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Alan Fern

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

114

Venues

33

Active years

2000–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

114 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026AAAILocalized Near Surface Temperature Inversion Forecasting Using Long Short-Term Memory.Taylor Dinkins, Weng-Keen Wong, Basavaraj R. Amogi, Paola Pesantez-Cabrera, Jaitun Patel, Lav R. Khot, Alan Fern
2026AAAIBudgeted Online Active Learning with Expert Advice and Episodic Priors.Kristen Goebel, William Solow, Paola Pesantez-Cabrera, Markus Keller, Alan Fern
2025AAAIConstraint-Adaptive Policy Switching for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning.Yassine Chemingui, Aryan Deshwal, Honghao Wei, Alan Fern, Jana Doppa
2025AAAISelf-attention-based Diffusion Model for Time-series Imputation in Partial Blackout Scenarios.Mohammad Rafid Ul Islam, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
2024AAAIData-Driven Structural Fire Risk Prediction for City Properties.Rupasree Dey, Alan Fern
2024AAAIAttention-Based Models for Snow-Water Equivalent Prediction.Krishu K. Thapa, Bhupinderjeet Singh, Supriya Savalkar, Alan Fern, Kirti Rajagopalan, Ananth Kalyanaraman
2024CoRLLearning Decentralized Multi-Biped Control for Payload Transport.Bikram Pandit, Ashutosh Gupta, Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Addison Johnson, Aayam Kumar Shrestha, Helei Duan, Jeremy Dao, Alan Fern
2024ECCVGenerating Physically Realistic and Directable Human Motions from Multi-modal Inputs.Aayam Shrestha, Pan Liu, Germn Ros, Kai Yuan, Alan Fern
2024ICMLALearning Extended Forecasts of Soil Water Content via Physically-Inspired Autoregressive Models.Ozmen Erkin Kokten, Raviv Raich, James Holmes, Alan Fern
2024ICRASim-to-Real Learning for Humanoid Box Loco-Manipulation.Jeremy Dao, Helei Duan, Alan Fern
2024ICRALearning Vision-Based Bipedal Locomotion for Challenging Terrain.Helei Duan, Bikram Pandit, Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Bart van Marum, Jeremy Dao, Chanho Kim, Alan Fern
2024IROSInterruptive Language Control of Bipedal Locomotion.Ashish Malik, Stefan Lee, Alan Fern
2024IROSRevisiting Reward Design and Evaluation for Robust Humanoid Standing and Walking.Bart van Marum, Aayam Shrestha, Helei Duan, Pranay Dugar, Jeremy Dao, Alan Fern
2023AAAIGrape Cold Hardiness Prediction via Multi-Task Learning.Aseem Saxena, Paola Pesantez-Cabrera, Rohan Ballapragada, Kin-Ho Lam, Markus Keller, Alan Fern
2023ICRAOptimizing Bipedal Locomotion for The 100m Dash With Comparison to Human Running.Devin Crowley, Jeremy Dao, Helei Duan, Kevin Green, Jonathan W. Hurst, Alan Fern
2022ICRASim-to-Real Learning for Bipedal Locomotion Under Unsensed Dynamic Loads.Jeremy Dao, Kevin Green, Helei Duan, Alan Fern, Jonathan W. Hurst
2022ICRASim-to-Real Learning of Footstep-Constrained Bipedal Dynamic Walking.Helei Duan, Ashish Malik, Jeremy Dao, Aseem Saxena, Kevin Green, Jonah Siekmann, Alan Fern, Jonathan W. Hurst
2022IROSLearning Dynamic Bipedal Walking Across Stepping Stones.Helei Duan, Ashish Malik, Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Jeremy Dao, Alan Fern, Jonathan W. Hurst
2021ICLRContrastive Explanations for Reinforcement Learning via Embedded Self Predictions.Zhengxian Lin, Kin-Ho Lam, Alan Fern
2021ICLRDeepAveragers: Offline Reinforcement Learning By Solving Derived Non-Parametric MDPs.Aayam Kumar Shrestha, Stefan Lee, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
2021ICMLRe-understanding Finite-State Representations of Recurrent Policy Networks.Mohamad H. Danesh, Anurag Koul, Alan Fern, Saeed Khorram
2021ICRALearning Task Space Actions for Bipedal Locomotion.Helei Duan, Jeremy Dao, Kevin Green, Taylor Apgar, Alan Fern, Jonathan W. Hurst
2021ICRASim-to-Real Learning of All Common Bipedal Gaits via Periodic Reward Composition.Jonah Siekmann, Yesh Godse, Alan Fern, Jonathan W. Hurst
2021ICSEDoing Remote Controlled Studies with Humans: Tales from the COVID Trenches.Rupika Dikkala, Roli Khanna, Caleb R. Matthews, Jonathan Dodge, Sai Raja, Catherine Hu, Jed Irvine, Zeyad Shureih, Kin-Ho Lam, Andrew Anderson, Minsuk Kahng, Alan Fern, Margaret Burnett
2021SIGMODScalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias.Jose Picado, Arash Termehchy, Alan Fern, Sudhanshu Pathak, Praveen Ilango, John Davis
2020AAAIOptimizing Discrete Spaces via Expensive Evaluations: A Learning to Search Framework.Aryan Deshwal, Syrine Belakaria, Janardhan Rao Doppa, Alan Fern
2020AAAIThe Choice Function Framework for Online Policy Improvement.Murugeswari Issakkimuthu, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2020CogSciThe Origins of Common Sense in Humans and Machines.Kevin Smith, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, Deepak Pathak, Alan Fern, Josh Tenenbaum, Tomer D. Ullman
2020CVPRLearning Intuitive Physics by Explaining Surprise.Hung Nguyen, Jay Patravali, Fuxin Li, Alan Fern
2020IUIKeeping it "organized and logical": after-action review for AI (AAR/AI).Theresa Mai, Roli Khanna, Jonathan Dodge, Jed Irvine, Kin-Ho Lam, Zhengxian Lin, Nicholas Kiddle, Evan Newman, Sai Raja, Caleb R. Matthews, Christopher Perdriau, Margaret Burnett, Alan Fern
2020PADLExplanations for Dynamic Programming.Martin Erwig, Prashant Kumar, Alan Fern
2019AAAIStrategic Tasks for Explainable Reinforcement Learning.Rey Pocius, Lawrence Neal, Alan Fern
2019ICLRLearning Finite State Representations of Recurrent Policy Networks.Anurag Koul, Alan Fern, Sam Greydanus
2019IJCAIExplaining Reinforcement Learning to Mere Mortals: An Empirical Study.Andrew Anderson, Jonathan Dodge, Amrita Sadarangani, Zoe Juozapaitis, Evan Newman, Jed Irvine, Souti Chattopadhyay, Alan Fern, Margaret Burnett
2019IUIInteractive Naming for Explaining Deep Neural Networks: A Formative Study.Mandana Hamidi-Haines, Zhongang Qi, Alan Fern, Fuxin Li, Prasad Tadepalli
2018AAAICan We Achieve Open Category Detection with Guarantees?Si Liu, Risheek Garrepalli, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Dietterich
2018AAAIDetecting Cyberattack Entities from Audit Data via Multi-View Anomaly Detection with Feedback.Md Amran Siddiqui, Alan Fern, Ryan Wright, Alec Theriault, David W. Archer, William Maxwell
2018ICDEAutoMode: Relational Learning with Less Black Magic.Jose Picado, Sudhanshu Pathak, Arash Termehchy, Alan Fern
2018ICMLVisualizing and Understanding Atari Agents.Samuel Greydanus, Anurag Koul, Jonathan Dodge, Alan Fern
2018ICMLOpen Category Detection with PAC Guarantees.Si Liu, Risheek Garrepalli, Thomas G. Dietterich, Alan Fern, Dan Hendrycks
2018IJCAIEmergency Response Optimization using Online Hybrid Planning.Durga Harish Dayapule, Aswin Raghavan, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
2018KDDFeedback-Guided Anomaly Discovery via Online Optimization.Md Amran Siddiqui, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Dietterich, Ryan Wright, Alec Theriault, David W. Archer
2017AAAIHindsight Optimization for Hybrid State and Action MDPs.Aswin Raghavan, Scott Sanner, Roni Khardon, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
2017ALTAdaptive Submodularity with Varying Query Sets: An Application to Active Multi-label Learning.Alan Fern, Robby Goetschalckx, Mandana Hamidi-Haines, Prasad Tadepalli
2017CVPRBudget-Aware Deep Semantic Video Segmentation.Behrooz Mahasseni, Sinisa Todorovic, Alan Fern
2017SIGMODSchema Independent Relational Learning.Jose Picado, Arash Termehchy, Alan Fern, Parisa Ataei
2017SIGMODTowards Automatically Setting Language Bias in Relational Learning.Jose Picado, Arash Termehchy, Alan Fern, Sudhanshu Pathak
2016ICDMToward Representation Independent Analytics over Structured Data.Yodsawalai Chodpathumwan, Jose Picado, Arash Termehchy, Alan Fern, Yizhou Sun
2016ICDMIncorporating Expert Feedback into Active Anomaly Discovery.Shubhomoy Das, Weng-Keen Wong, Thomas G. Dietterich, Alan Fern, Andrew Emmott
2016UAIFinite Sample Complexity of Rare Pattern Anomaly Detection.Md Amran Siddiqui, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Dietterich, Shubhomoy Das
2015AAAIFactored MCTS for Large Scale Stochastic Planning.Hao Cui, Roni Khardon, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2015CVPRPerson count localization in videos from noisy foreground and detections.Sheng Chen, Alan Fern, Sinisa Todorovic
2015IJCAIMultitask Coactive Learning.Robby Goetschalckx, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2015IJCAIActive Imitation Learning of Hierarchical Policies.Mandana Hamidi, Prasad Tadepalli, Robby Goetschalckx, Alan Fern
2015WACVEfficiently Constructing Mosaics from Video Collections.Frank Liu, Robin Hess, Alan Fern
2015UAIProgressive Abstraction Refinement for Sparse Sampling.Jesse Hostetler, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Dietterich
2015UAIMemory-Effcient Symbolic Online Planning for Factored MDPs.Aswin Raghavan, Roni Khardon, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
2014AAAIHC-Search for Multi-Label Prediction: An Empirical Study.Janardhan Rao Doppa, Jun Yu, Chao Ma, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2014AAAICoactive Learning for Locally Optimal Problem Solving.Robby Goetschalckx, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2014AAAIState Aggregation in Monte Carlo Tree Search.Jesse Hostetler, Alan Fern, Tom Dietterich
2014AAAIImitation Learning with Demonstrations and Shaping Rewards.Kshitij Judah, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli, Robby Goetschalckx
2014AISTATSDynamic Resource Allocation for Optimizing Population Diffusion.Shan Xue, Alan Fern, Daniel Sheldon
2014CVPRMulti-object Tracking via Constrained Sequential Labeling.Sheng Chen, Alan Fern, Sinisa Todorovic
2014ECAILearning Pruning Rules for Heuristic Search Planning.Michal Krajnansk, Jrg Hoffmann, Olivier Buffet, Alan Fern
2014WACVPlay type recognition in real-world football video.Sheng Chen, Zhongyuan Feng, Qingkai Lu, Behrooz Mahasseni, Trevor Fiez, Alan Fern, Sinisa Todorovic
2014UAILearning Partial Policies to Speedup MDP Tree Search.Jervis Pinto, Alan Fern
2013AAAIHC-Search: Learning Heuristics and Cost Functions for Structured Prediction.Janardhan Rao Doppa, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2013AAAIRelational Markov Decision Processes: Promise and Prospects.Saket Joshi, Roni Khardon, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern, Aswin Raghavan
2013IAAIDetecting the Moment of Snap in Real-World Football Videos.Behrooz Mahasseni, Sheng Chen, Alan Fern, Sinisa Todorovic
2013ICCVMonte Carlo Tree Search for Scheduling Activity Recognition.Mohamed R. Amer, Sinisa Todorovic, Alan Fern, Song-Chun Zhu
2013KDDDetecting insider threats in a real corporate database of computer usage activity.Ted E. Senator, Henry G. Goldberg, Alex Memory, William T. Young, Brad Rees, Robert Pierce, Daniel Huang, Matthew Reardon, David A. Bader, Edmond Chow, Irfan A. Essa, Joshua Jones, Vinay Bettadapura, Duen Horng Chau, Oded Green, Oguz Kaya, Anita Zakrzewska, Erica Briscoe, Rudolph L. Mappus IV, Robert McColl, Lora Weiss, Thomas G. Dietterich, Alan Fern, Weng-Keen Wong, Shubhomoy Das, Andrew Emmott, Jed Irvine, Jay Yoon Lee, Danai Koutra, Christos Faloutsos, Daniel D. Corkill, Lisa Friedland, Amanda Gentzel, David D. Jensen
2012AAAIPlanning in Factored Action Spaces with Symbolic Dynamic Programming.Aswin Raghavan, Saket Joshi, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli, Roni Khardon
2012AAAIScheduling Conservation Designs via Network Cascade Optimization.Shan Xue, Alan Fern, Daniel Sheldon
2012GLOBECOMAchieving Quality of Service with Adaptation-based Programming for medium access protocols.Pingan Zhu, Jervis Pinto, Thinh Nguyen, Alan Fern
2012GPCEFaster program adaptation through reward attribution inference.Tim Bauer, Martin Erwig, Alan Fern, Jervis Pinto
2012ICMLBatch Active Learning via Coordinated Matching.Javad Azimi, Alan Fern, Xiaoli Zhang Fern, Glencora Borradaile, Brent Heeringa
2012ICMLOutput Space Search for Structured Prediction.Janardhan Rao Doppa, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2012ISoLALearning-Based Test Programming for Programmers.Alex Groce, Alan Fern, Martin Erwig, Jervis Pinto, Tim Bauer, Mohammad Amin Alipour
2012ISSRELightweight Automated Testing with Adaptation-Based Programming.Alex Groce, Alan Fern, Jervis Pinto, Tim Bauer, Mohammad Amin Alipour, Martin Erwig, Camden Lopez
2012UAIInferring Strategies from Limited Reconnaissance in Real-time Strategy Games.Jesse Hostetler, Ethan W. Dereszynski, Thomas G. Dietterich, Alan Fern
2012UAIActive Imitation Learning via Reduction to I.I.D. Active Learning.Kshitij Judah, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Dietterich
2011CVPRProbabilistic event logic for interval-based event recognition.William Brendel, Alan Fern, Sinisa Todorovic
2011IPCCCAdaptation-based programming for network protocol design: An 802.11x case study (abstract).Pingan Zhu, Jervis Pinto, Alan Fern, Thinh P. Nguyen
2011PEPMAdaptation-based programming in java.Tim Bauer, Martin Erwig, Alan Fern, Jervis Pinto
2010AAAIMyopic Policies for Budgeted Optimization with Constrained Experiments.Javad Azimi, Xiaoli Z. Fern, Alan Fern, Elizabeth Burrows, Frank Chaplen, Yanzhen Fan, Hong Liu, Jun Jaio, Rebecca Schaller
2010AAAIA Computational Decision Theory for Interactive Assistants.Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2010AAAIReinforcement Learning Via Practice and Critique Advice.Kshitij Judah, Saikat Roy, Alan Fern, Thomas G. Dietterich
2010AAAIBayesian Policy Search for Multi-Agent Role Discovery.Aaron Wilson, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2010ICMLARobust Learning for Adaptive Programs by Leveraging Program Structure.Jervis Pinto, Alan Fern, Tim Bauer, Martin Erwig
2010IWCMCQ-learning for opportunistic spectrum access.Omar I. Alsaleh, Bechir Hamdaoui, Alan Fern
2009CVPRDiscriminatively trained particle filters for complex multi-object tracking.Robin Hess, Alan Fern
2009IAAISimulation-based Optimization of Resource Placement and Emergency Response.Ronald Bjarnason, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern, Carl Niedner
2009IJCAIUCT for Tactical Assault Planning in Real-Time Strategy Games.Radha-Krishna Balla, Alan Fern
2008AAAIReinforcement Learning for Vulnerability Assessment in Peer-to-Peer Networks.Scott Dejmal, Alan Fern, Thinh P. Nguyen
2008AAAIProbabilistic Planning via Determinization in Hindsight.Sung Wook Yoon, Alan Fern, Robert Givan, Subbarao Kambhampati
2007CVPRImproved Video Registration using Non-Distinctive Local Image Features.Robin Hess, Alan Fern
2007ICCVMixture-of-Parts Pictorial Structures for Objects with Variable Part Sets.Robin Hess, Alan Fern, Eric N. Mortensen
2007ICMLLearning for efficient retrieval of structured data with noisy queries.Charles Parker, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2007ICMLMulti-task reinforcement learning: a hierarchical Bayesian approach.Aaron Wilson, Alan Fern, Soumya Ray, Prasad Tadepalli
2007ICMLOn learning linear ranking functions for beam search.Yuehua Xu, Alan Fern
2007IJCAIA Decision-Theoretic Model of Assistance.Alan Fern, Sriraam Natarajan, Kshitij Judah, Prasad Tadepalli
2007IJCAIRevisiting Output Coding for Sequential Supervised Learning.Guohua Hao, Alan Fern
2007IJCAIDiscriminative Learning of Beam-Search Heuristics for Planning.Yuehua Xu, Alan Fern, Sung Wook Yoon
2007IJCAIUsing Learned Policies in Heuristic-Search Planning.Sung Wook Yoon, Alan Fern, Robert Givan
2007ILPA Relational Hierarchical Model for Decision-Theoretic Assistance.Sriraam Natarajan, Prasad Tadepalli, Alan Fern
2006AAAIGradient Boosting for Sequence Alignment.Charles Parker, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli
2005AAAILearning Measures of Progress for Planning Domains.Sung Wook Yoon, Alan Fern, Robert Givan
2005ICMLLearning first-order probabilistic models with combining rules.Sriraam Natarajan, Prasad Tadepalli, Eric Altendorf, Thomas G. Dietterich, Alan Fern, Angelo C. Restificar
2005IJCAIA Simple-Transition Model for Relational Sequences.Alan Fern
2004ICMLRelational sequential inference with reliable observations.Alan Fern, Robert Givan
2002AAAISpecific-to-General Learning for Temporal Events.Alan Fern, Robert Givan, Jeffrey Mark Siskind
2002AAAILearning Temporal, Relational, Force-Dynamic Event Definitions from Video.Alan Fern, Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Robert Givan
2002UAIInductive Policy Selection for First-Order MDPs.Sung Wook Yoon, Alan Fern, Robert Givan
2000ICMLOnline Ensemble Learning: An Empirical Study.Alan Fern, Robert Givan