Dr Paulo Rauber
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Interests
I am a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at Queen Mary University of London. Before becoming a lecturer, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Swiss AI lab working on reinforcement learning under the supervision of Jürgen Schmidhuber.
I believe that intelligence should be defined as a measure of the ability of an agent to achieve goals in a wide range of environments, which makes reinforcement learning an excellent framework to study many challenges that intelligent agents are bound to face.
My current research is focused on developing principled but scalable Bayesian reinforcement learning methods that address the most significant of these challenges: exploration, planning, and generalization.
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI

Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
2023
Posterior Sampling for Deep Reinforcement LearningSasso R, Conserva M and
Rauber P International Conference on Machine Learning. vol. 202, 30042-30061.
01-01-20232022
Hardness in Markov Decision Processes: Theory and PracticeConserva M and
Rauber P Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
24-10-2022
Recurrent Neural-Linear Posterior Sampling
for Nonstationary Contextual BanditsRamesh A,
Rauber P, Conserva M and Schmidhuber J
Neural Computation,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press vol. 34, 1-41.
09-09-2022
Hardness in Markov Decision Processes: Theory and PracticeConserva M and
Rauber P Neural Information Processing Systems. vol. 35
01-01-20222021
Reinforcement Learning in Sparse-Reward Environments with Hindsight Policy GradientsRauber P, Ummadisingu A, Mutz F and Schmidhuber J
Neural Computation,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (Mit Press) 13-05-2021