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Craig Boutilier

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Papers indexed

154

Venues

19

Active years

1989–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

154 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026EACLConvApparel: A Benchmark Dataset and Validation Framework for User Simulators in Conversational Recommenders.Ofer Meshi, Krisztian Balog, Sally Goldman, Avi Caciularu, Guy Tennenholtz, Jihwan Jeong, Amir Globerson, Craig Boutilier
2025ICLRInference-Aware Fine-Tuning for Best-of-N Sampling in Large Language Models.Yinlam Chow, Guy Tennenholtz, Izzeddin Gur, Vincent Zhuang, Bo Dai, Aviral Kumar, Rishabh Agarwal, Sridhar Thiagarajan, Craig Boutilier, Aleksandra Faust
2025ICMLPreference Adaptive and Sequential Text-to-Image Generation.Ofir Nabati, Guy Tennenholtz, Chih-Wei Hsu, Moonkyung Ryu, Deepak Ramachandran, Yinlam Chow, Xiang Li, Craig Boutilier
2024AAAIRecommender Ecosystems: A Mechanism Design Perspective on Holistic Modeling and Optimization.Craig Boutilier, Martin Mladenov, Guy Tennenholtz
2024ICLRDemystifying Embedding Spaces using Large Language Models.Guy Tennenholtz, Yinlam Chow, Chih-Wei Hsu, Jihwan Jeong, Lior Shani, Azamat Tulepbergenov, Deepak Ramachandran, Martin Mladenov, Craig Boutilier
2024IJCAIModel-Free Preference Elicitation.Carlos Martin, Craig Boutilier, Ofer Meshi, Tuomas Sandholm
2024SIGIRMinimizing Live Experiments in Recommender Systems: User Simulation to Evaluate Preference Elicitation Policies.Chih-Wei Hsu, Martin Mladenov, Ofer Meshi, James Pine, Hubert Pham, Shane Li, Xujian Liang, Anton Polishko, Li Yang, Ben Scheetz, Craig Boutilier
2023ICLRA Mixture-of-Expert Approach to RL-based Dialogue Management.Yinlam Chow, Aza Tulepbergenov, Ofir Nachum, Dhawal Gupta, Moonkyung Ryu, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Craig Boutilier
2023ICMLReinforcement Learning with History Dependent Dynamic Contexts.Guy Tennenholtz, Nadav Merlis, Lior Shani, Martin Mladenov, Craig Boutilier
2022AAAISubjective Attributes in Conversational Recommendation Systems: Challenges and Opportunities.Filip Radlinski, Craig Boutilier, Deepak Ramachandran, Ivan Vendrov
2022AISTATSThompson Sampling with a Mixture Prior.Joey Hong, Branislav Kveton, Manzil Zaheer, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Craig Boutilier
2022IJCAIIMO^3: Interactive Multi-Objective Off-Policy Optimization.Nan Wang, Hongning Wang, Maryam Karimzadehgan, Branislav Kveton, Craig Boutilier
2022WWWDiscovering Personalized Semantics for Soft Attributes in Recommender Systems using Concept Activation Vectors.Christina Gpfert, Yinlam Chow, Chih-Wei Hsu, Ivan Vendrov, Tyler Lu, Deepak Ramachandran, Craig Boutilier
2021ICMLMeta-Thompson Sampling.Branislav Kveton, Mikhail Konobeev, Manzil Zaheer, Chih-Wei Hsu, Martin Mladenov, Craig Boutilier, Csaba Szepesvri
2021WWWTowards Content Provider Aware Recommender Systems: A Simulation Study on the Interplay between User and Provider Utilities.Ruohan Zhan, Konstantina Christakopoulou, Ya Le, Jayden Ooi, Martin Mladenov, Alex Beutel, Craig Boutilier, Ed H. Chi, Minmin Chen
2020AAAIGradient-Based Optimization for Bayesian Preference Elicitation.Ivan Vendrov, Tyler Lu, Qingqing Huang, Craig Boutilier
2020AISTATSRandomized Exploration in Generalized Linear Bandits.Branislav Kveton, Manzil Zaheer, Csaba Szepesvri, Lihong Li, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Craig Boutilier
2020ICLRCAQL: Continuous Action Q-Learning.Moonkyung Ryu, Yinlam Chow, Ross Anderson, Christian Tjandraatmadja, Craig Boutilier
2020ICMLOptimizing Long-term Social Welfare in Recommender Systems: A Constrained Matching Approach.Martin Mladenov, Elliot Creager, Omer Ben-Porat, Kevin Swersky, Richard S. Zemel, Craig Boutilier
2020ICMLConQUR: Mitigating Delusional Bias in Deep Q-Learning.Dijia Su, Jayden Ooi, Tyler Lu, Dale Schuurmans, Craig Boutilier
2020IJCAIBRPO: Batch Residual Policy Optimization.Sungryull Sohn, Yinlam Chow, Jayden Ooi, Ofir Nachum, Honglak Lee, Ed H. Chi, Craig Boutilier
2020RecSysDemonstrating Principled Uncertainty Modeling for Recommender Ecosystems with RecSim NG.Martin Mladenov, Chih-Wei Hsu, Vihan Jain, Eugene Ie, Christopher Colby, Nicolas Mayoraz, Hubert Pham, Dustin Tran, Ivan Vendrov, Craig Boutilier
2019IJCAISlateQ: A Tractable Decomposition for Reinforcement Learning with Recommendation Sets.Eugene Ie, Vihan Jain, Jing Wang, Sanmit Narvekar, Ritesh Agarwal, Rui Wu, Heng-Tze Cheng, Tushar Chandra, Craig Boutilier
2019IJCAIPerturbed-History Exploration in Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits.Branislav Kveton, Csaba Szepesvri, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Craig Boutilier
2019IJCAIAdvantage Amplification in Slowly Evolving Latent-State Environments.Martin Mladenov, Ofer Meshi, Jayden Ooi, Dale Schuurmans, Craig Boutilier
2019UAIPerturbed-History Exploration in Stochastic Linear Bandits.Branislav Kveton, Csaba Szepesvri, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Craig Boutilier
2018IJCAIPlanning and Learning with Stochastic Action Sets.Craig Boutilier, Alon Cohen, Avinatan Hassidim, Yishay Mansour, Ofer Meshi, Martin Mladenov, Dale Schuurmans
2017IJCAILogistic Markov Decision Processes.Martin Mladenov, Craig Boutilier, Dale Schuurmans, Ofer Meshi, Gal Elidan, Tyler Lu
2017IJCAIMultiple-Profile Prediction-of-Use Games.Andrew Perrault, Craig Boutilier
2016UAIBudget Allocation using Weakly Coupled, Constrained Markov Decision Processes.Craig Boutilier, Tyler Lu
2015AAAIThe Pricing War Continues: On Competitive Multi-Item Pricing.Omer Lev, Joel Oren, Craig Boutilier, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
2015AAAIValue-Directed Compression of Large-Scale Assignment Problems.Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
2015IJCAIApproximately Stable Pricing for Coordinated Purchasing of Electricity.Andrew Perrault, Craig Boutilier
2015RecSysPreference-oriented Social Networks: Group Recommendation and Inference.Amirali Salehi-Abari, Craig Boutilier
2014AAAIRobust Winners and Winner Determination Policies under Candidate Uncertainty.Craig Boutilier, Jrme Lang, Joel Oren, Hctor Palacios
2014AAAIPreference Elicitation and Interview Minimization in Stable Matchings.Joanna Drummond, Craig Boutilier
2014AAAIRegret-Based Optimization and Preference Elicitation for Stackelberg Security Games with Uncertainty.Thanh Hong Nguyen, Amulya Yadav, Bo An, Milind Tambe, Craig Boutilier
2014AAAIA Game-Theoretic Analysis of Catalog Optimization.Joel Oren, Nina Narodytska, Craig Boutilier
2013AAAIOn the Value of Using Group Discounts under Price Competition.Reshef Meir, Tyler Lu, Moshe Tennenholtz, Craig Boutilier
2013IJCAIElicitation and Approximately Stable Matching with Partial Preferences.Joanna Drummond, Craig Boutilier
2013IJCAIMulti-Winner Social Choice with Incomplete Preferences.Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
2013IJCAIEfficient Vote Elicitation under Candidate Uncertainty.Joel Oren, Yuval Filmus, Craig Boutilier
2013IJCAIAnalysis and Optimization of Multi-Dimensional Percentile Mechanisms.Xin Sui, Craig Boutilier, Tuomas Sandholm
2013IJCAIMulti-Dimensional Single-Peaked Consistency and Its Approximations.Xin Sui, Alex Francois-Nienaber, Craig Boutilier
2012AAAIA Dynamic Rationalization of Distance Rationalizability.Craig Boutilier, Ariel D. Procaccia
2012AAMASEliciting forecasts from self-interested experts: scoring rules for decision makers.Craig Boutilier
2012ICMLActive Learning for Matching Problems.Laurent Charlin, Richard S. Zemel, Craig Boutilier
2012UAIBayesian Vote Manipulation: Optimal Strategies and Impact on Welfare.Tyler Lu, Pingzhong Tang, Ariel D. Procaccia, Craig Boutilier
2011AAAIEfficiency and Privacy Tradeoffs in Mechanism Design.Xin Sui, Craig Boutilier
2011AAAIRecommendation Sets and Choice Queries: There Is No Exploration/Exploitation Tradeoff!Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
2011AAAIA Bayesian Concept Learning Approach to Crowdsourcing.Paolo Viappiani, Sandra Zilles, Howard J. Hamilton, Craig Boutilier
2011CPAIORPreference Elicitation and Preference Learning in Social Choice.Craig Boutilier
2011ICMLLearning Mallows Models with Pairwise Preferences.Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
2011IJCAIBudgeted Social Choice: From Consensus to Personalized Decision Making.Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
2011IJCAIRobust Approximation and Incremental Elicitation in Voting Protocols.Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
2011IJCAIEliciting Additive Reward Functions for Markov Decision Processes.Kevin Regan, Craig Boutilier
2011IJCAIRobust Online Optimization of Reward-Uncertain MDPs.Kevin Regan, Craig Boutilier
2011IJCAIA Bayesian Concept Learning Approach to Crowdsourcing.Paolo Viappiani, Sandra Zilles, Howard J. Hamilton, Craig Boutilier
2011UAIA Framework for Optimizing Paper Matching.Laurent Charlin, Richard S. Zemel, Craig Boutilier
2010AAAISimultaneous Elicitation of Preference Features and Utility.Craig Boutilier, Kevin Regan, Paolo Viappiani
2010AAAIRobust Policy Computation in Reward-Uncertain MDPs Using Nondominated Policies.Kevin Regan, Craig Boutilier
2010AAAIAutomated Channel Abstraction for Advertising Auctions.William E. Walsh, Craig Boutilier, Tuomas Sandholm, Rob Shields, George L. Nemhauser, David C. Parkes
2009ICMLOnline feature elicitation in interactive optimization.Craig Boutilier, Kevin Regan, Paolo Viappiani
2009IJCAIOptimal Set Recommendations Based on Regret.Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
2009IUIA probabilistic mental model for estimating disruption.Bowen Hui, Grant A. Partridge, Craig Boutilier
2009RecSysPreference elicitation with subjective features.Craig Boutilier, Kevin Regan, Paolo Viappiani
2009RecSysRegret-based optimal recommendation sets in conversational recommender systems.Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
2009UAIRegret-based Reward Elicitation for Markov Decision Processes.Kevin Regan, Craig Boutilier
2008AAAIExpressive Banner Ad Auctions and Model-Based Online Optimization for Clearing.Craig Boutilier, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm, William E. Walsh
2008AAAIComputing Reserve Prices and Identifying the Value Distribution in Real-world Auctions with Market Disruptions.William E. Walsh, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm, Craig Boutilier
2008AVIThe need for an interaction cost model in adaptive interfaces.Bowen Hui, Sean Gustafson, Pourang Irani, Craig Boutilier
2008UAIToward Experiential Utility Elicitation for Interface Customization.Bowen Hui, Craig Boutilier
2007AAAIComputing Optimal Subsets.Maxim Binshtok, Ronen I. Brafman, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ajay Mani, Craig Boutilier
2007AAAIPartial Revelation Automated Mechanism Design.Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
2007IJCAICoalitional Bargaining with Agent Type Uncertainty.Georgios Chalkiadakis, Craig Boutilier
2007IJCAIMechanism Design with Partial Revelation.Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
2007IJCAIAutomated Design of Multistage Mechanisms.Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Conitzer, Craig Boutilier
2007UAIMinimax regret based elicitation of generalized additive utilities.Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
2006AAAIPreference Elicitation and Generalized Additive Utility.Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
2006AAAIRegret-based Incremental Partial Revelation Mechanisms.Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
2006IUIWho's asking for help?: a Bayesian approach to intelligent assistance.Bowen Hui, Craig Boutilier
2006UAIPractical Linear Value-approximation Techniques for First-order MDPs.Scott Sanner, Craig Boutilier
2005AAAINew Approaches to Optimization and Utility Elicitation in Autonomic Computing.Relu Patrascu, Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Gerald Tesauro, William E. Walsh
2005IJCAIA Decision-Theoretic Approach to Task Assistance for Persons with Dementia.Jennifer Boger, Pascal Poupart, Jesse Hoey, Craig Boutilier, Geoff R. Fernie, Alex Mihailidis
2005IJCAIRegret-based Utility Elicitation in Constraint-based Decision Problems.Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Dale Schuurmans
2005UAILocal Utility Elicitation in GAI Models.Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
2005UAIApproximate Linear Programming for First-order MDPs.Scott Sanner, Craig Boutilier
2004AAAIEliciting Bid Taker Non-price Preferences in (Combinatorial) Auctions.Craig Boutilier, Tuomas Sandholm, Rob Shields
2004AAAIStochastic Local Search for POMDP Controllers.Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
2004UAIRegret Minimizing Equilibria and Mechanisms for Games with Strict Type Uncertainty.Nathanael Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
2003AISTATSAn Active Approach to Collaborative Filtering.Richard S. Zemel, Craig Boutilier
2003CPConstraint-Based Optimization with the Minimax Decision Criterion.Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Dale Schuurmans
2003IJCAIOn the Foundations of Expected Expected Utility.Craig Boutilier
2003IJCAITowards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems.Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, William E. Walsh
2003IJCAIA Bayesian Approach to Imitation in Reinforcement Learning.Bob Price, Craig Boutilier
2003IJCAIIncremental Utility Elicitation with the Minimax Regret Decision Criterion.Tianhan Wang, Craig Boutilier
2003UAICooperative Negotiation in Autonomic Systems using Incremental Utility Elicitation.Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Gerald Tesauro, William E. Walsh
2003UAIActive Collaborative Filtering.Craig Boutilier, Richard S. Zemel, Benjamin M. Marlin
2002AAAIA POMDP Formulation of Preference Elicitation Problems.Craig Boutilier
2002AAAISolving Concisely Expressed Combinatorial Auction Problems.Craig Boutilier
2002AAAIGreedy Linear Value-Approximation for Factored Markov Decision Processes.Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Dale Schuurmans, Craig Boutilier, Carlos Guestrin
2002AAAIPiecewise Linear Value Function Approximation for Factored MDPs.Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Dale Schuurmans
2001AIImitation and Reinforcement Learning in Agents with Heterogeneous Actions.Bob Price, Craig Boutilier
2001IJCAIBidding Languages for Combinatorial Auctions.Craig Boutilier, Holger H. Hoos
2001IJCAISymbolic Dynamic Programming for First-Order MDPs.Craig Boutilier, Raymond Reiter, Bob Price
2001UAIUCP-Networks: A Directed Graphical Representation of Conditional Utilities.Craig Boutilier, Fahiem Bacchus, Ronen I. Brafman
2001UAIVector-space Analysis of Belief-state Approximation for POMDPs.Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier
2001UAIValue-Directed Sampling Methods for POMDPs.Pascal Poupart, Luis E. Ortiz, Craig Boutilier
2000AAAIDecision Making under Uncertainty: Operations Research Meets AI (Again).Craig Boutilier
2000AAAIDecision-Theoretic, High-Level Agent Programming in the Situation Calculus.Craig Boutilier, Raymond Reiter, Mikhail Soutchanski, Sebastian Thrun
2000AAAISolving Combinatorial Auctions Using Stochastic Local Search.Holger H. Hoos, Craig Boutilier
2000UAIApproximately Optimal Monitoring of Plan Preconditions.Craig Boutilier
2000UAIValue-Directed Belief State Approximation for POMDPs.Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier
1999ICMLImplicit Imitation in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning.Bob Price, Craig Boutilier
1999IJCAISequential Optimality and Coordination in Multiagent Systems.Craig Boutilier
1999IJCAIResource Allocation Using Sequential Auctions.Craig Boutilier, Moiss Goldszmidt, Claire Monteleoni, Bikash Sabata
1999IJCAISequential Auctions for the Allocation of Resources with Complementarities.Craig Boutilier, Moiss Goldszmidt, Bikash Sabata
1999UAIReasoning With Conditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements.Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Holger H. Hoos, David Poole
1999UAIContinuous Value Function Approximation for Sequential Bidding Policies.Craig Boutilier, Moiss Goldszmidt, Bikash Sabata
1999UAISPUDD: Stochastic Planning using Decision Diagrams.Jesse Hoey, Robert St-Aubin, Alan J. Hu, Craig Boutilier
1998AAAIBelief Revision with Unreliable Observations.Craig Boutilier, Nir Friedman, Joseph Y. Halpern
1998AAAIThe Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multiagent Systems.Caroline Claus, Craig Boutilier
1998AAAISolving Very Large Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Processes.Nicolas Meuleau, Milos Hauskrecht, Kee-Eung Kim, Leonid Peshkin, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Thomas L. Dean, Craig Boutilier
1998UAIStructured Reachability Analysis for Markov Decision Processes.Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher W. Geib
1998UAIHierarchical Solution of Markov Decision Processes using Macro-actions.Milos Hauskrecht, Nicolas Meuleau, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Thomas L. Dean, Craig Boutilier
1997AAAIStructured Solution Methods for Non-Markovian Decision Processes.Fahiem Bacchus, Craig Boutilier, Adam J. Grove
1997AAAIPlanning with Concurrent Interacting Actions.Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman
1997IJCAIPrioritized Goal Decomposition of Markov Decision Processes: Toward a Synthesis of Classical and Decision Theoretic Planning.Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher W. Geib
1997UAICorrelated Action Effects in Decision Theoretic Regression.Craig Boutilier
1997UAIStructured Arc Reversal and Simulation of Dynamic Probabilistic Networks.Adrian Y. W. Cheuk, Craig Boutilier
1996AAAIRewarding Behaviors.Fahiem Bacchus, Craig Boutilier, Adam J. Grove
1996AAAIComputing Optimal Policies for Partially Observable Decision Processes Using Compact Representations.Craig Boutilier, David Poole
1996AIThe Frame Problem and Bayesian Network Action Representation.Craig Boutilier, Moiss Goldszmidt
1996ICMLApproximate Value Trees in Structured Dynamic Programming.Craig Boutilier, Richard Dearden
1996UAILearning Conventions in Multiagent Stochastic Domains using Likelihood Estimates.Craig Boutilier
1996UAIContext-Specific Independence in Bayesian Networks.Craig Boutilier, Nir Friedman, Moiss Goldszmidt, Daphne Koller
1996TARKPlanning, Learning and Coordination in Multiagent Decision Processes.Craig Boutilier
1995IJCAIGeneralized Update: Belief Change in Dynamic Settings.Craig Boutilier
1995IJCAIExploiting Structure in Policy Construction.Craig Boutilier, Richard Dearden, Moiss Goldszmidt
1995IJCAIProcess-Oriented Planning and Average-Reward Optimality.Craig Boutilier, Martin L. Puterman
1994AAAIUsing Abstractions for Decision-Theoretic Planning with Time Constraints.Craig Boutilier, Richard Dearden
1994KRToward a Logic for Qualitative Decision Theory.Craig Boutilier
1994UAIIntegrating Planning and Execution in Stochastic Domains.Richard Dearden, Craig Boutilier
1993AAAIAbduction As Belief Revision: A Model of Preferred Explanations.Craig Boutilier, Vernica Becher
1993AAAIRevision by Conditional Beliefs.Craig Boutilier, Moiss Goldszmidt
1993IJCAIRevision Sequences and Nested Conditionals.Craig Boutilier
1993UAIThe Probability of a Possibility: Adding Uncertainty to Default Rules.Craig Boutilier
1992AAAIA Logic for Revision and Subjunctive Queries.Craig Boutilier
1992ECAINormative, Subjunctive and Autoepistemic Defaults.Craig Boutilier
1992KRNormative, Subjunctive, and Autoepistemic Defaults: Adopting the Ramsey Test.Craig Boutilier
1992UAIModal Logics for Qualitative Possibility and Beliefs.Craig Boutilier
1991IJCAIInaccessible Worlds and Irrelevance: Preliminary Report.Craig Boutilier
1990AAAIConditional Logics of Normality as Modal Systems.Craig Boutilier
1989IJCAIA Semantical Approach to Stable Inheritance Reasoning.Craig Boutilier