Joel Veness

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alberta

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

  • Context Tree Switching
    Joel Veness, Kee Siong Ng, Marcus Hutter, Michael Bowling
    (to appear) Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2012.
    preprint source and binaries

  • Variance Reduction in Monte-Carlo Tree Search
    Joel Veness, Marc Lanctot, Michael Bowling
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011
    pdf bibtex

  • An Approximation of the Universal Intelligence Measure
    Shane Legg, Joel Veness
    Ray Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference, 2011
    pdf code arXive

  • Monte-Carlo Planning in Large POMDPs
    David Silver, Joel Veness
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010
    pdf video and code bibtex

  • Reinforcement Learning via AIXI Approximation
    Joel Veness, Kee Siong Ng, Marcus Hutter, David Silver
    Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2010
    pdf bibtex

  • Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search
    Joel Veness, David Silver, Will Uther, Alan Blair
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2009
    pdf video presentation bibtex

  • Effective Use of Transposition Tables in Stochastic Game Tree Search
    Joel Veness, Alan Blair
    IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 2007
    pdf IEEE page

Theses

  • Approximate Universal Artificial Intelligence
    PhD Thesis, UNSW, 2011, pdf
  • Expectimax Enhancements for Stochastic Game Players
    Undergraduate Thesis, UNSW, 2006, pdf

 

Latest News

New paper on data compression - Context Tree Switching - to appear at DCC 2012!

New conference paper on using variance reduction techniques within MCTS presented at NIPS 2011.