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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’re writing to announce the workshop on <b>Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning</b> (IMOL) at NeurIPS 2023! Please see below for more information about the workshop and submission process.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Website</b>: <a href="https://imol-workshop.github.io/"><span style="color:windowtext">https://imol-workshop.github.io</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Important dates:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Submission deadline: 25 September, 2023<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Acceptance notification: 27 October, 2023<o:p></o:p></li><div>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Workshop date: 15 or 16 December, 2023<span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></li></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Workshop Description </span>
</b><span style="color:black">(see <a href="https://imol-workshop.github.io/">website</a> for more details).</span><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">How do humans develop broad and flexible repertoires of knowledge and skills? How can we design autonomous lifelong learning machines with the same abilities?
</span></i><span style="color:black">The field of IMOL explores these questions through integrating research on the motivational forces, learning architectures, and developmental and environmental constraints supporting the acquisition of open-ended repertoires
of skill and knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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. Invited speakers include Michael Tomasello, Georg Martius, Natalia Velez, and Feryal Behbani.
<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Submission Formats<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="color:black">We welcome 4-page submissions of empirical, technical, benchmark and opinion papers on any topics relevant to Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning themes across disciplines (machine learning, cognitive sciences, philosophy,
psychology, and more). Examples include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:11.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Intrinsic motivation in machines and animals,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Autonomous open-ended learning,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Autonomous goal generation,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Self-supervised representation learning,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Hierarchical and goal-directed RL,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Curriculum learning,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Skill compositionality and chunking,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Knowledge transfer,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Avoiding catastrophic forgetting,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Learning neural/probabilistic abstract representations of state, actions and skills,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Open-ended development in children,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Role of metacognitive representations and processes in open-ended learning,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Playful exploration,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Language and sociality in open-ended learning,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Mitigation of risks of open-ended learning,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:11.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">Philosophical and ethical implications of IMOL.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Submission instructions:</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="color:black">Submissions must be made via <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2023/Workshop/IMOL">
<span style="color:#1155CC">OpenReview</span></a>. They must be anonymized, up to 4 pages long (excluding references and appendices) and use the
<a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2023/PaperInformation/StyleFiles"><span style="color:#1155CC">NeurIPS 2023 LaTeX template</span></a>. Appendices can be added to the main PDF. Each paper will receive two reviews; both authors and reviewers will be anonymous
throughout the process. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="color:black">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
including the NeurIPS main conference. We accept dual submission but discourage submitting to multiple NeurIPS workshops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in">
<span style="color:black">All accepted papers will be available on the workshop website, but no formal workshop proceedings will be published.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For any questions, email us at <a href="mailto:imol.workshop@gmail.com">
<span style="color:#1155CC">imol.workshop@gmail.com</span></a> or reach us on Twitter at
<a href="https://twitter.com/IMOLNeurIPS2023"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://twitter.com/IMOLNeurIPS2023</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">cheers,<br>
The IMOL@NeurIPS 2023 Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://imol-workshop.github.io/"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://imol-workshop.github.io/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">--<br>
Junyi Chu, Ph.D. (she/her)<br>
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Dept. Psychology<br>
Computation, Cognition, and Development Lab</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jiitnhMAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank" title="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jiitnhMAAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="color:#0078D7">Google
Scholar</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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