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20172026
most citedLearnings Options End-to-End for Continuous Action Tasks

34 citations · 46 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AI2026

Up and Down the Abstraction Ladder: Code-Based Skills for Language Agents

Bartłomiej Cupiał, Jens Tuyls, Maciej Wołczyk +5

Language agents struggle to act and learn in environments that require long sequences of low-level actions. Code-based abstractions can make these agents more productive by letting…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Learn from Language Feedback with Social Meta-Learning

Jonathan Cook, Diego Antognini, Martin Klissarov +2

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle to learn from corrective feedback within a conversational context. They are rarely proactive in soliciting this feedback, even when face…

cs.AI2026

Improving Interactive In-Context Learning from Natural Language Feedback

Martin Klissarov, Jonathan Cook, Diego Antognini +5

Adapting one's thought process based on corrective feedback is an essential ability in human learning, particularly in collaborative settings. In contrast, the current large langua…

cs.AI2026

Position: Introspective Experience from Conversational Environments as a Path to Better Learning

Claudiu Cristian Musat, Jackson Tolins, Diego Antognini +3

Current approaches to AI training treat reasoning as an emergent property of scale. We argue instead that robust reasoning emerges from linguistic self-reflection, itself internali…

cs.AI2025

Discovering Temporal Structure: An Overview of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Martin Klissarov, Akhil Bagaria, Ziyan Luo +3

Developing agents capable of exploring, planning and learning in complex open-ended environments is a grand challenge in artificial intelligence (AI). Hierarchical reinforcement le…

cs.AI2024

MaestroMotif: Skill Design from Artificial Intelligence Feedback

Martin Klissarov, Mikael Henaff, Roberta Raileanu +7

Describing skills in natural language has the potential to provide an accessible way to inject human knowledge about decision-making into an AI system. We present MaestroMotif, a m…

cs.AI2024

On the Modeling Capabilities of Large Language Models for Sequential Decision Making

Martin Klissarov, Devon Hjelm, Alexander Toshev +1

Large pretrained models are showing increasingly better performance in reasoning and planning tasks across different modalities, opening the possibility to leverage them for comple…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Code as Reward: Empowering Reinforcement Learning with VLMs

David Venuto, Sami Nur Islam, Martin Klissarov +3

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are able to understand visual concepts, describe and decompose complex tasks into sub-tasks, and provide feedback on task completion. In t…

cs.AI2023★ 6 cited

Motif: Intrinsic Motivation from Artificial Intelligence Feedback

Martin Klissarov, Pierluca D'Oro, Shagun Sodhani +5

Exploring rich environments and evaluating one's actions without prior knowledge is immensely challenging. In this paper, we propose Motif, a general method to interface such prior…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Deep Laplacian-based Options for Temporally-Extended Exploration

Martin Klissarov, Marlos C. Machado

Selecting exploratory actions that generate a rich stream of experience for better learning is a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). An approach to tackle this pr…

cs.LG2021

Flexible Option Learning

Martin Klissarov, Doina Precup

Temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning (RL), offers the promise of improving generalization and knowledge transfer in complex environments, by propagating information more…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Reward Propagation Using Graph Convolutional Networks

Martin Klissarov, Doina Precup

Potential-based reward shaping provides an approach for designing good reward functions, with the purpose of speeding up learning. However, automatically finding potential function…

cs.LG2020

Options of Interest: Temporal Abstraction with Interest Functions

Khimya Khetarpal, Martin Klissarov, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert +2

Temporal abstraction refers to the ability of an agent to use behaviours of controllers which act for a limited, variable amount of time. The options framework describes such behav…

cs.LG2017★ 34 cited

Learnings Options End-to-End for Continuous Action Tasks

Martin Klissarov, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Jean Harb +1

We present new results on learning temporally extended actions for continuoustasks, using the options framework (Suttonet al.[1999b], Precup [2000]). In orderto achieve this goal w…

cs.AI2017

When Waiting is not an Option : Learning Options with a Deliberation Cost

Jean Harb, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Martin Klissarov +1

Recent work has shown that temporally extended actions (options) can be learned fully end-to-end as opposed to being specified in advance. While the problem of "how" to learn optio…