Publications

Alicia Peregrin Wolfe, Paying Attention To What Matters: Observation Abstraction In Partially Observable Environments. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA. 2010. [pdf]

Alicia Peregrin Wolfe, Finding Equivalences Among Abstract Actions, Proceedings of the ICML/UAI/COLT Workshop on Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning, Montreal, 2009. [pdf]

Alicia Peregrin Wolfe and Andrew G. Barto, Decision Tree Methods for Finding Reusable MDP Homomorphisms. In Proceedings of AAAI-06, 2006. [pdf]

Alicia Peregrin Wolfe and Andrew G. Barto, Defining Object Types and Options Using MDP Homomorphisms. In Proceedings of the ICML-06 Workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning, 2006. [pdf]

Alicia Peregrin Wolfe, POMDP Homomorphisms. Poster presented at The NIPS-2006 Workshop on Grounding Perception, Knowledge and Cognition in Sensory-Motor Experience., 2006.[pdf] [poster] Note: There are a couple of obvious errors in this workshop paper. See my dissertation for corrections.

Özgür Şimşek, Alicia P. Wolfe, and Andrew G. Barto, Identifying useful subgoals in reinforcement learning by local graph partitioning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-05). [pdf]

Alicia P. Wolfe and David Jensen, Playing Multiple Roles: Discovering Overlapping Roles in Social Networks. In Proceedings of the ICML-04 Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning and its Connections to Other Fields, 2004. [pdf]

Özgür Şimşek, Alicia P. Wolfe, and Andrew G. Barto, 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. [pdf]

Benjamin A. Allan, Robert C. Armstrong, Alicia P. Wolfe, Jaideep Ray, David E. Bernholdt, James Arthur Kohl, The CCA core specification in a distributed memory SPMD framework. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 14(5): 323-345 , 2002. [pdf]