Are there any active reinforcement learning competitions?

Question

I like doing part-time research in reinforcement learning. In recent years (up to 2009) there was a reinforcement learning competition held at rl-competition.org with some very interesting problems, but this seems to have been discontinued. I'd love to improve my skills and knowledge and measure it against other enthusiasts in the field - are there still any such competitions around?

Answer 1

Doesn't look like it, the major people who organized it last year are busy graduating from PhD. You could email the students who organized it last time to ask though: Shimon Whiteson, Brian Tanner, and Adam White

Also, http://metaoptimize.com/qa is basically the stack overflow for the machine learning community, it's usually a better place for such ML-specific questions.