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Chris Amato

@cjdamato.bsky.social

Associate Professor at Northeastern University and father of 3. Interests include artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, and robotics (he/him).

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Thanks, Marc!

22.01.2026 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out our new AAAI paper!

22.01.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RL Meetup Β· Luma Come be obsessive about RL. End time is fake, it goes till you stop wanting to talk about RL.

Come chat about RL at NeurIPS
luma.com/kfugw3t7

04.12.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhD in Computer Science - Khoury College of Computer Sciences The PhD in Computer Science program will prepare you with advanced knowledge, industry opportunities, and research experience to be a leader in the field.

I'm looking for two PhD student for Fall 2026. Both on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL).

- Theory of MARL: experience with theory and/or MARL

-Formal methods for MARL: experience with formal methods or MARL (interest in learning the other)

www.khoury.northeastern.edu/programs/com...

19.11.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

I am one the Executive Councilor Candidates for AAAI this year (along with a bunch of other great people). If you are a AAAI member you can see more info and vote for up to 4 of us at the link below.

aaai.memberclicks.net/2026election...

11.11.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a reminder, the AAMAS abstract deadline is October 1!

23.09.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to my PhD student, Xueguang Lyu, for defending his thesis "On Solving Cooperation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" with Rob Platt, @shimon8282.bsky.social, and Lawson Wong!

04.08.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congrats to my PhD student, Andrea Baisero, on defending his thesis on "Privileged Training Frameworks for Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning" with Rob Platt, Lawson Wong, and Chongjie Zhang.

10.07.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 Excited to share RL2Grid! A standardized suite of RL tasks for realistic power grid operations ⚑ Built with TSOs, RL2Grid aims to bring RL closer to real-world critical infrastructure.

πŸ“„ Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
πŸ’» Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...

Details below πŸ‘‡

01.07.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
RLC Call for Workshops

Propose some socials for RLC! Research topics, affinity groups, niche interests, whatever comes to mind!

rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...

25.06.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play Self-play has powered breakthroughs in two-player and multi-player games. Here we show that self-play is a surprisingly effective strategy in another domain. We show that robust and naturalistic drivi...

Hiring a postdoc to scale up and deploy RL-based planning onto some self-driving cars! We'll be building on arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349 and learn what the limits and challenges of RL planning are. Shoot me a message if interested and help spread the word please!

Full posting to come in a bit.

21.06.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Christopher Amato | A Short Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent RL | June 6, 2025 YouTube video by Deep RL Course

Here is a link to the shortish (1.5 hour) tutorial I gave the other day called A Short Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. Check it out and let me know what you think!

www.youtube.com/live/OQmJwBm...

18.06.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Christopher Amato -- Tutorials

The slides for the tutorial Frans Oliehoek and I gave at
@aamasconf.bsky.social (A Concise Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning) are below. Check them out and let us know what you think!

www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/camato/...

30.05.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Definitely Ay-MAS. I’m with you.

21.05.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are working on multi-agent RL, this should be a fun workshop to submit to! And a good excuse to go to RLC :)

21.05.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AAMAS 2025 Detroit

AAMAS 2025 is almost here!!! We’re thrilled to gather once again with the global community of researchers, practitioners, and innovators in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
πŸ“ Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
πŸ“… Dates: May 19–23

For more details visit the website: aamas2025.org

08.05.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Registration – AAMAS 2025 Detroit

Join Us for AAMAS 2025 in Detroit! Registration Now Open!

We are excited to announce that registration for AAMAS 2025 is now open! Don’t miss out β€” register today at aamas2025.org/index.php/co....

See you in Detroit! πŸš€

28.02.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Register NOW and save €100 off your registration fee!

Fees will increase by €100 on April 1st.

Looking forward to seeing you all in June! #RLDM2025

14.03.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Congrats, Shlomo!

11.03.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...

Congrats to Andy and Rich. A well-deserved recognition of their work and reinforcement learning in general!

awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

05.03.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025!

πŸ”— Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF...

Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

11.02.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

No, the abstract is just for the organizers to start organizing (e.g., lining up reviewers for the papers).

09.02.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!

08.02.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability - Yuchen Xiao, Weihao Tan, Joshua Hoffman, Tian Xia, Christopher Amato, 2025 The state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods provide promising solutions to a variety of complex problems. Yet, these methods all assu...

Check out our journal article summarizing our recent work on doing multi-agent reinforcement learning with temporally-extended actions led by Yuchen Xiao

Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

08.02.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
What’s Your Problem? An Oft-Missing Section in AI Papers – Learning and Intelligent Systems Group

With various deadlines approaching, I'll share again my plea for clear problem formulations πŸ™

lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...

20.01.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Accepted Workshops – AAMAS 2025 Detroit

Check out the accepted workshops at #AAMAS 2025!

Many of the deadlines are soon (end of Jan / start of Feb).

Please consider submitting your work to one of them. They were great last year.

aamas2025.org/index.php/co...

I will highlight individual workshops over the next few days.

14.01.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS | RLDM

The RLDM workshop list is now up! Have a look: rldm.org/call-for-wor...

More workshop details coming soon :)

There were so many wonderful submissions---this was really tough for the committee. Huge thanks to all involved, and looking forward to seeing folks in Dublin

12.01.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award - ACM SIGAI 2025 Award Call Nominations are solicited for the 2025 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to…

Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025

Deadline this Week

The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers whose current work is an important influence

Deadline: 15th Jan 2025
Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR
#SIGAIAward

13.01.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you work on multi-agent systems or agent related reseach?

Submit your papers to 7th Games, Agents, and Incentives (GAIW) workshop AT AAMAS-25.

Accepting new work and accepted/submitted papers from AAAI, AAMAS, @neuripsconf.bsky.social, @icmlconf.bsky.social, @iclr-conf.bsky.social, etc.

12.01.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Just a reminder that the AAMAS Doctoral Consortium deadline is next Friday!

Please consider submitting to this great venue or telling your students about it.

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10.01.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0