Call for Papers


Important Dates

  • Submissions open: April 1, 2024
  • Submission deadline: May 17, 2024 (AOE) (extended from May 8!)
  • Acceptance notification: May 30, 2024 (AOE)
  • Camera-ready papers due: July 9, 2024 (AOE)
  • Workshop date: August 9, 2024

Topics of Interest

We invite contributions on theory and practice of RL aimed at facilitating deployment to real-world problems, examples of which include but are not limited to:

  • Methods to enable deployability in RL: offline RL, offline policy evaluation (OPE), offline to online RL, safe learning and exploration, preference learning, learning in partially observable settings, interpretable policies in high-stakes settings, and methods for improving deployment efficiency.
  • Applications in personalization and recommendation systems: applications of RL and CB methods in technology platforms that interact with humans (e.g., audio and video recommendations, online advertising, LLMs).
  • Applications in industrial automation: applications of RL and CB methods in the control of physical systems or allocation of resources (e.g., inventory management, ride-sharing, commercial cooling systems, data center congestion control).
  • Applications in decision systems for healthcare: applications of RL and CB methods in healthcare (e.g., managing chronic conditions, digital treatment recommendations, human-in-the-loop RL).

The above are only a handful of suitable topics. We welcome submissions on any topic that focuses on the RL deployment process.

Guidelines

  • We welcome papers between 4 and 8 pages, excluding references/appendices. The length of the paper should be commensurate with its contribution. Both short and long papers are welcomed.
    • The paper should be in our version of the RLC workshop format (Overleaf link).
    • You may use as many pages of references and appendix as you wish, but reviewers are not required to read the appendix.
  • The review process will be double-blind and therefore, papers should be anonymized.
  • Accepted papers are not considered an archival publication and there will not be workshop proceedings. Submissions that are concurrently under review at other venues are therefore allowed (assuming dual-submission and anonymity policies of other venues are not violated).
  • All accepted papers will be presented as posters and will be made available on the workshop website.