Excited to announce that China Machine Press will publish the Chinese translation of our new MARL textbook in Dec 2025 📚 Looking forward to more audiences being able to reach the fascinating world of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning 🎉 The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social marl-book.com

UPDATE: The copyedited version (formatting edits, index list) of the MARL book is now online! marl-book.com

Next is the book cover design and then the book will go to print and stores in late 2024!

Lecture slides will be released in coming weeks.

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Our 2018 survey in AIJ on Agent Modelling with Peter Stone has reached 500 citations! 🎆 Five years after publication, many of the open problems listed in Sec5 are still wide open, esp 'Autonomous Model Contemplation and Revision'. Lots of PhD topics!

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For people interested in explainable/trustworthy AI, with focus on #AutonomousDriving , we have released a new survey!

Explainable AI for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Driving: A Systematic Review
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IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Explainable AI

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Great start in 2024! New papers from our group: TMLR Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2x AAMAS24 The AAMAS Conference, AAAI24 AAAI, ICLR24 ICLR 2024, ICRA24 ICRA2024.
PLUS new Workshop on Ad Hoc Teamwork at AAAI24 AAAI sites.google.com/view/ad-hoc-te….
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Wikipedia says the model I developed in my PhD, Stochastic Bayesian Game (SBG), has been applied in a range of problems. This is very cool🙂
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New postdoc position in our group at School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh on RL and imitation learning for robot navigation in simulated environments using MIDGARD (midgardsim.org).
Full position details: agents.inf.ed.ac.uk/Postdoc_RL-IL_…
Application deadline: December 27th 2023

This week going to Boston to visit colleagues and give talks about our research and new MARL textbook (marl-book.com) at Northeastern, Harvard, MIT, UK consulate. Then next week to New Orleans for NeurIPS Conference! All welcome at talks, pls get in touch if you want to meet.

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We’re delighted that Shreyank Narayana Gowda passed his viva with minor corrections!
Supervised by Dr Frank Keller and Laura Sevilla-Lara, Shreyank’s research is about Resource Efficient Action Recognition.

New draft version of our book 'Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches' The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social released. Includes improvements in chapter 4, restructured chapters 5 & 6, and additional topics.
Download: marl-book.com
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New version available now!

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We're delighted Traiko Dinev passed their viva with minor corrections! Supervised by Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, Traiko’s research is about “Concurrent Design and Motion Planning in Robotics using Differentiable Optimal Control”

Last week at @aamas2023 and ICRA2024 #ICRA2023 was excellent. Our book marl-book.com got much attention and has been downloaded over 2500 times after one week! Huge thanks to Karl Tuyls for featuring it in his keynote.

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