[NeurIPS2023] Call for papers: Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning workshop (IMOL@NeurIPS)

[Laetitia Teodorescu]

Dear colleagues,

We’re glad to announce the Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning
workshop at NeurIPS 2023 and are now accepting submissions!

Important dates:

Submission deadline: September 25 2023
Acceptance Notification: October 27 2023
Workshop date: December 15 or 16 2023 (TBD), in-person @NeurIPS 2023,
New Orleans, LA, USA

Website: https://imol-workshop.github.io/

Workshop Description:

The field of IMOL aims at the unified study of the motivational
forces, learning architectures, and developmental and environmental
constraints that support the development of open-ended repertoires of
skills and knowledge over learners' lifetimes. At this full-day
in-person NeurIPS workshop, we will gather speakers from a wide
diversity of scientific traditions, showcase on-going research via
contributed talks and poster sessions, and provide networking
opportunities for research and mentorship discussions (see website for
detailed program).

Submission Formats

We welcome 4-page submissions of technical, benchmark and opinion
papers on any topics related to the Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended
Learning themes across disciplines (machine learning, cognitive
sciences, philosophy, psychology, and more). Examples of topics
include:

Intrinsic motivation in machines and animals,
Autonomous open-ended learning,
Autonomous goal generation,
Self-supervised representation learning,
Hierarchical and goal-directed RL,
Curriculum learning,
Interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations,
Skill compositionality and chunking,
Knowledge transfer,
Avoiding catastrophic forgetting,
Learning neural/probabilistic abstract representations of state,
actions and skills,
Open-ended development in children,
Role of metacognitive representations and processes in open-ended learning,
Playful exploration,
Language and sociality in open-ended learning,
Mitigation of risks of open-ended learning,
Philosophical and ethical implications of IMOL.

Submission instructions:

Submissions must be made via OpenReview. They must be anonymized, up
to 4 pages long (excluding references and appendices) and use the
NeurIPS 2023 LaTeX template. Appendices can be added to the main PDF.
Each paper will receive two reviews; both authors and reviewers will
be anonymous throughout the process.

The papers should report original research, provide synthesis of
previous works or develop novel environments. Short opinion and review
papers are welcomed. Authors can upload concise versions of parallel
submissions to other conferences such as NeurIPS main conference or
ICLR. We accept dual submission but discourage submitting to multiple
NeurIPS workshops.

All accepted papers will be available on the workshop website, but no
formal workshop proceedings will be published.

For any questions, email us at imol.w...@gmail.com or reach us on
Twitter at https://twitter.com/IMOLNeurIPS2023!

Cheers,

The IMOL@NeurIPS 2023 Organizing Committee
https://imol-workshop.github.io/