Publications

Refereed Conferences

1. Monte Carlo Tree Search With Iteratively Refining State Abstractions

   Samuel Sokota, Caleb Ho, Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, J Zico Kolter

   NeurIPS 2021

2. Marginal Utility for Planning in Continuous and Large Discrete Action Spaces

   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Levi H. S. Lelis, Michael Bowling

   NeurIPS 2020

3. Action Selection for Hammer Shots in Curling

   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Robert Holte, Michael Bowling

   IJCAI 2016

Refereed Journals

1. High-dimensional Reinforcement Learning For Optimization and Control of Ultracold Quantum Gases

   Nicholas Milson, Arina Tashchilina, Tian Ooi, Anna Czarnecka, Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Lindsay J LeBlanc

   Machine Learning: Science and Technology

2. Motivation in a MOOC: a Probabilistic Analysis of Online Learners’ Basic Psychological Needs

   Tracy Durksen, Man-Wai Chu, Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Amanda Radil, Lia Daniels

   Social Psychology of Education

Workshops

1. Measuring the Solution Strength of Learning Agents in Adversarial Perfect Information Games

   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Nathan Sturtevant, Michael Bowling

   AAAI-RLG 2021

Theses

1. Action Selection for Hammer Shots in Curling: Optimization of Non-convex Continous Actions With Stochastic Action Outcomes

   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad

   University of Alberta