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Shaobo Hou

4 accepted papers

2025

Generating Creative Chess Puzzles

NeurIPS 2025poster

While Generative AI rapidly advances in various domains, generating truly creative, aesthetic, and counter-intuitive outputs remains a challenge. This paper presents an approach to tackle these difficulties in the domain of chess puzzles. We start by benchmarking Generative AI architectures, and the…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Discovering Policies with DOMiNO: Diversity Optimization Maintaining Near Optimality

ICLR 2023poster

In this work we propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent that can discover complex behaviours in a rich environment with a simple reward function. We define diversity in terms of state-action occupancy measures, since policies with different occupancy measures visit different states on average. M…

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2021

Discovering a set of policies for the worst case reward

ICLR 2021spotlight

We study the problem of how to construct a set of policies that can be composed together to solve a collection of reinforcement learning tasks. Each task is a different reward function defined as a linear combination of known features. We consider a specific class of policy compositions which we ca…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2019

The Option Keyboard: Combining Skills in Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2019poster

The ability to combine known skills to create new ones may be crucial in the solution of complex reinforcement learning problems that unfold over extended periods. We argue that a robust way of combining skills is to define and manipulate them in the space of pseudo-rewards (or "cumulants"). Based o…

Cited by 122SourcePDFScholar