Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Beyond Rewards: Ingredients for Developing Generalist Agents

Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) 2025

August 5, 2025

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Throughout the day we will be livestreaming invited talks, spotlight talks and poster presentations.

All times listed are in Mountain Daylight Time (GMT-6). Please click here for a timezone converter from GMT.

Time (GMT-6) Speaker Description
08:45am - 09:00am Introduction and Opening Remarks
09:00am - 09:35am Ahmed Touati Bootstrapping Reinforcement Learning: Pre-training RL Agents Through RL
09:35am - 10:10am Furong Huang From Perception to Action: World Model Learning for Generalist Agents
10:15am - 11:00am Coffee Break + Posters
11:00am - 11:35am Giorgia Ramponi Multi-Agent Learning from Demonstrations
11:35am - 12:25pm Contributed talks (spotlights) (5 min each + 2 min Q/A)
  • (11.35-11.42): VideoAgent: Self-Improving Video Generation for Embodied Planning
  • (11.43-11.50): Learning Equilibria from Data: Provably Efficient Multi-Agent Imitation Learning
  • (11.51-11.58): InfoQuest: Evaluating Multi-Turn Dialogue Agents for Open-Ended Conversations with Hidden Context
  • (11.59-12.06): Towards An Option Basis To Optimize All Rewards
  • (12.07-12.14): Fine-tuning Behavioral Cloning Policies with Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning
  • (12.15-12.22): Provably Learning from Language Feedback
12:30pm - 02:00pm Lunch Break
02:00pm - 02:35pm Chelsea Finn Ingredients for Scaling Robot Reinforcement Learning
02:35pm - 03:10pm George Konidaris Reintegrating AI: Skills, Symbols, and the Sensorimotor Dilemma.
03:10pm - 04:00pm Coffee Break + Posters
04:00pm - 04:35pm Michael Dennis RL’s Future is in Virtual Environments
04:35pm - 04:50pm Closing remarks