Conference and journal papers
2026
The Unfairness of Multifactorial Bias in Recommendation Journal Article
In: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2026.
Gradient-Based Program Synthesis with Neurally Interpreted Languages Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026.
2025
Making Universal Policies Universal Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 2553–2555, 2025.
Data Augmentation for Instruction Following Policies via Trajectory Segmentation Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 17214-17222, 2025.
2024
Mitigating Exposure Bias in Online Learning to Rank Recommendation: A Novel Reward Model for Cascading Bandits Proceedings Article
In: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2024.
Accelerated Tsetlin Machine Inference Through Incremental Model Re-evaluation Proceedings Article
In: International Symposium on Tsetlin Machines, 2024.
Going Beyond Popularity and Positivity Bias: Correcting for Multifactorial Bias in Recommender Systems Proceedings Article
In: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024.
Planning with a Learned Policy Basis to Optimally Solve Complex Tasks Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2024.
Uncoupled Learning of Differential Stackelberg Equilibria with Commitments Proceedings Article
In: Artificial Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2024.
2023
Learning Hierarchical Planning-Based Policies from Offline Data Proceedings Article
In: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track (ECML PKDD), 2023.
Learning Objective-Specific Active Learning Strategies with Attentive Neural Processes Proceedings Article
In: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track (ECML PKDD), 2023.
Bridge the Inference Gaps of Neural Processes via Expectation Maximization Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023.
Reusable Options through Gradient-based Meta Learning Journal Article
In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research, vol. 03/2023, 2023.
2022
Learning Expressive Meta-Representations with Mixture of Expert Neural Processes Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.
Neural Topological Ordering for Computation Graphs Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.
Value Refinement Network (VRN) Proceedings Article
In: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
Leveraging class abstraction for commonsense reinforcement learning via residual policy gradient methods Proceedings Article
In: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
Logic-based AI for Interpretable Board Game Winner Prediction with Tsetlin Machine Proceedings Article
In: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2022.
Model-based Meta Reinforcement Learning using Graph Structured Surrogate Models and Amortized Policy Search Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022.
Deep Policy Dynamic Programming for Vehicle Routing Problems Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research, 2022.
Multi-Agent MDP Homomorphic Networks Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022.
Fast and Data Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Pixels via Non-Parametric Value Approximation Proceedings Article
In: AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022.
2021
Optimizing Adaptive Notifications in Mobile Health Interventions Systems: Reinforcement Learning from a Data-driven Behavioral Simulator Journal Article
In: Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 45, no. 102, 2021.
Deep Coherent Exploration For Continuous Control Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning, 2021.
Hierarchies of Planning and Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021.
Reinforcement Learning to Send Reminders at Right Moments in Smartphone Exercise Application: A Feasibility Study Journal Article
In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Special Issue, 2021.
2020
MDP Homomorphic Networks: Group Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020.
Experimental design for MRI by greedy policy search Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020.
Keeping Dataset Biases out of the Simulation: A Debiased Simulator for Reinforcement Learning based Recommender Systems Proceedings Article
In: The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2020.
Social Navigation with Human Empowerment Driven Reinforcement Learning Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 2020.
In: Computer, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 18–28, 2020.
Doubly Stochastic Variational Inference for Neural Processes with Hierarchical Latent Variables Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020.
An Autonomous Free Airspace En-route Controller using Deep Reinforcement Learning Techniques Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, 2020.
A Performance-Based Start State Curriculum Framework for Reinforcement Learning Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2020.
Estimating Gradients for Discrete Random Variables by Sampling without Replacement Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Learning Representations, 2020.
Ancestral Gumbel-Top-k Sampling for Sampling without Replacement Journal Article
In: Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 21, no. 47, pp. 1–36, 2020.
2019
Deep Generative Modeling of LiDAR Data Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019.
Stochastic Activation Actor Critic Methods Proceedings Article
In: European Conference on Machine Learning, 2019.
Stochastic Beams and Where To Find Them: The Gumbel-Top-k Trick for Sampling Sequences Without Replacement Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 3499–3508, 2019.
Uncertainty aware Imitation Learning on Multiple Tasks using Bayesian Neural Networks Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019.
Attention! Learn to solve routing problems! Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019.
2018
Policy Search on Aggregated State Space for Active Sampling Proceedings Article
In: International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2018.
BanditSum: Extractive Summarization as a Contextual Bandit Proceedings Article
In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp. 3739–3748, 2018.
Reinforcement Learning with Non-uniform State Representations for Adaptive Search Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2018.
Addressing function approximation error in actor-critic methods Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 1587–1596, 2018.
An Inference-Based Policy Gradient Method for Learning Options Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 4703-4712, 2018.
Eager and Memory-Based Non-Parametric Stochastic Search Methods for Learning Control Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018.
2017
Non-parametric Policy Search with Limited Information Loss Journal Article
In: Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 18, no. 73, pp. 1-46, 2017.
Generalized Exploration in Policy Search Journal Article
In: Machine Learning - Special issue ECML PKDD, vol. 106, no. 9–10, pp. 1705–1724, 2017, ISSN: 1573-0565.
Policy Search with High-Dimensional Context Variables Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 2632–2638, 2017.
2016
Probabilistic Inference for Determining Options in Reinforcement Learning Journal Article
In: Machine Learning - Special issue ECML PKDD, vol. 104, no. 2–3, pp. 337–357, 2016.
Stable Reinforcement Learning with Auto-Encoders for Tactile and Visual Data Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3928–3934, 2016.
Active Tactile Object Exploration with Gaussian Processes Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 4925–4930, 2016.
2015
Learning of Non-Parametric Control Policies with High-Dimensional State Features Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp. 1004–1012, 2015.
Learning Robot In-Hand Manipulation with Tactile Features Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), 2015.
Stabilizing Novel Objects by Learning to Predict Tactile Slip Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5065–5072, 2015.
Towards Learning Hierarchical Skills for Multi-Phase Manipulation Tasks Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.
2014
Probabilistic Segmentation and Targeted Exploration of Objects in Cluttered Environments Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRo), vol. 5, pp. 1198-1209, 2014.
Learning to Predict Phases of Manipulation Tasks as Hidden States Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
Policy Search For Learning Robot Control Using Sparse Data Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
2013
Probabilistic Interactive Segmentation for Anthropomorphic Robots in Cluttered Environments Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), 2013.
2012
Maximally Informative Interaction Learning for Scene Exploration Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Systems (IROS), 2012.
2011
Adaptive Visual Face Tracking for an Autonomous Robot Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Belgian-Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference (BNAIC 11), 2011.
Pre-prints and non-archival
2026
Correcting Within-Group Self-Selection Bias in Prioritized Replay Conference
European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, 2026.
A Goal-Set Characterization of Task Composition in the Boolean Task Algebra Conference
European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning, 2026.
Toward Iterative Safe Policy Improvement Conference
Safe AI workshop at UAI, 2026.
PhD thesis
2016
Machine Learning through Exploration for Perception-Driven Robotics PhD Thesis
2016.