Hamid Reza Maei, an Iranian born physicist, computer scientist and software engineer. He holds a Ph.D. in 2011 from University of Alberta [1], where he was member of the reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence (RLAI) group [2] at the Department of Computing Science [3] to create reinforcement learning algorithms for large-scale problems and was involved in the development of a new family of temporal-difference learning algorithms suitable for value function approximation. The goal of these algorithms was to bring us closer to the development of a universal prediction learning algorithm suitable for learning experientially grounded knowledge of the world [4].
Hamid Reza Maei [5]

Selected Publications

• Richard Sutton, Csaba Szepesvári, Hamid Reza Maei (2008). A Convergent O(n) Algorithm for Off-policy Temporal-difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation, available as pdf (draft)
• Hamid Reza Maei, Csaba Szepesvári, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Doina Precup, David Silver, Richard Sutton (2009). Convergent Temporal-Difference Learning with Arbitrary Smooth Function Approximation. Accepted in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, Vancouver, BC. December 2009. MIT Press. pdf
• Richard Sutton, Hamid Reza Maei, Doina Precup, Shalabh Bhatnagar, David Silver, Csaba Szepesvári, Eric Wiewiora. (2009). Fast Gradient-Descent Methods for Temporal-Difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-09). pdf
• Hamid Reza Maei, Richard Sutton (2010). GQ(λ): A general gradient algorithm for temporal-difference prediction learning with eligibility traces. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
• Hamid Reza Maei (2011). Gradient Temporal-Difference Learning Algorithms. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta, advisor Richard Sutton, pdf

External Links

• Hamid Reza Maei - Google Scholar Citations
• Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Hamid Reza Maei

References

1. ^ Hamid Reza Maei (2011). Gradient Temporal-Difference Learning Algorithms. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta, advisor Richard Sutton, pdf
2. ^ Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence (RLAI)
3. ^ Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
4. ^ Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Hamid Reza Maei
5. ^ Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Hamid Reza Maei
6. ^ dblp: Hamid Reza Maei

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