UT Austin Villa is a robot soccer team that has competed in the annual RoboCup soccer competitions since 2003. The team has won several championships and has inspired research contributions spanning ...

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

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 ...

Though computers have surpassed humans at many tasks, especially computationally intensive ones, there are many tasks for which human expertise remains necessary and/or useful. For such tasks, it is ...

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 ...

Imitation from observation (IfO) is the problem of learning directly from state-only demonstrations without having access to the demonstrator's actions.The lack of action information both ...

Our students and faculty are changing the world through their contributions to computing education, research, and industry. These awards received by members of the UT Computer Science community make ...

- C. Aggarwal (2018). Neural Networks and Deep Learning. New York: Springer. (required). - Various research papers (some required, some optional). The textbook will be available electronically through ...