Publications

Refereed Conferences

1. Monte Carlo Tree Search With Iteratively Refining State Abstractions
   Samuel Sokota, Caleb Ho, Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, J Zico Kolter
   Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021

2. Marginal Utility for Planning in Continuous and Large Discrete Action Spaces
   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Levi H. S. Lelis, Michael Bowling
   Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020

3. Action Selection for Hammer Shots in Curling
   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad, Robert Holte, Michael Bowling
   International Joint Conferences on Aritificial Intelligence, 2016

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. Strengthening Integration Between Learning and Search for Planning
   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad
   University of Alberta

2. Action Selection for Hammer Shots in Curling: Optimization of Non-convex Continous Actions With Stochastic Action Outcomes
   Zaheen Farraz Ahmad
   University of Alberta