Using Reinforcement Learning | ![]() |
Marc-Alexandre Côté Microsoft Research Montréal |
| 3:30 PM–3:50 PM | Break | ||
| 3:50 PM–4:20 PM | Hierarchical Imitation and Reinforcement Learning | ![]() |
Miro Dudík Microsoft Research NYC |
| 4:20 PM–5:05 PM | (opens in new tab) |
Shipra Agrawal (opens in new tab) Columbia University |
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| 5:05 PM–5:15 PM | Concluding Remarks | ![]() |
Hal Daumé III Microsoft Research NYC |










