Chris Amato
@cjdamato.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Northeastern University and father of 3. Interests include artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, and robotics (he/him).
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.
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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...
aaai.memberclicks.net/2026election...
As a reminder, the AAMAS abstract deadline is October 1!
The abstracts submission deadline for the main technical tracks is fast approaching! Don't miss your chance to present your research in Cyprus and connect with top experts in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems🔔
📅 Submission deadline: October 1, 2025
#AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents
📅 Submission deadline: October 1, 2025
#AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents
September 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
As a reminder, the AAMAS abstract deadline is October 1!
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!
August 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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!
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.
July 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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.
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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.
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...
Details below 👇
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...
Details below 👇
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🚨 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.
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...
Details below 👇
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2503.23101
💻 Code: github.com/emarche/RL2G...
Details below 👇
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Propose some socials for RLC! Research topics, affinity groups, niche interests, whatever comes to mind!
rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...
rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...
RLC Call for Workshops
rl-conference.cc
June 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Propose some socials for RLC! Research topics, affinity groups, niche interests, whatever comes to mind!
rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...
rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...
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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.
Full posting to come in a bit.
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...
arxiv.org
June 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
Full posting to come in a bit.
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...
www.youtube.com/live/OQmJwBm...
Christopher Amato | A Short Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent RL | June 6, 2025
YouTube video by Deep RL Course
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June 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/live/OQmJwBm...
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/...
@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/...
Christopher Amato -- Tutorials
www.khoury.northeastern.edu
May 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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/...
@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/...
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 :)
⌛ The May 30th deadline for CoCoMARL 2025 at RLC (@rl-conference.bsky.social) is approaching soon, but there's still time!
Submit papers on our openreview or self-nominate to be a part of our program committee now at the following link 🥥🥥
sites.google.com/view/cocomar...
Submit papers on our openreview or self-nominate to be a part of our program committee now at the following link 🥥🥥
sites.google.com/view/cocomar...
CoCoMARL 2025
Call for Papers
sites.google.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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 :)
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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.
📍 Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
📅 Dates: May 19–23
For more details visit the website: aamas2025.org
📍 Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
📅 Dates: May 19–23
For more details visit the website: aamas2025.org
AAMAS 2025 Detroit
aamas2025.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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.
📍 Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
📅 Dates: May 19–23
For more details visit the website: aamas2025.org
📍 Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA
📅 Dates: May 19–23
For more details visit the website: aamas2025.org
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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 — register today at aamas2025.org/index.php/co....
See you in Detroit! 🚀
We are excited to announce that registration for AAMAS 2025 is now open! Don’t miss out — register today at aamas2025.org/index.php/co....
See you in Detroit! 🚀
Registration – AAMAS 2025 Detroit
aamas2025.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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 — register today at aamas2025.org/index.php/co....
See you in Detroit! 🚀
We are excited to announce that registration for AAMAS 2025 is now open! Don’t miss out — register today at aamas2025.org/index.php/co....
See you in Detroit! 🚀
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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
Fees will increase by €100 on April 1st.
Looking forward to seeing you all in June! #RLDM2025
March 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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
Fees will increase by €100 on April 1st.
Looking forward to seeing you all in June! #RLDM2025
Congrats, Shlomo!
This year's ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award goes to Prof. Shlomo Zilberstein. His work on decentralized Markov Decision Processes laid the foundation for decision-theoretic planning in multi-agent systems and multi-agent reinforcement learning.
sigai.acm.org/main/2025/03...
#SIGAIAward
sigai.acm.org/main/2025/03...
#SIGAIAward
Shlomo Zilberstein (2025 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Shlomo Zilberstein is the recipient of the 2025 award. Shlomo Zilberstein is Professor…
sigai.acm.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Congrats, Shlomo!
Congrats to Andy and Rich. A well-deserved recognition of their work and reinforcement learning in general!
awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
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...
awards.acm.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congrats to Andy and Rich. A well-deserved recognition of their work and reinforcement learning in general!
awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
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Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025!
🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF...
Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.
🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF...
Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025!
🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF...
Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.
🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF...
Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.
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🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!
February 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!
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/...
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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...
journals.sagepub.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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/...
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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With various deadlines approaching, I'll share again my plea for clear problem formulations 🙏
lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...
lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...
What’s Your Problem? An Oft-Missing Section in AI Papers – Learning and Intelligent Systems Group
lis.csail.mit.edu
January 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
With various deadlines approaching, I'll share again my plea for clear problem formulations 🙏
lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...
lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...
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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.
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.
Accepted Workshops – AAMAS 2025 Detroit
aamas2025.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Chris Amato
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
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
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS | RLDM
rldm.org
January 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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
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
Reposted by Chris Amato
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
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
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…
buff.ly
January 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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
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
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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.
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.
January 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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.
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.
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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.
👇
Please consider submitting to this great venue or telling your students about it.
👇
As a PhD student, would you like the opportunity to interact closely with established researchers and other students, receive feedback on your work, and get advice on managing your career?
Check out the Doctoral Consortium at #AAMAS 2025! Deadline: Jan 17th.
aamas2025.org/index.php/co...
Check out the Doctoral Consortium at #AAMAS 2025! Deadline: Jan 17th.
aamas2025.org/index.php/co...
Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium – AAMAS 2025 Detroit
aamas2025.org
January 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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.
👇
Please consider submitting to this great venue or telling your students about it.
👇
Reposted by Chris Amato
Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025
The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence
Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025
Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR
#SIGAIAward
The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence
Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025
Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR
#SIGAIAward
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…
buff.ly
January 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025
The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence
Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025
Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR
#SIGAIAward
The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence
Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025
Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR
#SIGAIAward