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Chris Amato

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

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AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⏰ Final call: #AAMAS2027 abstracts are due tomorrow! 26th AAMAS, Hanoi 🇻🇳, 3–7 May 2027. Work welcome across the full breadth of agents and multiagent systems, including generative and agentic AI. 📅 Abstracts: 1 Oct
📅 Papers: 8 Oct 2026 (AoE) CfP below 👇
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A new version of my book on cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning is now available. A longer version will eventually be published with Frans Oliehoek so let us know your thoughts! arxiv.org/abs/2405.06161
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An Initial Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has exploded in popularity in recent years. While numerous approaches have been developed, they can be broadly categorized into three main types: centralized ...
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Public service announcement: State-based critics are wrong in partially observable domains. Don't use them. Thank you.
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Two papers accepted to RLC on multi-agent reinforcement learning. Some info is below and more coming soon! #RLC #ReinforcementLearning #MARL
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AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The countdown has begun! In just 20 days, we’ll gather for the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. 🔗 Registration System: easyconferences.org 🔗 Registration Guidelines: cyprusconferences.org/online-regis...
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Check out our new ICML paper: x.com/i/status/205...
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Shuo Liu on X: "LLM collaboration is being looked at by lots of people, but Decentralized LLM Collaboration is underexplored. Our ICML-26 paper proposes and analyzes 3 MARL algorithms for decentralized LLM collaboration, across writing, coding, and game-playing cooperation tasks. #ICML2026 https://t.co/xM3VndrBVE" / X
LLM collaboration is being looked at by lots of people, but Decentralized LLM Collaboration is underexplored. Our ICML-26 paper proposes and analyzes 3 MARL algorithms for decentralized LLM collaboration, across writing, coding, and game-playing cooperation tasks. #ICML2026 https://t.co/xM3VndrBVE
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We have the keynote speakers for RLC2026 now! Thrilled to welcome Rika Antonova, Sheila McIlraith, Marc G. Bellemare, Danijar Hafner, Balaraman Ravindran! Details: rl-conference.cc/index.html The RL community is coming together this August in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Hope you make it!
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RLC 2026
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Check out our new AAAI paper!
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Come chat about RL at NeurIPS luma.com/kfugw3t7
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RL Meetup · Luma
Come be obsessive about RL. End time is fake, it goes till you stop wanting to talk about RL.
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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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.
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
As a reminder, the AAMAS abstract deadline is October 1!
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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!
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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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Enrico Marchesini @emarche.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🚨 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 👇
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Propose some socials for RLC! Research topics, affinity groups, niche interests, whatever comes to mind! rl-conference.cc/call_for_soc...
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RLC Call for Workshops
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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.
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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...
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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...
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Christopher Amato | A Short Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent RL | June 6, 2025
YouTube video by Deep RL Course
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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/...
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Christopher Amato -- Tutorials
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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
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AAMAS 2025 Detroit
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AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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! 🚀
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Registration – AAMAS 2025 Detroit
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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Congrats, Shlomo!
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Congrats to Andy and Rich. A well-deserved recognition of their work and reinforcement learning in general! awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...
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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...
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RLDM @rldmparis2027.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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.
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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/...
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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...
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Tom Silver @tomssilver.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
With various deadlines approaching, I'll share again my plea for clear problem formulations 🙏 lis.csail.mit.edu/whats-your-p...
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What’s Your Problem? An Oft-Missing Section in AI Papers – Learning and Intelligent Systems Group
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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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.
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Accepted Workshops – AAMAS 2025 Detroit
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David Abel @dabelcs.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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
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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS | RLDM
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ACM Special Interest Group on AI @acmsigai.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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: buff.ly/4ir8hJR #SIGAIAward
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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…
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Hadi Hosseini @hadihoss.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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.
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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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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ACM Special Interest Group on AI @acmsigai.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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: buff.ly/4ir8hJR #SIGAIAward
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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…
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The 2025 Cooperative AI summer school (9-13 July 2025 near London) is now accepting applications, due March 7th! www.cooperativeai.com/summer-schoo...
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Cooperative AI
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ACM Special Interest Group on AI @acmsigai.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025 The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers whose current work is an important influence Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025 Details: buff.ly/4ir8hJR #SIGAIAward
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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…
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Black in Robotics @blackinrobotics.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Black in Robotics Student Travel Fellowships due 1/17/25 #BlackInRobotics #Fellowships #Awards @blackinengineering.bsky.social @blackinx.bsky.social blackinrobotics.org/bir-student-...
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I have a draft of my introduction to cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning on arxiv. Check it out and let me know any feedback you have. The plan is to polish and extend the material into a more comprehensive text with Frans Oliehoek. arxiv.org/abs/2405.06161
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A First Introduction to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has exploded in popularity in recent years. While numerous approaches have been developed, they can be broadly categorized into three main types: centralized ...
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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
ICML 2025 Call for Workshops is out. icml.cc/Conferences/...
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ICML 2025 Call for Workshops
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Csaba Szepesvari @skiandsolve.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
If you are into ML theory (RL or not) with a proven track record, and you are interested in an industry research position, PM me. Feel free to spread the word.
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Lukas Schäfer @lukaschaefer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
📚📢Christmas came early 🎅 Our new textbook on multi-agent reinforcement learning with @mitpress.bsky.social is out NOW! The book is available from MIT Press (mitpress.mit.edu/978026204937...) or your bookstore nearby. Why you should be interested, what you get, and more all in a 🧵👇
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you're at NeurIPS, RLC is hosting an RL event from 8 till late at The Pearl on Dec. 11th. Join us, meet all the RL researchers, and spread the word!
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I won't be at #NeurIPS2024 but say hi to Alina and Ethan at our poster on Friday: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
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NeurIPS Poster SleeperNets: Universal Backdoor Poisoning Attacks Against Reinforcement Learning AgentsNeurIPS 2024
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Chris Amato @cjdamato.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
@louiseadennis.bsky.social and I are program chairs for #AAMAS2026. I'm looking to try some new ideas for the reviewing process. Any ideas about some of your favorite (or least favorite) things other conferences have tried?
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We're trying something new with cover pages this year to help authors be very clear about their contributions and help reviewers assess if the paper matches the claims. Take a look!
A cover page representing a statement of contributions of a paper . This is intended to help the reader to see how a paper should structure this statement of contributions.
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Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🚨 PSA 🚨 Deadline to apply for your dream Phd in ML @FLAIR_Ox is coming up on the 2nd of December AOE. We work on compute-only scaling of LLMs, (meta/multi-agent) RL at the Hyperscale, Human-AI coordination, opponent-shaping for vaccine design, GenAI for finance & much more..
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DPhil in Engineering Science | University of Oxford
About the courseThe DPhil in Engineering Science will offer you the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise in your chosen field of engineering research. To support
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