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Workshop
Fri Dec 13 08:00 AM -- 06:40 PM (PST) @ East Ballroom A
Safety and Robustness in Decision-making
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh · Shie Mannor · Yisong Yue · Marek Petrik · Yinlam Chow





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Interacting with increasingly sophisticated decision-making systems is becoming more and more a part of our daily life. This creates an immense responsibility for designers of these systems to build them in a way to guarantee safe interaction with their users and good performance, in the presence of noise and changes in the environment, and/or of model misspecification and uncertainty. Any progress in this area will be a huge step forward in using decision-making algorithms in emerging high stakes applications, such as autonomous driving, robotics, power systems, health care, recommendation systems, and finance.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry in order to discuss main challenges, describe recent advances, and highlight future research directions pertaining to develop safe and robust decision-making systems. We aim to highlight new and emerging theoretical and applied research opportunities for the community that arise from the evolving needs for decision-making systems and algorithms that guarantee safe interaction and good performance under a wide range of uncertainties in the environment.

Opening Remarks (Opening Presentation)
Aviv Tamar: Visual Plan Imagination - An Interpretable Robot Learning Framework (Invited Talk)
Daniel Kuhn: From Data to Decisions: Distributionally Robust Optimization is Optimal (Invited Talk)
Poster Session (Posters)
Finale Doshi-Velez: Combining Statistical methods with Human Input for Evaluation and Optimization in Batch Settings (Invited Talk)
Marco Pavone: On Safe and Efficient Human-robot Interactions via Multi-modal Intent Modeling and Reachability-based Safety Assurance (Invited Talk)
Dimitar Filev: Practical Approaches to Driving Policy Design for Autonomous Vehicles (Invited Talk)
Lunch Break (Lunch)
Nathan Kallus: Efficiently Breaking the Curse of Horizon with Double Reinforcement Learning (Invited Talk)
Scott Niekum: Scaling Probabilistically Safe Learning to Robotics (Invited Talk)
Poster Session and Coffee Break (Break)
Andy Sun: Recent Advances in Multistage Decision-making under Uncertainty: New Algorithms and Complexity Analysis (Invited Talk)
Thorsten Joachim: Fair Ranking with Biased Data (Invited Talk)
Concluding Remarks (Remarks)