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Thomas P. Cannon
dblp:393/1159
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
hierarchical reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Accelerating Task Generalisation with Multi-Level Skill Hierarchies · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › hierarchical reinforcement learning
option discovery |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Accelerating Task Generalisation with Multi-Level Skill Hierarchies · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › generalization in reinforcement learning
task generalization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Accelerating Task Generalisation with Multi-Level Skill Hierarchies · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
options framework · 0.9clustering · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Accelerating Task Generalisation with Multi-Level Skill HierarchiesabstractDeveloping reinforcement learning agents that can generalise effectively to new tasks is one of the main challenges in AI research. This paper introduces Fracture Cluster Options (FraCOs), a multi-level hierarchical reinforcement learning method designed to improve generalisation performance. FraCOs identifies patterns in agent behaviour and forms temporally-extended actions (options) based on the expected future usefulness of those patterns, enabling rapid adaptation to new tasks. In tabular settings, FraCOs demonstrates effective transfer and improves performance as the depth of the hierarchy increases. In several complex procedurally-generated environments, FraCOs consistently outperforms state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms, achieving superior results in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios. Thomas P. Cannon, Özgür Simsek |
ICLR | 1 |