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Michael L. Littman

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Papers indexed

114

Venues

25

Active years

1992–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

114 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026SIGCSELearning Persistence & Resistance from History & SIGCSE Reads.Rebecca Bates, Judy Goldsmith, Valerie Summet, Nanette Veilleux, Katie Johnson, Michael L. Littman, Kyla A. McMullen, Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome
2025CHIHow Humans Communicate Programming Tasks in Natural Language and Implications For End-User Programming with LLMs.Madison Pickering, Helena Williams, Alison Gan, Weijia He, Hyojae Park, Francisco Piedrahita Velez, Michael L. Littman, Blase Ur
2025HRIEnabling End Users to Program Robots Using Reinforcement Learning.Tewodros W. Ayalew, Jennifer Wang, Michael L. Littman, Blase Ur, Sarah Sebo
2022IJCAIOn the Expressivity of Markov Reward (Extended Abstract).David Abel, Will Dabney, Anna Harutyunyan, Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, Doina Precup, Satinder Singh
2022IJCAIOn the (In)Tractability of Reinforcement Learning for LTL Objectives.Cambridge Yang, Michael L. Littman, Michael Carbin
2022NAACLExplaining Why: How Instructions and User Interfaces Impact Annotator Rationales When Labeling Text Data.Jamar L. Sullivan Jr., William Brackenbury, Andrew McNut, Kevin Bryson, Kwam Byll, Yuxin Chen, Michael L. Littman, Chenhao Tan, Blase Ur
2021AAAIDeep Radial-Basis Value Functions for Continuous Control.Kavosh Asadi, Neev Parikh, Ronald E. Parr, George Dimitri Konidaris, Michael L. Littman
2021AAAILipschitz Lifelong Reinforcement Learning.Erwan Lecarpentier, David Abel, Kavosh Asadi, Yuu Jinnai, Emmanuel Rachelson, Michael L. Littman
2021AAAITowards Sample Efficient Agents through Algorithmic Alignment (Student Abstract).Mingxuan Li, Michael L. Littman
2021CHIUnderstanding Trigger-Action Programs Through Novel Visualizations of Program Differences.Valerie Zhao, Lefan Zhang, Bo Wang, Michael L. Littman, Shan Lu, Blase Ur
2020AAAIPeople Do Not Just Plan, They Plan to Plan.Mark K. Ho, David Abel, Jonathan D. Cohen, Michael L. Littman, Thomas L. Griffiths
2020AISTATSValue Preserving State-Action Abstractions.David Abel, Nate Umbanhowar, Khimya Khetarpal, Dilip Arumugam, Doina Precup, Michael L. Littman
2020HRITeaching a Robot Tasks of Arbitrary Complexity via Human Feedback.Guan Wang, Carl Trimbach, Jun Ki Lee, Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman
2020LAKApplying prerequisite structure inference to adaptive testing.Sam Saarinen, Evan Cater, Michael L. Littman
2019AAAIState Abstraction as Compression in Apprenticeship Learning.David Abel, Dilip Arumugam, Kavosh Asadi, Yuu Jinnai, Michael L. Littman, Lawson L. S. Wong
2019AAAITheory of Minds: Understanding Behavior in Groups through Inverse Planning.Michael Shum, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Michael L. Littman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
2019CHIHow Users Interpret Bugs in Trigger-Action Programming.Will Brackenbury, Abhimanyu Deora, Jillian Ritchey, Jason Vallee, Weijia He, Guan Wang, Michael L. Littman, Blase Ur
2019ICMLFinding Options that Minimize Planning Time.Yuu Jinnai, David Abel, David Ellis Hershkowitz, Michael L. Littman, George Dimitri Konidaris
2019IJCAIThe Expected-Length Model of Options.David Abel, John Winder, Marie desJardins, Michael L. Littman
2019IJCAIDeepMellow: Removing the Need for a Target Network in Deep Q-Learning.Seungchan Kim, Kavosh Asadi, Michael L. Littman, George Dimitri Konidaris
2019InteractEvidence Humans Provide When Explaining Data-Labeling Decisions.Judah Newman, Bowen Wang, Valerie Zhao, Amy Zeng, Michael L. Littman, Blase Ur
2018AAAIBandit-Based Solar Panel Control.David Abel, Edward C. Williams, Stephen Brawner, Emily Reif, Michael L. Littman
2018CogSciEffectively Learning from Pedagogical Demonstrations.Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, Fiery Cushman, Joseph L. Austerweil
2018ICMLState Abstractions for Lifelong Reinforcement Learning.David Abel, Dilip Arumugam, Lucas Lehnert, Michael L. Littman
2018ICMLPolicy and Value Transfer in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning.David Abel, Yuu Jinnai, Yue (Sophie) Guo, George Dimitri Konidaris, Michael L. Littman
2018ICMLLipschitz Continuity in Model-based Reinforcement Learning.Kavosh Asadi, Dipendra Misra, Michael L. Littman
2017CogSciTeaching by Intervention: Working Backwards, Undoing Mistakes, or Correcting Mistakes?Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, Joseph L. Austerweil
2017ICMLAn Alternative Softmax Operator for Reinforcement Learning.Kavosh Asadi, Michael L. Littman
2017ICMLInteractive Learning from Policy-Dependent Human Feedback.James MacGlashan, Mark K. Ho, Robert Tyler Loftin, Bei Peng, Guan Wang, David L. Roberts, Matthew E. Taylor, Michael L. Littman
2016AAAIReinforcement Learning as a Framework for Ethical Decision Making.David Abel, James MacGlashan, Michael L. Littman
2016CHITrigger-Action Programming in the Wild: An Analysis of 200, 000 IFTTT Recipes.Blase Ur, Melwyn Pak Yong Ho, Stephen Brawner, Jiyun Lee, Sarah Mennicken, Noah Picard, Diane Schulze, Michael L. Littman
2016CogSciFeature-based Joint Planning and Norm Learning in Collaborative Games.Mark K. Ho, James MacGlashan, Amy Greenwald, Michael L. Littman, Elizabeth Hilliard, Carl Trimbach, Stephen Brawner, Josh Tenenbaum, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Joseph L. Austerweil
2016CogSciCoordinate to cooperate or compete: Abstract goals and joint intentions in social interaction.Max Kleiman-Weiner, Mark K. Ho, Joseph L. Austerweil, Michael L. Littman, Josh Tenenbaum
2016ICMLNear Optimal Behavior via Approximate State Abstraction.David Abel, D. Ellis Hershkowitz, Michael L. Littman
2016RecSysLearning User's Preferred Household Organization via Collaborative Filtering Methods.Stephen Brawner, Michael L. Littman
2015CogSciTeaching with Rewards and Punishments: Reinforcement or Communication?Mark K. Ho, Michael L. Littman, Fiery Cushman, Joseph L. Austerweil
2015IJCAIBetween Imitation and Intention Learning.James MacGlashan, Michael L. Littman
2014AAAIA Strategy-Aware Technique for Learning Behaviors from Discrete Human Feedback.Robert Tyler Loftin, James MacGlashan, Bei Peng, Matthew E. Taylor, Michael L. Littman, Jeff Huang, David L. Roberts
2014AAAIQuantifying Uncertainty in Batch Personalized Sequential Decision Making.Vukosi Marivate, Jessica Chemali, Emma Brunskill, Michael L. Littman
2014CHIPractical trigger-action programming in the smart home.Blase Ur, Elyse McManus, Melwyn Pak Yong Ho, Michael L. Littman
2014CogSciFlexible theft and resolute punishment: Evolutionary dynamics of social behavior among reinforcement-learning agents.James MacGlashan, Michael L. Littman, Fiery Cushman
2014RO-MANLearning something from nothing: Leveraging implicit human feedback strategies.Robert Tyler Loftin, Bei Peng, James MacGlashan, Michael L. Littman, Matthew E. Taylor, Jeff Huang, David L. Roberts
2013AAAIAAAI-13 Preface.Marie desJardins, Michael L. Littman
2013AAAIAn Ensemble of Linearly Combined Reinforcement-Learning Agents.Vukosi Marivate, Michael L. Littman
2013AAAIOpen-Loop Planning in Large-Scale Stochastic Domains.Ari Weinstein, Michael L. Littman
2013ICMLThe Cross-Entropy Method Optimizes for Quantiles.Sergiu Goschin, Ari Weinstein, Michael L. Littman
2013ICMLCoco-Q: Learning in Stochastic Games with Side Payments.Eric Sodomka, Elizabeth Hilliard, Michael L. Littman, Amy Greenwald
2012AAAICovering Number as a Complexity Measure for POMDP Planning and Learning.Zongzhang Zhang, Michael L. Littman, Xiaoping Chen
2012AAMASA framework for modeling population strategies by depth of reasoning.Michael Wunder, John Robert Yaros, Michael Kaisers, Michael L. Littman
2011GECCOThe effects of selection on noisy fitness optimization.Sergiu Goschin, Michael L. Littman, David H. Ackley
2011HCIScratchable Devices: User-Friendly Programming for Household Appliances.Jordan T. Ash, Monica Babes, Gal Cohen, Sameen Jalal, Sam Lichtenberg, Michael L. Littman, Vukosi Marivate, Phillip Quiza, Blase Ur, Emily Zhang
2011ICMLApprenticeship Learning About Multiple Intentions.Monica Babes, Vukosi Marivate, Kaushik Subramanian, Michael L. Littman
2011UAILearning is planning: near Bayes-optimal reinforcement learning via Monte-Carlo tree search.John Asmuth, Michael L. Littman
2010AAAIEfficient Apprenticeship Learning with Smart Humans.Kaushik Subramanian, Michael L. Littman
2010AAAIIntegrating Sample-Based Planning and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning.Thomas J. Walsh, Sergiu Goschin, Michael L. Littman
2010AAAIA Cognitive Hierarchy Model Applied to the Lemonade Game.Michael Wunder, Michael L. Littman, Michael Kaisers, John Robert Yaros
2010ICMLGeneralizing Apprenticeship Learning across Hypothesis Classes.Thomas J. Walsh, Kaushik Subramanian, Michael L. Littman, Carlos Diuk
2010ICMLClasses of Multiagent Q-learning Dynamics with epsilon-greedy Exploration.Michael Wunder, Michael L. Littman, Monica Babes
2010SIGCSEBroadening student enthusiasm for computer science with a great insights course.Marie desJardins, Michael L. Littman
2009UAIA Bayesian Sampling Approach to Exploration in Reinforcement Learning.John Asmuth, Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman, Ali Nouri, David Wingate
2009UAIExploring compact reinforcement-learning representations with linear regression.Thomas J. Walsh, Istvan Szita, Carlos Diuk, Michael L. Littman
2008AAAIPotential-based Shaping in Model-based Reinforcement Learning.John Asmuth, Michael L. Littman, Robert Zinkov
2008AAAIEfficient Learning of Action Schemas and Web-Service Descriptions.Thomas J. Walsh, Michael L. Littman
2008ICMLAn object-oriented representation for efficient reinforcement learning.Carlos Diuk, Andre Cohen, Michael L. Littman
2008ICMLKnows what it knows: a framework for self-aware learning.Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman, Thomas J. Walsh
2008ICMLAn analysis of linear models, linear value-function approximation, and feature selection for reinforcement learning.Ronald Parr, Lihong Li, Gavin Taylor, Christopher Painter-Wakefield, Michael L. Littman
2008ICMLDemocratic approximation of lexicographic preference models.Fusun Yaman, Thomas J. Walsh, Michael L. Littman, Marie desJardins
2008ISAIMEfficient Value-Function Approximation via Online Linear Regression.Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman
2008UAICORL: A Continuous-state Offset-dynamics Reinforcement Learner.Emma Brunskill, Bethany R. Leffler, Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman, Nicholas Roy
2008UAIA Polynomial-time Nash Equilibrium Algorithm for Repeated Stochastic Games.Enrique Munoz de Cote, Michael L. Littman
2007AAAIEfficient Reinforcement Learning with Relocatable Action Models.Bethany R. Leffler, Michael L. Littman, Timothy Edmunds
2007AAAIEfficient Structure Learning in Factored-State MDPs.Alexander L. Strehl, Carlos Diuk, Michael L. Littman
2007ICMLAnalyzing feature generation for value-function approximation.Ronald Parr, Christopher Painter-Wakefield, Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman
2006AAAITargeting Specific Distributions of Trajectories in MDPs.David L. Roberts, Mark J. Nelson, Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael Mateas, Michael L. Littman
2006ICMLPAC model-free reinforcement learning.Alexander L. Strehl, Lihong Li, Eric Wiewiora, John Langford, Michael L. Littman
2006ICMLExperience-efficient learning in associative bandit problems.Alexander L. Strehl, Chris Mesterharm, Michael L. Littman, Haym Hirsh
2006ISAIMTowards a Unified Theory of State Abstraction for MDPs.Lihong Li, Thomas J. Walsh, Michael L. Littman
2006UAIAn Efficient Optimal-Equilibrium Algorithm for Two-player Game Trees.Michael L. Littman, Nishkam Ravi, Arjun Talwar, Martin Zinkevich
2006UAIIncremental Model-based Learners With Formal Learning-Time Guarantees.Alexander L. Strehl, Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman
2005AAAILazy Approximation for Solving Continuous Finite-Horizon MDPs.Lihong Li, Michael L. Littman
2005AAAIActivity Recognition from Accelerometer Data.Nishkam Ravi, Nikhil Dandekar, Preetham Mysore, Michael L. Littman
2005ICMLA theoretical analysis of Model-Based Interval Estimation.Alexander L. Strehl, Michael L. Littman
2004AAAIAn Instance-Based State Representation for Network Repair.Michael L. Littman, Nishkam Ravi, Eitan Fenson, Richard E. Howard
2004ICMLAPlanning with predictive state representations.Michael R. James, Satinder Singh, Michael L. Littman
2004ICTAIAn Empirical Evaluation of Interval Estimation for Markov Decision Processes.Alexander L. Strehl, Michael L. Littman
2003COLTTutorial: Learning Topics in Game-Theoretic Decision Making.Michael L. Littman
2003ICMLLearning Predictive State Representations.Satinder Singh, Michael L. Littman, Nicholas K. Jong, David Pardoe, Peter Stone
2003RANLPCombining independent modules in lexical multiple-choice problems.Peter D. Turney, Michael L. Littman, Jeffrey Bigham, Victor Shnayder
2002ICMLModeling Auction Price Uncertainty Using Boosting-based Conditional Density Estimation.Robert E. Schapire, Peter Stone, David A. McAllester, Michael L. Littman, Jnos A. Csirik
2001ICMLFriend-or-Foe Q-learning in General-Sum Games.Michael L. Littman
2001UAIGraphical Models for Game Theory.Michael J. Kearns, Michael L. Littman, Satinder Singh
2000AAAIReinforcement Learning for Algorithm Selection.Michail G. Lagoudakis, Michael L. Littman
2000AAAITowards Approximately Optimal Poker.Jiefu Shi, Michael L. Littman
2000ICMLApproximate Dimension Equalization in Vector-based Information Retrieval.Fan Jiang, Michael L. Littman
2000ICMLAlgorithm Selection using Reinforcement Learning.Michail G. Lagoudakis, Michael L. Littman
1999AAAIPROVERB: The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist.Greg A. Keim, Noam M. Shazeer, Michael L. Littman, Sushant Agarwal, Catherine M. Cheves, Joseph Fitzgerald, Jason Grosland, Fan Jiang, Shannon Pollard, Karl Weinmeister
1999AAAIInitial Experiments in Stochastic Satisfiability.Michael L. Littman
1999AAAISolving Crosswords with PROVERB.Michael L. Littman, Greg A. Keim, Noam M. Shazeer
1999AAAIContingent Planning Under Uncertainty via Stochastic Satisfiability.Stephen M. Majercik, Michael L. Littman
1999AAAISolving Crossword Puzzles as Probabilistic Constraint Satisfaction.Noam M. Shazeer, Michael L. Littman, Greg A. Keim
1998AAAIUsing Caching to Solve Larger Probabilistic Planning Problems.Stephen M. Majercik, Michael L. Littman
1998ICMLLearning a Language-Independent Representation for Terms from a Partially Aligned Corpus.Michael L. Littman, Fan Jiang, Greg A. Keim
1997AAAISpeeding Safely: Multi-Criteria Optimization in Probabilistic Planning.Michael S. Fulkerson, Michael L. Littman, Greg A. Keim
1997AAAIProbabilistic Propositional Planning: Representations and Complexity.Michael L. Littman
1997UAIIncremental Pruning: A Simple, Fast, Exact Method for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.Anthony R. Cassandra, Michael L. Littman, Nevin Lianwen Zhang
1997UAIThe Complexity of Plan Existence and Evaluation in Probabilistic Domains.Judy Goldsmith, Michael L. Littman, Martin Mundhenk
1996ICMLA Generalized Reinforcement-Learning Model: Convergence and Applications.Michael L. Littman, Csaba Szepesvri
1995ICMLLearning Policies for Partially Observable Environments: Scaling Up.Michael L. Littman, Anthony R. Cassandra, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
1995KIPartially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Artificial Intelligence.Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman, Anthony R. Cassandra
1995UAIOn the Complexity of Solving Markov Decision Problems.Michael L. Littman, Thomas L. Dean, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
1994AAAIActing Optimally in Partially Observable Stochastic Domains.Anthony R. Cassandra, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman
1994ICMLMarkov Games as a Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.Michael L. Littman
1993GroupAn interface for navigating clustered document sets returned by queries.Robert B. Allen, Pascal Obry, Michael L. Littman
1992CSCWSupporting Informal Communication via Ephemeral Interest Groups.Laurence Brothers, James D. Hollan, Jakob Neilsen, Scott Stornetta, Steven P. Abney, George W. Furnas, Michael L. Littman