Mark Rowland
52 papers · 2016–2025 · 6 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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off-policy learning
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return distribution
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value function
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representation learning
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temporal difference learning
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Papers
A Unifying Framework for Action-Conditional Self-Predictive Reinforcement Learning
AISTATS 2025
Categorical Distributional Reinforcement Learning with Kullback-Leibler Divergence: Convergence and Asymptotics
ICML 2025
Optimizing Return Distributions with Distributional Dynamic Programming
JMLR 2025
A Distributional Analogue to the Successor Representation
ICML 2024
A General Theoretical Paradigm to Understand Learning from Human Preferences
AISTATS 2024
An Analysis of Quantile Temporal-Difference Learning
JMLR 2024
Distributional Bellman Operators over Mean Embeddings
ICML 2024
Foundations of Multivariate Distributional Reinforcement Learning
NeurIPS 2024
Generalized Preference Optimization: A Unified Approach to Offline Alignment
ICML 2024
Human Alignment of Large Language Models through Online Preference Optimisation
ICML 2024
Nash Learning from Human Feedback
ICML 2024
Near-Minimax-Optimal Distributional Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model
NeurIPS 2024
A Novel Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm for Learning Principal Subspaces
AISTATS 2023
Bootstrapped Representations in Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2023
DoMo-AC: Doubly Multi-step Off-policy Actor-Critic Algorithm
ICML 2023
Quantile Credit Assignment
ICML 2023
The Statistical Benefits of Quantile Temporal-Difference Learning for Value Estimation
ICML 2023
Understanding Self-Predictive Learning for Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2023
VA-learning as a more efficient alternative to Q-learning
ICML 2023
Generalised Policy Improvement with Geometric Policy Composition
ICML 2022
Learning Dynamics and Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2022
Marginalized Operators for Off-policy Reinforcement Learning
AISTATS 2022
Optimistic Posterior Sampling for Reinforcement Learning with Few Samples and Tight Guarantees
NeurIPS 2022
The Nature of Temporal Difference Errors in Multi-step Distributional Reinforcement Learning
NeurIPS 2022
Understanding and Preventing Capacity Loss in Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2022
From Poincaré Recurrence to Convergence in Imperfect Information Games: Finding Equilibrium via Regularization
ICML 2021
MICo: Improved representations via sampling-based state similarity for Markov decision processes
NeurIPS 2021
On the Effect of Auxiliary Tasks on Representation Dynamics
AISTATS 2021
Revisiting Peng’s Q($λ$) for Modern Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2021
Taylor Expansion of Discount Factors
ICML 2021
The Value-Improvement Path: Towards Better Representations for Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2021
Unifying Gradient Estimators for Meta-Reinforcement Learning via Off-Policy Evaluation
NeurIPS 2021
Adaptive Trade-Offs in Off-Policy Learning
AISTATS 2020
A Generalized Training Approach for Multiagent Learning
ICLR 2020
Conditional Importance Sampling for Off-Policy Learning
AISTATS 2020
Fast computation of Nash Equilibria in Imperfect Information Games
ICML 2020
Revisiting Fundamentals of Experience Replay
ICML 2020
Multiagent Evaluation under Incomplete Information
NeurIPS 2019
Orthogonal Estimation of Wasserstein Distances
AISTATS 2019
Statistics and Samples in Distributional Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2019
Unifying Orthogonal Monte Carlo Methods
ICML 2019
An Analysis of Categorical Distributional Reinforcement Learning
AISTATS 2018
Gaussian Process Behaviour in Wide Deep Neural Networks
ICLR 2018
Geometrically Coupled Monte Carlo Sampling
NeurIPS 2018
Structured Evolution with Compact Architectures for Scalable Policy Optimization
ICML 2018
The Geometry of Random Features
AISTATS 2018
Conditions beyond treewidth for tightness of higher-order LP relaxations
AISTATS 2017
Magnetic Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
ICML 2017
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Structured Random Orthogonal Embeddings
NeurIPS 2017
Uprooting and Rerooting Higher-Order Graphical Models
NeurIPS 2017
Black-Box Alpha Divergence Minimization
ICML 2016
Tightness of LP Relaxations for Almost Balanced Models
AISTATS 2016