[Call for papers]: Trustworthy Interactive Decision-Making with Foundation Models Workshop (TIDMwFM)@IJCAI 2024

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Dear Colleagues,

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Please share the following call for papers. 

Trustworthy Interactive Decision-Making with Foundation Models Workshop (TIDMwFM)@IJCAI 2024

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/ijcai24-tfm  

This forward-looking workshop provides a forum to shape discussion on human-centric techniques that promote ethical and trustworthy integration of foundation models into interactive decision support systems. Sessions will review progress in areas like safe reinforcement learning and large language models (LLMs) based agents while also delineating open challenges around uncertainty quantification, safety evaluation, preference alignment, and responsible deployment in interactive settings.

Topics:

• Open-world agents using foundation models for interactive decision support
• Interactive interfaces for recommendation systems using foundation models
• Techniques for uncertainty quantification in interactive AI systems
• Methods for bias detection and mitigation in embodied agents
• Analysis of trust and transparency issues in human-AI collaborative decision making
• Interactive elicitation of human preferences and values for AI alignment
• Evaluation of model robustness in interactive settings
• Advances in explainable agency for fostering appropriate reliance
• Frameworks and best practices for responsible real-world deployment

Important Dates:

• Workshop date: August 3, 2024
• Submission opens: April 1, 2024
• Submission deadline:  April 26, 2024
• Acceptance notification:  June 4, 2024
• Camera-ready and poster upload deadline: TBD

Submission Guidelines:

We invite submissions of abstracts up to 4 pages, excluding references that discuss early-stage or mature work related to the topics above. Accepted abstracts will be presented as spotlight talks within thematic sessions at the workshop. We also welcome expressions of interest for demonstration sessions showcasing relevant systems.
The submissions in the workshop will be non-archival and does not preclude from future submission at other venues. TIDMwFM@IJCAI'24 Workshop is now accepting submissions via Openreview. 

Best regards,

Ming Jin, Ruoxi Jia, Bo Li,  Naren Ramakrishnan, Shangding Gu, Yi Zeng, Vanshaj Khattar  (the TIDMwFM Workshop organizers) 

[Sven Koenig]

Call For Participation: 2024 League of Robot Runners Virtual Expo

https://expo24.leagueofrobotrunners.org

Hello search researchers!

The League of Robot Runners is a competition series that tackles one of the most challenging problems in automated logistics: coordinating a team of moving robots. Such problems often appear in the research literature, where they are modelled and solved using a variety of simplifying assumptions. The League of Robot Runners aims to bridge the gap, between academia and industry, by identifying the core combinatorial challenges that make robot coordination problems difficult to solve, in practice.

The first round of this competition was held in 2023 and received a total of 825 submissions from 25 teams worldwide, which is a big success! To celebrate, we are holding a Virtual Expo --- a free online event where we highlight the community’s progress and achievements thus far and look ahead at the challenges that yet remain.

The expo is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the challenging problems being tackled by the competition, their importance to the industry, and the experiences, insights, and innovative approaches of leading participants. 

Program Highlights:

The technical program will feature a number of sessions that will be of interest to competition participants and members of the broader MAPF community:

• Industry keynote from Federico Pecora (Amazon Robotics): hear about the many challenges and opportunities in this exciting research area

• Highlights and awards from the 2023 main round: celebrate with us!

• Technical talks from successful participants: hear experiences, insights and more.

• Community discussion: reflections on the competition initiative and exciting news about the 2024 main round.

We encourage all interested individuals to join us for this exciting occasion! This includes past participants, interested future participants and members of the broader research community with an interest in Multi-Agent and/or Multi-Robot Path Planning.

Event Details:

• Date: May 20th, 2024

• Time: 1530 EDT (UTC-4)

• Location: the event will be held online via Zoom

Registration:

Secure your spot via the event website: https://expo24.leagueofrobotrunners.org/registration/. Once registered, you will receive email instructions for the details of joining the Virtual Expo.

We look forward to your participation in this exciting event!

Best Regards,

The organisers, League of Robot Runners