[CFP] Sixth International Workshop on Intrinsically-Motivated Open-ended Learning (IMOL2023)

[Stephane Doncieux]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Sixth International Workshop on Intrinsically-Motivated Open-ended Learning (IMOL2023)”, which will be held at the Science campus of Sorbonne University (Pierre et Marie Curie), in Paris center (France) on September 13-15th 2023.

Following the five previous workshops, IMOL 2023 will further explore the advancements of intrinsically motivated open-ended lifelong learning. The workshop aims to be a highly interactive event with high-profile keynote presentations and the participation of an audience of about 60 people. It will foster close interaction among the participants with discussions, poster sessions, and collective round tables directed towards specific objectives.

**Participating in IMOL2023**

Participation in the workshop is free of charge but, given the specific nature of the meeting, is limited to a restricted number of people. Prospective attendees should submit either a brief statement of motivation or (preferably) an abstract to be presented as a poster or contributed talk.

The submission should be made by July 10, 2023 over easychair following the instructions at https://imolconf2023.github.io/ 

Topics of interest involve open-ended lifelong learning in autonomous agents and robots, for example:

Autonomous robot open-ended learning

Architectures for open-ended learning

Multi-task reinforcement learning

Deep reinforcement learning

Intrinsic motivations

Curriculum learning

Goal self-generation

Open-ended development

Quality Diversity methods

Multiple task solution and parameterized skills

Neural/probabilistic representations and abstractions

Goal-based skill learning

Knowledge transfer and avoidance of catastrophic forgetting

Compositionality and chunking

Abstraction and hierarchies of goals and skills

Visual planning and problem solving

Mitigating risks of real-world deployment of open-ended learning systems

Language-based reinforcement learning

Important Dates:

Abstract submission and registration deadline: July 10, 2023

Conference dates: 13th to the 15th of September 2023

The organizers of IMOL’23: Stéphane Doncieux Georg Martius Sao Mai Nguyen Emre Ugur Johann Huber