Publications

The following is a list of publications in reverse chronological order. Many of the references have links that allow you access to that publication. Please contact the lab or a specific author if you have any questions. Links associated with a particular reference (e.g., conference) were current at the time of publication.

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2017

Durugkar, I., Gemp, I., Mahadevan, S.
Generative Multi-Adversarial Networks
In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2017.
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Guo, X., Klinger, T., Rosenbaum, C., Bigus, J. P., Campbell, M., Kawas, B., Talamadupula, K., Tesauro, G., Singh, S.
Learning to Query, Reason, and Answer Questions On Ambiguous Texts
In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2017.
[ pdf ]

2016

Dernbach, S., Taft, N., Kurose, J., Weinsberg, U., Diot, C., and Ashkan, A.
Cache Content-Selection Policies for Streaming Video Services
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2016.
[ pdf ]

2015

Wang, L., Feng, M., Zhou, B., Xiang, B. and Mahadevan, S.
Efficient hyper-parameter optimization for NLP applications
Empirical Methods in Natural language processing (EMNLP), Portugal, September 2015.
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Mahadevan, S. and Chandar, S.
Reasoning about Linguistic Regularities in Word Embeddings using Matrix Manifolds
Arxiv, July 2015.
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Theocharous, G., Thomas, P. and Ghavamzadeh, M.
Personalized Ad Recommendation Systems for Life-Time Value Optimization with Guarantees
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2015.
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Giguere, S., Carey, C., Boucher, T., Mahadevan, S. and Dyar, M.D.
An Optimization Perspective on Baseline Removal for Spectroscopy
Proceedings of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space, 2015.
Boucher, T., Carey, C., Giguere, S., Mahadevan, S., Dyar, M.D., Clegg, S. and Wiens, R.
Manifold Learning for Regression of Mars Spectra
Proceedings of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space, 2015.
Carey, C., Boucher, T., Giguere, S., Mahadevan, S. and Dyar, M.D.
Automatic Whole-Spectrum Matching
Proceedings of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space, 2015.
Theocharous, G., Thomas, P. and Ghavamzadeh, M.
Ad Recommendation Systems for Life-Time Value Optimization
TargetAd 2015: Ad Targeting at Scale, at the World Wide Web Conference, 2015.
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Liu, B., Liu, J., Ghavamzadeh, M., Mahadevan, S., and Petrik, M.
Finite-Sample Analysis of Proximal Gradient TD Algorithms
Proceedings of the 31th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2015.
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Thomas, P., Theocharous, G. and Ghavamzadeh, M.
High Confidence Policy Improvement
Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.
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Boucher, T., Ozanne, M., Carmosino, M., Dyar, M.D., Mahadevan, S., Breves, E., Lepore, K. and Clegg, S.
A study of machine learning regression methods for major elemental analysis of rocks using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Spectrochimica Acta Part B, vol. 107, pp. 1-10, 2015.
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Gemp, I. and Mahadevan, S.
Finding Equilibria in Large Games using Variational Inequalities
AAAI Spring Symposium on Applied Computational Game Theory, Stanford, CA, 2015.
[ pdf ]
Boucher, T., Carey C., Mahadevan, S., and Dyar, M.D.
Aligning Mixed Manifolds
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference, Austin, Texas, 2015.
[ pdf ]
Thomas, P., Theocharous, G., and Ghavamzadeh, M.
High Confidence Off-Policy Evaluation
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference, Austin, Texas, 2015.
[ pdf ]
Gemp, I. and Mahadevan, S.
Solving Large Scale Substainable Supply Chain Networks using Variational Inequalities
AAAI Workshop on Computational Sustainability, Austin, TX, 2015.
[ pdf ]

2014

da Silva, B.C., Konidaris, G., and Barto, A.G.
Active Learning of Parameterized Skills
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014). Beijing, China, 2014.
[ pdf ]
Thomas, P. S.
GeNGA: A Generalization of Natural Gradient Ascent with Positive and Negative Convergence Results
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014). Beijing, China, 2014.
[ pdf ]
Thomas, P. S.
Bias in Natural Actor-Critic Algorithms
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2014). Beijing, China, 2014.
[ pdf ]
da Silva, B.C., Baldassarre, G., Konidaris, G., and Barto, A.G.
Learning Parameterized Motor Skills on a Humanoid Robot
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014). Hong Kong, China, 2014.
[ pdf | video ]
Mahadevan, S., Liu, B., Thomas, P. S., Dabney, W., Giguere, S., Jacek, N., Gemp, I., and Liu, J.
Proximal Reinforcement Learning: A New Theory of Sequential Decision Making in Primal-Dual Spaces
Arxiv, May 26, 2014.
[ pdf | arxiv ]
Carey, C. and Mahadevan, S.
Manifold Spanning Graphs
Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014.
[ pdf ]
Dabney, W., and Thomas, P. S.
Natural Temporal Difference Learning
Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014.
[ pdf ]

2013

Thomas, P. S., Dabney, W., Mahadevan, S., and Giguere, S.
Projected natural actor-critic.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26, 2013.
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Shah, A., Barto, A.G., and Fagg, A.H.
A Dual Process Account of Coarticulation in Motor Skill Acquisition.
Journal of Motor Behavior, volume 45, pages 531--549.
[ DOI link ]
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S.
Manifold Alignment Preserving Global Geometry.
Proceedings of the IJCAI Conference, August 3-9, 2013, Beijing, China.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S., Giguere, S., and Jacek, N.
Basis Adaptation for Sparse Nonlinear Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference, July 14-18, 2013, Bellevue, Washington.
[ pdf ]
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S.
Multiscale Manifold Learning.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference, July 14-18, 2013, Bellevue, Washington.
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Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
Variable risk control via stochastic optimization.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, June 2013, vol. 32 no. 7 806-825.
[ pdf ]

2012

Thomas, P. and Barto, A. G.
Motor primitive discovery
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics, 2012.
[ pdf ]
Liu, B., Mahadevan, S., and Liu, J.
Regularized Off-Policy TD-Learning.
Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 1-3, 2012, Lake Tahoe, CA.
[ pdf ]
S. Niekum, S. Osentoski, G.D. Konidaris, and Andrew G. Barto.
Learning and Generalization of Complex Tasks from Unstructured Demonstrations.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 5239-5246, October 2012.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. and Liu, B.
Sparse Q-learning with Mirror Descent.
Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI), August 15-17, 2012, Catalina Island, CA.
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Vu, H., Carey, C., and Mahadevan, S.
Manifold Warping: Manifold Alignment over Time.
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 22-26, 2012, Toronto, Canada.
[ pdf ]
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S.
Manifold Alignment Preserving Global Geometry.
Technical Report, UMass Computer Science Department UM-CS-2012-031, 2012.
[ pdf ]
Wang, C., Liu, B., Vu, H., and Mahadevan, S.
Sparse Manifold Alignment.
Technical Report, UMass Computer Science UM-2012-030, 2012.
[ pdf ]
Kuindersma, S.R.
Variable Risk Policy Search for Dynamic Robot Control.
PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]
da Silva, B.C. and Barto, A.G.
TD-Δπ: A Model-Free Algorithm for Efficient Exploration
Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012). Toronto, Canada, July 2012.
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Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
Variational Bayesian Optimization for Runtime Risk-Sensitive Control.
In Robotics: Science and Systems VIII, Sydney, Australia, July 2012.
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Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
Variable Risk Dynamic Mobile Manipulation.
In RSS 2012 Mobile Manipulation Workshop, Sydney, Australia, July 2012.
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da Silva, B.C., Konidaris, G., and Barto, A.G.
Learning Parameterized Skills.
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012). Edinburg, Scotland, June 2012.
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da Silva, B.C., Barto, A.G., and Kurose, J.
Designing Adaptive Sensing Policies for Meteorological Phenomena via Spectral Analysis of Radar Images.
Technical Report UM-CS-2012-006, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 2012.
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Konidaris, G., Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
Robot Learning from Demonstration by Constructing Skill Trees.
The International Journal of Robotics Research 31(3), pages 260-275, March 2012.
[ pdf | ijrr ]

2011

Konidaris, G.D., Niekum, S., and Thomas, P.S.
TDγ: Reevaluating Complex Backups in Temporal Difference Learning.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24 (NIPS). Granada, Spain. December 2011.
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Niekum, S., and Barto, A.G.
Clustering via Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Portable Skill Discovery.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24 (NIPS). Granada, Spain. December 2011.
[ pdf ]
Thomas, P.S.
Policy Gradient Coagent Networks.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24 (NIPS). Granada, Spain. December 2011.
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Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
Learning Dynamic Arm Motions for Postural Recovery.
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '11). Bled, Slovenia, October 2011.
[ pdf ]
Thomas, P. and Barto, A.
Conjugate Markov Decision Processes.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML '11), June 2011.
[ pdf ] [ source code ]
Konidaris, G., Osentoski, S., and Thomas, P.
Value Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning using the Fourier Basis.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '11), August 2011.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G., Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
CST: Constructing Skill Trees by Demonstration.
In Proceedings of the ICML Workshop on New Developments in Imitation Learning, July 2011.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G., Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
Acquiring Transferrable Mobile Manipulation Skills.
In the RSS 2011 Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Learning to Manipulate, June 2011.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.
Autonomous Robot Skill Acquisition.
PhD thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, M.
Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation using Manifold Alignment.
In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11). July 18-23, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
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Wang, C. and Mahadevan, M.
Jointly Learning Data-Depdendent Label and Locality-Preserving Projections.
In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11). July 18-23, 2011, Barcelona, Spain.
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Foster, B., Mahadevan, S., and Wang, R.
GPU-Based Approximate SVD Algorithm.
9th International Conference on Parallel Programming and Mathematics, Torun, Poland, September 11-14, 2011.
[ pdf ]
(also available as Technical Report UM-CS-2011-025, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Wang. C., Krafft, P., and Mahadevan, S.
Manifold Alignment.
appearing in Manifold Learning: Theory and Applications, Taylor and Francis CRC Press, 2011
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Liu, B. and Mahadevan, S.
Compressive Reinforcement Learning with Oblique Random Projections.
Technical Report UM-CS-2011-024, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2011.
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Konidaris, G., Kuindersma, S., Grupen, R., and Barto, A.
Autonomous Skill Acquisition on a Mobile Manipulator.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11). San Francisco, CA. August 2011.
[ pdf ]

2010

Kuindersma, S., Konidaris, G., Grupen, R., and Barto, A. (2010).
Learning from a Single Demonstration: Motion Planning with Skill Segmentation (poster abstract).
NIPS Workshop on Learning and Planning in Batch Time Series Data. Whistler, BC. December 2010.
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Konidaris, G., Kuindersma, S., Barto, A., and Grupen, R. (2010).
Constructing Skill Trees for Reinforcement Learning Agents from Demonstration Trajectories.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23 (NIPS). Vancouver, BC. December 2010.
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Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2010)
Multiscale Manifold Alignment.
Technical Report UM-CS-2010-049, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2010)
Learning Locality Preserving Discriminative Features.
Technical Report UM-CS-2010-048, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Wang, C. (2010)
A Geometric Framework for Transfer Learning Using Manifold Alignment.
PhD thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Theocharous, G. and Mahadevan, S. (2010)
Compressing POMDPs using Locality Preserving Non-Negative Matrix Factorization.
24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '10), Atlanta, GA, July 11-15, 2010.
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Mahadevan, S. (2010)
Representation Discovery in Sequential Decision Making.
24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '10), Atlanta, GA, July 11-15, 2010.
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Osentoski, S. and Mahadevan, S. (2010)
Basis Function Construction in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.
9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS '10), Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010.
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Vigorito, C.M. and Barto, A.G. (2010)
Intrinsically Motivated Hierarchical Skill Learning in Structured Environments.
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (IEEE TAMD). Volume 2, Issue 2.
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Kuindersma, S. (2010)
Control Model Learning for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation (extended abstract).
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10). Atlanta, GA. July, 2010.
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Niekum, S. (2010)
Evolved Intrinsic Reward Functions for Reinforcement Learning (extended abstract).
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10). Atlanta, GA. July, 2010.
Wolfe, A.P. (2010)
Paying Attention To What Matters: Observation Abstraction In Partially Observable Environments.
PhD thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]
Johns, J.T. (2010)
Basis Construction and Utilization for Markov Decision Processes Using Graphs.
PhD thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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2009

Osentoski, S. (2009)
Action-Based Representation Discovery in Markov Decision Processes.
PhD thesis, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2009)
Skill Discovery in Continuous Reinforcement Learning Domains using Skill Chaining.
In Y. Bengio, D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C.K.I. Williams and A. Culotta (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS '09), pp. 1015-1023.
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Vigorito, C.M. and Barto, A.G. (2009)
Incremental Structure Learning in Factored MDPs with Continuous States and Actions.
Technical Report UM-CS-2009-029, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Singh, S., Lewis, R.L., and Barto A.G.(2009)
Where Do Rewards Come From?
In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2601-2606. Austin, TX.
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Johns, J. and Mahadevan, S. (2009)
Sparse Approximate Policy Evaluation using Graph-based Basis Functions.
Technical Report UM-CS-2009-041, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2009)
A General Framework for Manifold Alignment.
AAAI Fall Symposium on Manifold Learning, Arlington, VA, November 5-7.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2009)
Towards the Autonomous Acquisition of Robot Skill Hierarchies (poster abstract).
In the Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Bridging the Gap Between High-Level Discrete Representations and Low-Level Continuous Behaviors (RSS Workshop), Seattle, WA, June 2009.
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Konidaris, G.D. and Osentoski, S. (2009)
Value Function Approximation using the Fourier Basis (extended abstract).
In the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Reinforcement Learning (MSRL '09), Montreal, Canada, June 2009.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2009)
Skill Chaining: Skill Discovery in Continuous Domains (extended abstract).
In the Multidisciplinary Symposium on Reinforcement Learning (MSRL '09), Montreal, Canada, June 2009.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2009)
Learning Representation and Control in Markov Decision Processes: New Frontiers.
Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning (editor, Michael, Jordan), Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 403-565 (163 pages), 2009.
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Johns, J., Petrik, M., and Mahadevan, S. (to appear)
Hybrid Least-Squares Algorithms for Approximate Policy Evaluation.
Machine Learning journal.
(One of only 7 papers selected to appear in Machine Learning journal from those to be presented at European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), Bled, Slovenia, 2009.)
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2009)
Manifold Alignment without Correspondence.
Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '09), June 14-17, Pasadena, CA.
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Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2009)
Multiscale Analysis of Document Corpora based upon Diffusion Models.
Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '09), July 14-17, Pasadena, CA.
[ pdf ]
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2009)
Multiscale Dimensionality Reduction with Diffusion Wavelets.
Technical Report UM-CS-2009-030, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, June 2009.
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Osentoski, S. and Mahadevan, S. (2009)
Basis Function Construction for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.
ICML '09 Workshop on Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
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Vigorito, C.M. (2009)
Temporal-Difference Networks for Dynamical Systems with Continuous Observations and Actions.
Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '09), June 19-21, Montreal, Canada.
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Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2009)
Efficient Skill Learning Using Abstraction Selection.
In C. Boutilier (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '09), pp. 1107-1112.
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Botvinick, M.M., Niv, Y., and Barto, A.G. (2009)
Hierarchically organized behavior and its neural foundations: A reinforcement-learning perspective.
Cognition, vol. 113 (special issue on Reinforcement Learning and Higher Cognition, edited by Michael Frank and Nathaniel Daw), pages 262--280.
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Shah, A. and Barto, A.G. (2009)
Effect on movement selection of an evolving sensory representation: a multiple controller model of skill acquisition.
Brain Research, vol. 1299 (special issue on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience II, edited by Sue Becker and Nathaniel Daw), pages 55--73.
[ pdf ]

2008

Şimşek, Ö. (2008)
Behavioral building blocks for autonomous agents: description, identification, and learning.
PhD thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008.
[ pdf ]
Shah, A. (2008)
Biologically-Based Functional Mechanisms of Motor Skill Acquisition
PhD thesis, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst
[ abstract | pdf ]
Şimşek, Ö. and Barto, A.G. (2008)
Skill characterization based on betweenness
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS-08), December 8-11, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2008)
Representation Discovery using Harmonic Analysis
from the series Brachman, R., and Dietterich, T. (editors), Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Vol. 2, No. 1, Morgan and Claypool.
[ publisher's website for this book ] NOTE: this book is available, through the publisher, as both a hard copy and in pdf format. However, be warned that some figures use color, and while the pdf displays such colors, the hard copy is printed in grey-scale.
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2008)
Multiscale Analysis of Document Corpora Using Diffusion Models
University of Massachusetts Technical Report 16.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2008)
Sensorimotor Abstraction Selection for Efficient, Autonomous Robot Skill Acquisition
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-08), August 9 - 12, Monterey, CA
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. (2008)
Autonomous Robot Skill Acquisition (thesis summary)
Doctoral Symposium, 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), July 13 - 17, Chicago, Illinois
Nelson, E.L., Konidaris, G.D., and Berthier, N.E. (2008)
Using Real-Time Motion Capture to Measure Handedness in Infants
Poster at the XVIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, June, Vancouver, Canada
Konidaris, G.D. and Osentoski, S. (2008)
Value Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning using the Fourier Basis
Technical Report UM-CS-2008-19, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, June 2008
[ pdf ]
Vigorito, C.M. and Barto, A.G. (2008)
Autonomous Hierarchical Skill Acquisition in Factored MDPs
Proceedings of The Fourteenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, June 2 - 4, New Haven, CT
[ pdf ]
Vigorito, C.M. and Barto, A.G. (2008)
Hierarchical Representations of Behavior for Efficient Creative Search
AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, March 26 - 28, Palo Alto, CA
[ pdf ] [ poster ]
Mahadevan, S. (2008)
Fast Spectral Learning using Lanczos Eigenspace Projections
Proceedings from the Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), July 13 - 17, Chicago, Illinois
[ pdf ]
Wang, C. and Mahadevan, S. (2008)
Manifold Alignment using Procrustes Analysis
Proceedings from the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-08), July 5 - 9, Helsinki, Finland
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2007

Jonsson, A. and Barto, A.G. (2007)
Active Learning of Dynamic Bayesian Networks in Markov Decision Processes
Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation (SARA 2007), Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, July 18 - 21, 2007.
Also published as Miguel, I. and Tuml, W. (editors) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation, vol. 4612, pages 273-284, Springer, New York, NY, USA.
[ pdf ]
Barto, A.G. (2007)
Temporal difference learning
Scholarpedia, 2(11):1604
[ webpage ] for this article
Ghavamzadeh, M., and Mahadevan, S. (2007)
Hierarchical Average Reward Reinforcement Learning
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 8(Nov):2629--2669, 2007
[ pdf ]
Shah, A., and Barto, A.G. (2007)
Effect on Movement Selection of Evolving Sensory Representation
poster presented at the Third Annual Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (CCNC07), in conjunction with Dynamical Neuroscience XV, November 1 -- 2, San Diego, CA.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S., and Maggioni, M. (2007)
Proto-value Functions: A Laplacian Framework for Learning Representation and Control in Markov Decision Processes
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 8(Oct):2169--2231, 2007, MIT Press
[ pdf ] NOTE: this is a revised version that corrects some errors found in the original published version.
Shah, A., and Barto, A.G. (2007)
Functional Mechanisms of Motor Skill Acquisition
poster presented at the Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2007), July 7th - 12th, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Abstract published in BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8(Suppl 2):P203 (6 July 2007)
[ abstract | pdf of poster ]
Johns, J., Mahadevan, S., and Wang, C. (2007)
Compact Spectral Bases for Value Function Approximation Using Kronecker Factorization
Proceedings of the Twenty-second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2007)
New Frontiers in Representation Discovery
Tutorial given at the Twenty-second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), July 23, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[ tutorial website ]
Johns, J., Osentoski, S., and Mahadevan, S. (2007)
Representation Discovery in Planning using Harmonic Analysis
AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Approaches to Representation Change during Learning and Development, Nov. 8-11, 2007, Washington, D.C.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2007)
Adaptive Mesh Compression in 3D Computer Graphics using Multiresolution Manifold Learning
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-07), Corvallis, OR June 2007
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Johns, J., and Mahadevan, S. (2007)
Constructing Basis Functions from Directed Graphs for Value Function Approximation
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-07), Corvallis, OR June 2007
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Osentoski, S., and Mahadevan, S. (2007)
Learning State-Action Basis Functions for Hierarchical MDPs
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-07), Corvallis, OR June 2007
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Mahadevan, S., Osentoski, S., Johns, J., Ferfuson, K., and Wang, C. (2007)
Learning to Plan using Harmonic Analysis of Diffusion Models
Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-07), Providence, RI, September.
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Arroyo, I., Ferguson, K., Johns, J., Dragon, T., Meheranian, H., Fisher, D., Barto, A.G., Mahadevan, S., and Woolf, B. (2007)
Repairing Disengagement with Non-Invasive Interventions
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-07)
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Vigorito, C. (2007)
Distributed Path Planning for Mobile Robots using a Swarm of Interacting Reinforcement Learners
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-07), Honolulu, HI.
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Vigorito, C., Ganesan, D., and Barto, A.G. (2007)
Adaptive Control of Duty-Cycling in Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON-07), San Diego, CA.
[ pdf ] (Note: this recieved the best paper award)
Şimşek, Ö. and Barto, A.G. (2007)
Betweenness Centrality as a Basis for Forming Skills
University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-2007-26, 2007
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Barringer, C.W. and Barto, A.G. (2007)
Discrete Submovements Using Predictive Models
poster presented at the Neural Control of Movement Conference, March 25-30, Seville, Spain
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2007)
Learning Representations for Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning
A tutorial given at the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007.
[ pdf slides ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2007)
Building Portable Options: Skill Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007.
[ pdf ]

2006

Jonsson, A. and Barto, A.G. (2006)
Causal Graph Based Decomposition of Factored MDPs
Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol 7, pages 2259--2301, Nov., 2006.
[ pdf ]
Rohanimanesh, K. (2006)
Concurrent Decision Making in Markov Decision Processes
PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. and Maggiono, M. (2006)
Proto-Value Functions: A Laplacian Framework for Learning Representation and Control in Markov Decision Processes
University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-2006-35, 2006
[ pdf ]
Maggiono, M. and Mahadevan, S. (2006)
A Multiscale Framework For Markov Decision Processes using Diffusion Wavelets
University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-2006-36, 2006
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. and Maggiono, M. (2006)
Learning Representation And Behavior: Manifold and Spectral Methods for Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning
A tutorial given at ICML-06, Carnegie Mellon University, June 25, 2006
[ pdf slides ]
Ghavamzadeh, M., Mahadevan, S., and Makar, R. (2006)
Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, vol. 13(2), pages 197-229, September
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. and Maggioni, M. (2006)
Value Function Approximation using Diffusion Wavelets and Laplacian Eigenfunctions
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), MIT Press, 2006.
[ pdf ]
Maggioni, M. and Mahadevan, S. (2006)
Fast Direct Policy Evaluation using Multiscale Analysis of Markov Diffusion Processes
Proceedings of the Twenty Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006), Pittsburgh, PA, June 2006
[ pdf ]
Polewan, R.J., Vigorito, C.M., Nason, C.D., Block, R.A., and Moore, J.W. (2006)
A Cartesian Reflex Assessment of Face Processing
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, vol. 5(1), pages 3-23
[ pdf ] NOTE: This paper is part of the UMass Cartesian Reflex Project
Mahadevan, S., Maggioni, M., Ferguson, K., and Osentoski., S. (2006)
Learning Representation and Control In Continuous Markov Decision Processes
Proceedings of The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 16-20, 2006
[ pdf ]
Ferguson, K. and Mahadevan, S.(2006)
Proto-transfer Learning in Markov Decision Processes Using Spectral Methods
Proceedings of the ICML-06 Workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2006
[ pdf ]
Ferguson, K., Arroyo, A., Mahadevan, S., Woolf, B., and Barto, A.G. (2006)
Improving Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Using Expectation Maximization To Learn Student Skill Levels
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-06), Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26 - 30, 2006
[ pdf ]
Johns, J. and Woolf, B. (2006)
A Dynamic Mixture Model to Detect Student Motivation and Proficiency
Proceedings of The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 16-20, 2006
[ pdf | ppt slides]
Johns, J., Mahadevan, S., and Woolf, B.(2006)
Estimating Student Proficiency Using an Item Response Theory Model
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-06), Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26 - 30, 2006
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2006)
An Adaptive Robot Motivational System
Animals to Animats 9: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-06), CNR, Roma, Italy, September 25 - 29, 2006.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. (2006)
A Framework for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the ICML-06 Workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2006
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2006)
Autonomous Shaping: Knowledge Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the Twenty Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006), Pittsburgh, PA, June 2006
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2006)
Building Portable Options: Skill Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
University of Massachusetts Department of Computer Science Technical Report UM-CS-2006-17, March, 2006
[ pdf ]
Wolfe, A.P. and Barto, A.G. (2006)
Decision Tree Methods for Finding Reusable MDP Homomorphisms
Proceedings of The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA, July 16 - 20, 2006
[ pdf ]
Wolfe, A.P. and Barto, A.G. (2006)
Defining Object Types and Options Using MDP Homomorphisms
Proceedings of the ICML-06 Workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2006
[ pdf paper | pdf slides ]
Shah, A., Barto, A.G., and Fagg, A.H. (2006)
Biologically-Based Functional Mechanisms of Coarticulation
poster presented at the Neural Control of Movement Conference, May 2-7, 2006, Key Biscayne, FL
[ pdf ]
Şimşek, Ö. and Barto, A.G. (2006)
An Intrinsic Reward Mechanism for Efficient Exploration
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 06 ), Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2006
[ pdf ]
Ferguson, K. (2006)
Improving Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Using Expectation Maximization To Learn About Student Skill Levels
University of Masschusetts Department of Computer Science Technical Report UM-CS-2006-09, February, 2006
[ pdf ]

2005

Barto, A.G. and Şimşek, Ö. (2005)
Intrinsic Motivation for reinforcement learning systems.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems
[ pdf ]
Ghavamzadeh, M. (2005)
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Multi-Agent Environments
PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]
Jonsson, A. (2005)
A Causal Approach to Hierarchical Decomposition in Reinforcement Learning
PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]
Konidaris, G.D. and Barto, A.G. (2005)
Autoshaping: Learning to Predict Reward for Novel States
University of Masschusetts Department of Computer Science Technical Report UM-CS-2005-58, September, 2005
[ ps.gz ]
Stout, A., Konidaris, G.D., and Barto, A.G. (2005)
Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning: A Promising Framework For Developmental Robot Learning
Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Developmental Robotics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 21-23, 2005.
[ pdf ]
Jonsson, A. and Barto, A.G. (2005)
A Causal Approach to Hierarchical Decomposition of Factored MDPs
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning ICML 05, Bonn, Germany, August 7-13
[ pdf | ps ]
Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Representation Policy Iteration: A Unified Framework for Learning Representation and Behavior
Invited talk given at National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI05, Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13, 2005
[ pdf slides ]
Rohanimanesh, K. and Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Coarticulation: An Approach for Generating Concurrent Plans in Markov Decision Processes
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning ICML 05, Bonn, Germany, August 7-13
[ pdf | ps ]
Mahadevan, S. and Maggioni, M.(2005)
Value Function Approximation using Diffusion Wavelets and Laplacian Eigenfunctions
University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-2005-38, 2005
[ pdf ]
Maggioni, M. and Mahadevan, S.(2005)
Fast Direct Policy Evaluation Using Multiscale Markov Diffusion Processes
University of Massachusetts, Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-2005-39, 2005
[ pdf ]
Theocharous, G., Mahadevan, S., and Kaelbling, L (2005)
Spatial and Temporal Abstraction in POMDPs for Robot Navigation
submitted (soon to appear as MIT CSAIL TR)
[ ps.gz ]
Johns, J. and Mahadevan, S. (2005)
A Variational Learning Algorithm for the Abstract Hidden Markov Model
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI05, Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13, 2005
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Samuel Meets Amarel: Automating Value Function Approximation using Global State Space Analysis
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI05, Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13, 2005
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Representation Policy Iteration
Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence UAI05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 26-29, 2005
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Proto-Value Functions: Developmental Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning ICML05, Bonn, Germany, August 7-13, 2005
[ pdf ]
Manfredi, V. and Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning using Graphical Models
ICML Workshop on Rich Representation for Reinforcement Learning, Bonn, August 7th, 2005.
[ pdf ]
Manfredi, V. and Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Dynamic Abstraction Networks
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Technical Report TR 2005-33, 2005
[ ps ]
Manfredi, V. and Mahadevan, S. (2005)
Kalman Filters for Prediction and Tracking in an Adaptive Sensor Network
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Technical Report 2005-7, 2005
[ ps ]
Jonsson, A., Johns, J., Mehranian, H., Arroyo, I., Woolf, B., Barto, A.G., Fisher, D., and Mahadevan, S.(2005)
Evaluating the Feasibility of Learning Student Models from Data
AAAI Workshop on Educational Data Mining, Pittsburgh, PA, July 9, 2005
[ ps ]
Şimşek, Ö., Wolfe, A.P., and Barto, A.G. (2005)
Identifying useful subgoals in reinforcement learning by local graph partitioning.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning ICML 05, Bonn, Germany, August 7-13
[ pdf | bibtex ]
Berthier, N. E., Rosenstein, M. T., and Barto, A. G. (2005)
Approximate Optimal Control as a Model for Motor Learning
Psychological Review vol. 112, pages 329 - 346

2004

Ghavamzadeh, M. and Mahadevan, S. (2004)
Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Technical Report UM-CS-2004-02, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
[ ps | pdf ]
Singh, S., Barto, A.G., and Chentanez, N. (2004)
Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning
18th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, December 2004
[ pdf ]
Barto, A.G., Singh, S., and Chentanez, N. (2004)
Intrinsically Motivated Learning of Hierarchical Collections of Skills
International Conference on Developmental Learning (ICDL), LaJolla, CA, USA
[ pdf ]
Şimşek, Ö., Wolfe, A.P., and Barto, A.G. (2004)
Local Graph Partitioning as a Basis for Generating Temporally-Extended Actions in Reinforcement Learning
In Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Learning and Planning in Markov Processes - Advances and Challenges 2004.
[ ps | pdf | bibtex ]
Osentoski, S., Manfredi, V., Mahadevan, S. (2004)
Learning Hierarchical Models of Activity
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS 2004)
[ pdf ]
Si. J., Barto, A. G., Powell, W. B., Wunch D., editors. (2004)
Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming
Wiley-IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ.
[ publishers website for this book ]
Barto, A.G. and Dietterich, T.G. (2004)
Reinforcement Learning and Its Relationship to Supervised Learning
In Si, J., Barto, A.G., Powell, W.B., and Wunsch, D., editors, Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming, Chapter 2, pages 47 - 64. Wiley-IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ.
[ pdf ]
Mahadevan, S., Ghavamzadeh, M., Rohanimanesh, K., and Theocharous G. (2004)
Hierarchical Approaches to Concurrency, Multiagency, and Partial Observability
In Si, J., Barto, A.G., Powell, W.B., and Wunsch, D., editors, Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming, Chapter 11, pages 285 - 310. Wiley-IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ.
Rosenstein, M.T. and Barto, A.G.(2004)
Supervised Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning
In Si, J., Barto, A.G., Powell, W.B., and Wunsch, D., editors, Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming, Chapter 14, pages 359 - 380. Wiley-IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ.
[ pdf ]
Rosenstein, M.T. and Barto, A.G. (2004)
Reinforcement learning with supervision by a stable controller
Proceedings of the 2004 American Control Conference, pages 4517-4522
NOTE: for an expanded version of this work, see the book chaper just above (Supervised Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning).
Rohanimanesh, K., Platt, R., Mahadevan, S., and Grupen, R (2004)
Coarticulation in Markov Decision Processes
18th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, December 2004
[ ps ]
Rohanimanesh, K., Platt, R., Mahadevan, S., and Grupen, R (2004)
A Framework for Coarticulation in Markov Decision Processes
Technical Report 04-33, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
[ ps | pdf ]
Şimşek, Ö. and Barto, A.G. (2004)
Using Relative Novelty to Identify Useful Temporal Abstractions in Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004).
[ ps | pdf | bibtex]
Ghavamzadeh, M. and Mahadevan, S. (2004)
Learning to Act and Communicate in Cooperative Multiagent Systems using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2004).
[ pdf ]
Saria, S. and Mahadevan, S. (2004)
Probabilistic Plan Recognition in Multiagent Systems
International Conference on AI and Planning Systems (ICAPS 2004).
[ pdf ]
Shah, A., Fagg, A. H., and Barto, A. G. (2004)
Cortical Involvement in the Recruitment of Wrist Muscles
Journal of Neurophysiology vol. 91, pages 2445 - 2456
[ pdf ]
Ravindran, B. and Barto, A.G. (2004)
Approximate Homomorphisms: A Framework for Non-exact Minimization in Markov Decision Processes
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS 04), Hyderabad, India, December 19--22
[ pdf ]
Ravindran, B. (2004)
An Algebraic Approach to Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ pdf ]

2003

Ghavamzadeh, M., Mahadevan, S., and Makar, R. (2003)
Extending Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning to Continuous-Time, Average-Reward, and Multi-Agent Models
Technical Report UM-CS-2003-23, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
[ ps | pdf ]
Ghavamzadeh, M. and Mahadevan, S. (2003)
Hierarchical Average Reward Reinforcement Learning
Technical Report UM-CS-2003-19, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
[ ps | pdf ]
Barto, A. G. and Mahadevan, S. (2003)
Recent Advances in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems vol. 13(4), pages 341 - 379
[ pdf ]
Rosenstein, M.T. (2003)
Learning To Exploit Dynamics For Robot Motor Coordination
PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ abstract | pdf ]
Ghavamzadeh, M., Mahadevan, S. (2003)
Hierarchical Policy Gradient Algorithms
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003).
[ pdf ]
Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2003)
Relativized Options: Choosing the Right Transformation
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003)
[ pdf ]
Ravindran, B. and Barto, A.G. (2003)
SMDP Homomorphisms: An Algebraic Approach to Abstraction in Semi Markov Decision Processes
The Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03).
[ pdf ]
Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2003)
An Algebraic Approach to Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
In the Proceedings of the Twelfth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, pp. 109-114, Yale University.
[ pdf ]

2002

Barto, A. G. (2002)
Reinforcement learning
In Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second Edition M.A. Arbib (Ed.), pages 963-968. Cambridge: MIT Press..
Barto, A. G. (2002)
Reinforcement learning in motor control
In Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second Edition M.A. Arbib (Ed.), pages 968-972. Cambridge: MIT Press..
McGovern, Amy , Moss, Eliot, and Andrew G. Barto (2002)
Building a Basic Block Instruction Scheduler using Reinforcement Learning and Rollouts
Machine Learning, Special Issue on Reinforcement Learning. Volume 49, Numbers 2/3, Pages 141-160.
[ ps (200K) | gzipped ps (60K) | pdf (160K)]
Fagg, A. H., Shah, A., and Barto, A. G. (2002)
A Computational Model of Muscle Recruitment for Wrist Movements
Journal of Neurophysiology, 88:3348 - 3358
[ pdf ]
Perkins, T.J. (2002)
Lyapunov Methods for Safe Intelligent Agent Design
PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ ps | pdf ]
Perkins, T.J. and Barto, A.G. (2002)
Lyapunov Design for Safe Reinforcement Learning
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), vol. 3, pg 803--832, 2002.
[ pdf ]
Rohanimanesh, K., and Mahadevan, S. (2002)
Learning to Take Concurrent Actions
16th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, Canada, December 2002
[ ps ]
McGovern, Amy (2002)
Autonomous Discovery of Temporal Abstractions from Interaction with an Environment
PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[ ps | gzipped ps | pdf ]
Pickett, M., and Barto, A. G (2002)
PolicyBlocks: An Algortithm for Creating Useful Macro-Actions in Reinforcement Learning
In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference of Machine Learning
[ ps ]
Perkins, T.J., and Pendrith, M.D. (2002)
On the Existence of Fixed Points for Q-Learning and Sarsa in Partially Observable Domains
In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference of Machine Learning, pp. 490--497.
[ ps | pdf ]
Perkins, T.J. (2002)
Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs based on Action Values and Stochastic Optimization
In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 199--204.
[ ps | pdf ]
Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2002)
Model Minimization in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
In the Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA 2002), pp.196-211, LNCS, Springer Verlag.
[ gzipped pdf ]
Bernstein, D.S., Perkins, T.J., Zilberstein, S., and Finkelstein, L. (2002)
Scheduling Contract Algorithms on Multiple Processors
In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 702--706.
[ ps | pdf ]
Shah, A., Fagg, A. H., and Barto, A. G. (2002)
Cortical Involvement in the Recruitment of Wrist Muscles
poster presented at the Neural Control of Movement Conference, April 14-21, 2002, Naples, FL
[ abstract | pdf ]
Kositsky, M. and Barto, A.G. (2002)
The emergence of movement units through learning with noisy efferent signals and delayed sensory feedback
Neurocomputing, 44-46, pp. 889-895, 2002.
[ pdf ]
Kositsky, M. and Barto, A.G. (2002)
Emergence of Multiple Movement Units in the Presence of Noise and Feedback Delay
in Dietterich, T.G., Becker, S., and Ghahramani, Z. (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14 (NIPS) 2002.
[ pdf ]
Rosenstein, M.T. and Grupen, R.A. (2002)
Velocity-dependentdynamic manipulability
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol 3, 2424-2429. XGGG
[ gzipped ps | pdf ]
Ghavamzadeh, M., Mahadevan, S. (2002)
Hierarchically Optimal Average Reward Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002).
[ ps ]
Ghavamzadeh, M., Mahadevan, S. (2002)
A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm by Dynamically Merging Markov Decision Processes
Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2002)
[ ps ]
Arbib, M. A., Fagg, A. H., and Grafton, S. T. (2002)
Synthetic PET Imaging for Grasping: From Primate Neurophysiology to Human Behavior
in Explorative analysis and data modelling in functional neuroimaging,(F. Sommer and A. Wichert, Eds.), Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, pp. 231-250.
[ pdf ]
Houk, J. C., Fagg, A. H., Barto, A. G. (2002)
Fractional Power Damping Model of Joint Motion
in Progress in Motor Control: Structure-Function Relations in Voluntary Movements,(M. Latash, Ed.), vol II, pages 147-178
[ ps ]
Fagg, A. H. and Weitzenfeld, A. (2002)
A Model of Primate Visual-Motor Conditional Learning
in NSL - Neural Simulation Language: Systems and Applications ,(A. Weitzenfeld, M. A. Arbib, and A. Alexander, Eds.), MIT Press
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2001

Perkins, T.J., and Barto, A.G. (2001)
Lyapunov-Constrained Action Sets for Reinforcement Learning
In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 409--416.
[ ps ]
Perkins, T.J., and Barto, A.G. (2001)
Heuristic Search in Infinite State Spaces Guided by Lyapunov Analysis
In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 242--247.
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Rosenstein, M.T. and Barto, A.G. (2001)
Robot weightlifting by direct policy search
In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, 839-844.
[ gzipped ps | pdf ]
Rosenstein, M.T. and Barto, A.G. (2001)
A robotic weightlifter that learns to exploit dynamics
In Studies in Perception and Action VI: Eleventh International Conference on Perception and Action , 25-28.
Rosenstein, M.T. and Barto, A.G. (2001)
From elementary movements to coordination for a robotic weightlifter
In Abstracts of the Third International Symposium on Progress in Motor Control: From Basic Science to Applications, p. 40.
Rohanimanesh, K. and Mahadevan, S. (2001)
Decision-Theoretic Planning with Concurrent Temporally Extended Actions
17th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '01), August 3-5, 2001, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
[ ps ]
Ravindran, B. and Barto, A. G. (2001)
Symmetries and Model Minimization of Markov Decision Processes
Computer Science Technical Report 01-43, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
[ gzipped ps ]
McGovern, Amy , and Andrew G. Barto (2001)
Automatic Discovery of Subgoals in Reinforcement Learning using Diverse Density
In 2001 International Conference on Machine Learning
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Kositsky, M. and Barto, A. G. (2001)
Nonlinear Damping Dynamics and the Variability of Rapid Aimed Movements
Technical Report 01-15, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
[ gzipped ps | gzipped pdf ]
Kositsky, M. and Barto, A. G. (2001)
Nonlinear Damping Dynamics and the Variability of Rapid Aimed Movements
Poster presented at the 2001 Conference on Neural Control of Movement, Seville, Spain.
one-page poster: [ gzipped ps | gzipped pdf ]
Kositsky, M. and Barto, A. G. (2001)
The emergence of multiple movement through learning with noisy efferent signals and delayed sensory feedback
Tenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, San Francisco and Pacific Grove, California, 2001.
[ pdf ]
Kositsky, M. and Barto, A. G. (2001)
Reinforcement learning model for noisy environment and delayed feedback: natural emergence of movement units
Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001.
Shah, A., Fagg, A. H., and Barto, A. G. (2001)
A Computational Model of Muscle Recruitment for Wrist Movements
poster presented at Neural Control of Movement Conference, March 25-30, 2001, Seville, Spain
[ abstract | pdf ]
Jonsson, A. and Barto, A. G. (2001)
Automated State Abstraction for Options using the U-Tree Algorithm
In Advances in Neural Processing Information Systems 13, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[ gzipped ps ]
Schlesinger, M., and Parisi, D. (2001)
The agent-based approach: A new direction for computational models of development
Developmental Review, 21, pp 121--146.
[ gzipped ps ]
Engelbrecht, S.E. (2001)
Minimum Principles in Motor Control
Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 45:497-542.
[ pdf | ps ]
Ghavamzadeh, M., Mahadevan, S. (2001)
Continuous-Time Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2001)
[ ps ]
Makar, R., Mahadevan, S., Ghavamzadeh, M. (2001)
Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2001.
[ ps ]
Davis, J.A., Fagg, A.H., and Levine, B.N. (2001)
Wearable Computers as Packet Transport Mechanisms in Highly-Partitioned Ad-Hoc Networks
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2001, pp. 141-148.
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2000

J. Randløv, A.G. Barto, and M.T. Rosenstein (2000)
Combining reinforcement learning with a local control algorithm
In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 775-782.
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Precup, D. (2000)
Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
[ gzipped ps ]
R. Moll, T. Perkins, and A. Barto (2000)
Machine Learning for Subproblem Selection
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2000), P. Langley (Ed.),Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco,CA, pp. 615-622.
[ ps ]
Precup, D., Sutton, R. S. and Singh, S. (2000)
Eligibility Traces for Off-Policy Policy Evaluation
In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2000), pp. 759--766. Morgan Kaufman.
[ ps ]
Schlesinger, M., Parisi, D., and Langer, J. (2000)
Learning to reach by constraining the movement search space
Developmental Science, 3, 67-80.
[ gzipped ps ]
Berthier, N.E., Barto, A.G., and Schlesinger, M. (2000)
Learning and dynamics
Proceedings of the NSF DARPA Conference on Learning and Development
[ pdf ]
Fagg, A.H. (2000)
A Model of Muscle Geometry for a Two Degree-Of-Freedom Planar Arm
Technical Report #00-03, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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1999

R. Moll, A. Barto, T. Perkins, and R. Sutton (1999)
Learning Instance-Independent Value Functions to Enhance Local Search
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11 (NIPS11), M. S. Kearns, S. A. Solla, and D. A. Cohn (Eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, pp. 1017-1023.
[ ps ]
Sutton, R. S., Precup, D., and Singh, S. (1999)
Between MDPs and semi-MDPs: A Framework for Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
In Artificial Intelligence, vol. 112, pp.181-211.
[ pdf | gzipped ps ]
An earlier version appeared as Technical Report UM-CS-1998-74, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4610.
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Schlesinger, M., and Langer, J. (1999)
Infants' developing expectations of possible and impossible tool-use events between ages 8 and 12 months
Developmental Science, 2, 195-205.
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Schlesinger, M., and Barto, A. (1999)
Optimal control methods for simulating the perception of causality in young infants
Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 625-630. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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McGovern, Amy, Moss, Eliot, and Barto, Andrew G. (1999)
Basic-block Instruction Scheduling Using Reinforcement Learning and Rollouts
Proceedings of the 1999 IJCAI workshop on learning and optimization.
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Sutton, R. S., Singh, S., Precup, D., and Ravindran, B. (1999)
Improved Switching among Temporally Abstract Actions
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11 (Proceedings of NIPS'98), pp.1066-1072. MIT Press.
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McGovern, Amy, and Moss, Eliot (1999)
Scheduling Straight-Line Code Using Reinforcement Learning and Rollouts
Proceedings of the 11th Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS '98), pages 903-909.
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Barto, A. G, Fagg, A. H., Sitkoff, N., and Houk, J. C. (1999)
A Cerebellar Model of Timing and Prediction in the Control of Reaching
Neural Computation, vol. 11, pp. 565-594.
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1998

Sutton, Richard S., and Barto, Andrew G. (1998)
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
MIT Press.
[ HTML Version | MIT Press Site for this book ]
McGovern, Amy (1998)
acQuire-macros: An Algorithm for Automatically Learning Macro-actions
In the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS '98) workshop on Abstraction and Hierarchy in Reinforcement Learning
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Crites, R. H., and Barto, A. G (1998)
Elevator Group Control Using Multiple Reinforcement Learning Agents
Machine Learning 33: 235-262.
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McGovern, Amy, and Sutton, Richard S. (1998)
Macro-Actions in Reinforcement Learning: An Empirical Analysis
Master's thesis and University of Massachusetts, Amherst Technical Report 98-70
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Fagg, A. H., Zelevinsky, L., Barto, A. G., and Houk, J. C. (1998)
A Pulse-Step Model of Control for Arm Reaching Movements
Proceedings of the Spring Meeting on the Neural Control of Movement.
Fagg, A. H., Barto, A. G., and Houk, J. C.(1998)
Learning to Reach Via Corrective Movements
Proceedings of the Tenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, New Haven, CT.
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McGovern, Amy, Precup, Doina, Ravindran, B., Singh, Satinder, and Sutton, Richard S. (1998)
Hierarchical Optimal Control of MDPs
Proceedings of the Tenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, pp.186-191.
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Sutton, R. S., Precup, D., and Singh, S. (1998)
Intra-Option Learning about Temporally Abstract Actions
In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'98), pp.556-564. Morgan Kaufman.
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Precup, D., Sutton, R. S., and Singh, S. (1998)
Theoretical Results on Reinforcement Learning with Temporally Abstract Behaviors
In Machine Learning: ECML-98. 10th European Conference on Machine Learning, Chemnitz, Germany, April 1998. Proceedings, pp. 382-393. Springer Verlag.
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Precup, D., and Sutton, R. S. (1998)
Multi-Time Models for Temporally Abstract Planning
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10 (Proceedings of NIPS'97), pp. 1050-1056. MIT Press.
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Fagg, A. H., Lotspeich, D. L., Hoff, J. Bekey, G. A. (1998)
Rapid Reinforcement Learning for Reactive Control Policy Design for Autonomous Robots
in Artificial Life in Robotics , (T. Shibata and T. Fukuda, Eds.)
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1997

McGovern, Amy, Sutton, Richard S., and Fagg, Andrew H. (1997)
Roles of Macro-Actions in Accelerating Reinforcement Learning
1997 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Precup, D., Sutton, R. S., and Singh, S. (1997)
Planning with Closed-Loop Macro Actions
In Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium '97 on Model-directed Autonomous Systems, pp. 70-76.
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Precup, D., and Sutton, R. S. (1997)
Multi-Time Models for Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the ICML'97 Workshop on Modelling in Reinforcement Learning.
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Barto, A.G. and Sutton, R.S. (1997)
Reinforcement Learning in Artificial Intelligence
in Neural-Network Models of Cognition, Volume 121: Biobehavioral Foundations (Advances in Psychology) (eds. Donahoe, J.W. and Dorsel, V.P.), Elsevier, North-Holland, The Netherlands.
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Precup, D., and Sutton, R. S. (1997)
Exponentiated Gradient Methods for Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML'97, Morgan Kaufmann, pp.272-277.
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R. E. Kettner, S. Mahamud, H. -C. Leung, N. Sitkoff, Houk, J. C., B. W. Peterson, and Barto, A. G. (1997)
Prediction of Complex Two-Dimensional Trajectories by the Eye and by a Cerebellar Model of Smooth Eye Movements
Journal of Neurophysiology, 77:2115-2130
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Fagg, A. H., Sitkoff, N., Barto, A. G., and Houk, J. C. (1997)
Cerebellar Learning for Control of a Two-Link Arm in Muscle Space
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, pp. 2638-2644.
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Fagg, A. H., Zelevinsky, L., Barto, A. G., and Houk, J. C. (1997)
Using Crude Movements to Learn Accurate Motor Programs for Reaching
Presented at the NIPS workshop: Can Artificial Cerebellar Models Compete to Control Robots? Dec. 5, Breckenridge, CO.
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Fagg, A. H., Sitkoff, N., Barto, A. G., and Houk, J. C. (1997)
A Computational Model of Cerebellar Learning for Limb Control
Proceedings of the Spring 1997 Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement.
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Fagg, A. H., Sitkoff, N., Barto, A. G., and Houk, J. C. (1997)
A Model of Cerebellar Learning for Control of Arm Movements Using Muscle Synergies
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, July 10-11, pp. 6-12.
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A. H. Fagg, N. Sitkoff, A. G. Barto, and Houk, J. C. (1997)
Cerebellar Learning for Control of a Two-Link Arm in Muscle Space
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, pages 2638-2644.
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1996

Bradke, S.J. and Barto, A.G. (1996)
Linear Least-Squares Algorithms for Temporal DIfference Learning
Machine Learning 22(1-3):33--57, 1996
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Singh, S.P. and Sutton, R.S. (1996)
Reinforcement Learning with Replacing Eligibility Traces
Machine Learning 22(1-3):123--158, 1996
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Precup, D., and Sutton, R. S. (1996)
Empirical Comparison of Gradient Descent and Exponentiated Gradient Descent in Supervised and Reinforcement Learning
Technical Report UM-CS-1996-070, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.
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Houk, J.C., Buckingham, J.T., and Barto, A.G. (1996)
Models of the Cerebellum and Motor Learning
Behavioral and Brain Sciences vol. 19, pages 368-383.
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Hansen, E.A., Barto, A.G., and Zilberstein, S. (1996)
Reinforcement Learning for Mixed Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Control
Proceedings from the Ninth Annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS), Denver, Colorado, USA
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1995

A. G. Barto, J. T. Buckingham, and Houk, J. C. (1995)
A Predictive Switiching Model of Cerebellar Movement Control
Neural Information Processing Systems 8, MIT Press, 1995, pp. 138-144.
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R. H. Crites, and A. G. Barto (1995)
Improving Elevator Performance Using Reinforcement Learning
Neural Information Processing Systems 8, MIT Press, 1995, pp. 1017-1023.
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Houk, J. C., J. L. Adams, and Barto, A. G. (1995)
A model of how the basal ganglia generates and uses neural signals that predict reinforcement
In Models of Information Processing in the Basal Ganglia, J. C. Houk, J. Davis, and D. Beiser (Eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 249-270.
A. G. Barto (1995)
Adaptive critics and the basal ganglia
In Models of Information Processing in the Basal Ganglia, J. C. Houk, J. Davis, and D. Beiser (Eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 215-232.
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J. T. Buckingham, Barto, A. G., and Houk, J. C. (1995)
Adaptive Predictive Control with a Cerebellar Model
In Proceedings of the 1995 World Congress on Neural Networks, Volume 1, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc: Mahwah, NJ, 1995, pp. 373-380
M. Duff (1995)
Q-Learning for bandit problems
In A. Prieditis and S. Russell, editors, Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Machine Learning (ML95), Morgan Kaufmann: Tahoe City, CA, 1995, pp. 209-217.
Barto, A. G. (1995)
Reinforcement learning and dynamic programming
Presented at IFAC'95, Conference on Man-Machine Systems, Cambridge, MA, June 1995.
A. G. Barto, S. J. Bradtke, and S. P. Singh (1995)
Learning to act using real-time dynamic programming
Artificial Intelligence, Special Volume on Computational Research on Interaction and Agency,
72(1): 81-138, 1995.
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Crites RH, and Barto, A. G. (1995)
An Actor/Critic Algorithm that is Equivalent to Q-Learning
NIPS 7.
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Bradtke, Steven J. and Duff, Michael O. (1995)
Reinforcement Learning Methods for Continuous-Time Markov Decision Problems
NIPS 7.

1994

Singh, S. P. (1994)
Learning to Solve Markovian Decision Processes
Ph.D Thesis
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Singh, S. P., Jaakkola, T., and Jordan, M. (1994)
Reinforcement Learning With Soft State Aggregation
NIPS-7
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Singh, S. P. (1994)
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Average-Payoff Markovian Decision Processes
AAAI-94
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Singh, S. P., Jaakkola, T., and Jordan, M. (1994)
Learning Without State-Estimation in Partially Observable Markovian Decision Processes
ML-94
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Sutton, R. S., and Singh, S. P. (1994)
On Step-Size and Bias in Temporal-Difference Learning
Eighth Yale Workshop
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Jaakkola, T., Jordan, M., and Singh, S. P. (1994)
On the Convergence of Stochastic Iterative Dynamic Programming Algorithms
Neural Computation
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J. T. Buckingham, J. C. Houk, and A. G. Barto (1994)
Controlling a nonlinear spring-mass system with a cerebellar model
8th Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, Yale University, June 1994. pp. 1-6.
S. J. Bradtke, A. G. Barto, and B. E. Ydstie (1994)
A reinforcement learning method for direct adaptive linear quadratic control
8th Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, Yale University, June 1994. pp. 85-96.
V. Gullapalli and A. Barto (1994)
Convergence of indirect adaptive asynchronous value iteration algorithms
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6, J.D. Cowan, G. Tesauro and J. Alspector (Eds.), San Francisco: Morgan Kauffmann, 1994. pp. 695-702.
A. Barto and M. Duff (1994)
Monte Carlo matrix inversion and reinforcement learning
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6, J.D. Cowan, G. Tesauro and J. Alspector (Eds.), San Francisco: Morgan Kauffmann, 1994. pp. 687-694.
S. P. Singh, A. G. Barto, R. Grupen, and C. Connolly (1994)
Robust reinforcement learning in motion planning
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6, J.D. Cowan, G. Tesauro and J. Alspector (Eds.), San Francisco: Morgan Kauffmann, 1994. pp. 655-662.
V. Gullapalli, A. G. Barto, and R. A. Grupen (1994)
Learning admittance mappings for force-guided assembly
Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1994, pp. 2633-2638.
V. Gullapalli, J. A. Franklin, and H. Benbrahim (1994)
Acquiring robot skills via reinforcement learning
IEEE Control Systems Special Issue on Robotics: Capturing Natural Motion, 4(1): 13-24, Feb. 1994.
Grupen RA, Coelho, J. A., Connolly, C. I., Gullapalli, V., Huber, M., and Souccar, K. (1994)
Toward Physical Interaction and Manipulation: Screwing in a Light Bulb
AAAI 1994 Spring Symposium on Physical Interaction and Manipulation.
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T. W. Sandholm and R. H. Crites (1994)
Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
Submitted to Biosystems Journal, November 1994.
S. J. Bradtke and A. G. Barto (1994)
New Algorithms for Temporal Difference Learning
Machine Learning, 108, Special Issue on Reinforcement Learning.
Singh, S. P., and Yee, R. C. (1994)
An Upper Bound on the Loss from Approximate Optimal-Value Functions
Machine Learning
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Barto, A. G. (1994)
Reinforcement Learning Control
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4:888-893, 1994.
V. Gullapalli (1994)
Skillful Control Under Uncertainty via Direct Reinforcement Learning
(Submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems.)
N. Berthier, R. Clifton, V. Gullapalli, D. McCall, and D. Rubin (1994)
Visual information and object size in the control of reaching
(Submitted.)
V. Gullapalli (1994)
Direct associative reinforcement learning methods for dynamic systems control
(Submitted to Neurocomputing.)
S. J. Bradtke (1994)
Incremental Dynamic Programming for On-Line Adaptive Optimal Control
(Ph.D. Thesis) CMPSCI Technical Report 94-62, University of Massachusetts, August 1994.
Barto, A. G. (1994)
Learning as hillclimbing in weight space
In Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M.A. Arbib (Ed.), Cambridge: MIT Press..
Barto, A. G. (1994)
Reinforcement learning in motor control
In Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M.A. Arbib (Ed.), Cambridge: MIT Press..
Barto, A. G.(1994)
Reinforcement Learning
In Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M.A. Arbib (Ed.), Cambridge: MIT Press..
M. Duff (1994)
Solving Bellman's Equation by the method of continuity
Proceedings of the 1994 American Control Conference, Baltimore, June 1994.
S. J. Bradtke, B. E. Ydstie, and A. G. Barto (1994)
Adaptive linear quadratic control using policy iteration
CMPSCI Technical Report 94-49, University of Massachusetts, June 1994. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, April 1994.
S. Bradtke and M. Duff (1994)
Reinforcement learning methods for continuous-time Markov decision problems
7th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 7), November 1994.