PhD student Yeonju Ro received the 2024 IBM PhD Fellowship award in December with an endowment of $40,000.

In the past five years, Isler headed research for Samsung AI Center in New York, where he helped develop AI robots for household use. On top of teaching, Isler will continue his research at UT and ...

Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.

My research interests are in the area of machine learning for speech, language, and sound processing. I am particularly interested in multimodality and unsupervised ...

Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion. Nate Kohl and Peter Stone.

In reinforcement learning (RL), a reward function that aligns exactly with a task's true performance metric is often sparse. For example, a true task metric might encode a reward of 1 upon success and ...

Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030. Peter Stone, Rodney Brooks, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ryan Calo, Oren Etzioni, Greg Hager, Julia Hirschberg, Shivaram ...

Learning Perceptual Hallucination for Multi-Robot Navigation in Narrow Hallways. Jinsoo Park, Xuesu Xiao, Garrett Warnell, Harel Yedidsion, and Peter Stone. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE ...

TEXPLORE: Real-Time Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Robots. Todd Hester and Peter Stone. Machine Learning, 90(3):385–429, 2013.

In RoboCup, the problem of quickly and accurately processing visual data continues to pose a significant challenge. The Aldebaran Nao, currently used by the Standard Platform League, has two cameras ...

Though computers have surpassed humans at many tasks, especially computationally intensive ones, there are many tasks for which human expertise remains necessary and/or useful. For such tasks, it is ...