Mina Huh, a computer science Ph.D. student at UT Austin, has been awarded a Google Ph.D. Fellowship, the company announced on ...

E. Allen Emerson has a longstanding interest in formal methods for establishing program correctness. This was inspired in part by reading in the mid-1970's a CACM paper by Tony Hoare "Proof of Program ...

My research interests are in the area of machine learning for speech, language, and sound processing. I am particularly interested in multimodality and unsupervised ...

I am an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Computer Science.

Transfer Learning for Reinforcement Learning Domains: A Survey. Matthew E. Taylor and Peter Stone. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10(1):1633–1685, 2009.

Grounded Action Transformation for Robot Learning in Simulation. Josiah Hanna and Peter Stone. @InProceedings{AAAI17-Hanna, author = {Josiah Hanna and Peter Stone}, title = {Grounded Action ...

Multiagent Traffic Management: A Reservation-Based Intersection Control Mechanism. Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone. In The Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems ...

TEXPLORE: Real-Time Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Robots. Todd Hester and Peter Stone. Machine Learning, 90(3):385–429, 2013.

Two Stock-Trading Agents: Market Making and Technical Analysis. Yi Feng, Ronggang Yu, and Peter Stone. In Peyman Faratin, David C. Parkes, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, and William E. Walsh, editors, ...

Mobile Robot Planning using Action Language BC with an Abstraction Hierarchy. Shiqi Zhang, Fangkai Yang, Piyush Khandelwal, and Peter Stone. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on ...

In reinforcement learning (RL), a reward function that aligns exactly with a task's true performance metric is often sparse. For example, a true task metric might encode a reward of 1 upon success and ...