Professor,
Dept. of Computing Science,
University of Alberta
DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence
Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii
Amii Fellow
Office: 345 Athabasca
Email (in domain ualberta.ca): mmueller
Activities and Interests
Research - main areas:
Monte Carlo and exact methods in game-tree search;
exploration in heuristic search and machine learning;
domain-independent classical planning;
algorithms in combinatorial game theory.
Research Group, current and previous members and visitors
Mar 21: Ehsan passed his MSc exam! Congratulations!
Jan-Apr: Martin is teaching a very large section of CMPUT 204 - Algorithms.
2023 News
Dec 8: Our paper "Monte Carlo Tree Search in the Presence of Transition Uncertainty" just accepted at AAAI-24! Congratulations Farnaz, Kiarash, Hongming and Ting!
Nov 28-30: our group has three talks at the (online) Advances in Computer Games conference - two papers accepted, and Martin's keynote on "Solution Methods for Two Player Games"
Oct 23: Two papers accepted for Advances in Computer Games 2023. "Stockfish or Leela Chess Zero? A Comparison Against Endgame Tablebases" started out as Quazi, Asmaul's course project for Martin's graduate course last term. "Solving NoGo on Small Rectangular Boards" was Henry's summer project. Congratulations Quazi, Asmaul and Henry!
Oct 23: Hongming passed his candidacy. Congratulations!
Sep-Dec: Martin is teaching CMPUT 455 again, with 215 students this year
Jul 18: A many-author paper about the RBC (Reconnaissance Blind Chess) competition at NeurIPS, including Timo's program, got accepted for PMLR. Gratulations Timo!
Jun 19: Jiuqi passed his MSc defense. Congratulations!
Jun 16: Hongming is presenting his ICLR paper "Replay Memory as An Empirical MDP: Combining Conservative Estimation with Experience Replay" at the AI Seminar
May 9: Two papers accepted for IEEE Conference on Games 2023,
"Deep Dive on Checkers Endgame Data" and
"Weighting Information Sets with Siamese Neural Networks in Reconnaissance Blind Chess".
Gratulations Jiuqi and Timo!
May 2: Group meetings are Wed 2pm in Ath 332.
Guests are always welcome. Contact
Hongming
for more information.
May 1: Welcome Mark Usmanov! He is joining our group over the summer
to work on an efficient solver for combinatorial games.
May 1: Grades submitted, ready to start summer research!
Apr 12: course project presentations on the last day of CMPUT 657.
Jan 20:
Our paper
"Replay Memory as An Empirical MDP: Combining Conservative Estimation with Experience Replay" was accepted to ICLR 2023. Congratulations Hongming!
Jan 9: Martin teaches a grad course CMPUT 657 this term