Publications

NOTE (July 2010): I just noticed that Google has removed the attachements from the documents that all these links lead to. This may have been the case for a long time. Sorry. That's very frustrating for me because I worked hard to get all those papers to a place where they would outlast me and potentially my academic career. I'll have to fix that.

This is a list of the papers I've published, in chronological order. If you follow the links, they will take you to Google base items with abstract, bibtex, and a link to the PDF version. The cute thing about using Google base items is that they are standalone "web items" that exist out on the Internet. If this page ever disappears, or I move it, the actual papers won't move... they will (in theory) be there as long as Google keeps the base service running. If you try out this approach, I'd love to hear how it works out for you.

2010

• • Shimon Whiteson, Brian Tanner, and Adam White. The Reinforcement Learning Competitions. AI Magazine, 31(2):81–94, Summer 2010.

2009

• • Brian Tanner and Adam White. RL-Glue: Language-Independent Software for Reinforcement-Learning Experiments. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10(Sep):2133--2136, 2009. (BibTex)

  • Shimon Whiteson, Brian Tanner, Matthew E. Taylor, and Peter Stone. Generalized Domains for Empirical Evaluations in Reinforcement Learning. In ICML 2009: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning: Workshop on Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning, June 2009

2007

• • Brian Tanner, Vadim Bulitko, Anna Koop, and Cosmin Paduraru.Grounding Abstractions in Predictive State Representations. Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. January 2007. 6 pages.

2006

• • Brian Tanner and Richard Sutton. Predictive Action Descriptions from Experience. 16th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming. Short paper. August 2006. 3 pages. 2005.

2005

• • Brian Tanner.Temporal Difference Networks. Master’s Thesis. September 2005 (published). 58 pages.

  • Brian Tanner and Richard Sutton. Temporal Difference Networks with Eligibility Traces. International Conference on Machine Learning 2005 (published). 8 pages.

    • NOTE: There was a typo in the published version of this paper in Figure 3. Click the link to get the updated version (August 2009).

  • Brian Tanner and Richard Sutton. Temporal Difference Networks with History. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. July 2005. 6 pages.

  • Eddie Rafols, Mark Ring, Richard Sutton, Brian Tanner. Using Predictive Representations for Generalization in Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. July 2005. 6 pages.

  • Robert C. Holte, Jeffery Grajkowski, Brian Tanner. Hierarchical Search Revisited. Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA). July 2005 (published). 13 pages.

2004

• • Richard Sutton and Brian Tanner. Temporal Difference Networks. In Proceedings of NIPS. December 2004 (published). 6 pages.

  • John Anderson, Brian Tanner, and Jacky Baltes. Dynamic coalition formation in robotic soccer. In Proceedings of the AAAI-04 Workshop on Forming and Maintaining Coalitions and Teams in Adaptive Multiagent Systems. 2004.

  • John Anderson, Brian Tanner, and Jacky Baltes. Reinforcement Learning from Teammates of Varying Skill in Robotic Soccer. In Proceedings of the 2004 FIRA Federation of International Robotic-soccer Association World Congress. 2004.

2002

• • John Anderson, Brian Tanner, and Ryan Wegner. Peer reinforcement in homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-agent learning. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing 2002.

  • John Anderson, Ryan Wegner, and Brian Tanner. Exploiting opportunities through dynamic coalitions in robotic soccer. In Proceedings of the AAAI International Workshop on Coalition Formation in Dynamic Multiagent Environments. 2002.