Steven James

Steven James

University of the Witwatersrand

H-index: 9

Africa-South Africa

About Steven James

Steven James, With an exceptional h-index of 9 and a recent h-index of 9 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of the Witwatersrand, specializes in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Counting Reward Automata: Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning Through The Exploitation of Reward Function Structure

MiDaS: A Large-Scale Minecraft Dataset for Non-Natural Image Benchmarking

Skill Machines: Temporal Logic Skill Composition in Reinforcement Learning

Overlooked Implications of the Reconstruction Loss for VAE Disentanglement

Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations

Hierarchically composing level generators for the creation of complex structures

Augmentative topology agents for open-ended learning

MinePlanner: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Planning in Large Minecraft Worlds

Steven James Information

University

Position

PhD Candidate

Citations(all)

404

Citations(since 2020)

386

Cited By

85

hIndex(all)

9

hIndex(since 2020)

9

i10Index(all)

9

i10Index(since 2020)

9

Email

University Profile Page

University of the Witwatersrand

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Steven James Skills & Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Reinforcement Learning

Top articles of Steven James

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Counting Reward Automata: Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning Through The Exploitation of Reward Function Structure

arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11364

Tristan Bester

Benjamin Rosman

Steven James

Geraud Nangue Tasse

2023/12/18

MiDaS: A Large-Scale Minecraft Dataset for Non-Natural Image Benchmarking

Journal of Electronic Imaging

David Torpey

Max Parkin

Jonah Alter

Richard Klein

Steven James

2024/1/1

Skill Machines: Temporal Logic Skill Composition in Reinforcement Learning

Geraud Nangue Tasse

Devon Jarvis

Steven James

Benjamin Rosman

2023/10/13

Overlooked Implications of the Reconstruction Loss for VAE Disentanglement

Nathan Michlo

Richard Klein

Steven James

2023

Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations

The International Journal of Robotics Research

Adam Pacheck

Steven James

George Konidaris

Hadas Kress-Gazit

2023/4

Hierarchically composing level generators for the creation of complex structures

IEEE Transactions on Games

Michael Beukman

Manuel Fokam

Marcel Kruger

Guy Axelrod

Muhammad Nasir

...

2023/7/21

Augmentative topology agents for open-ended learning

Muhammad Nasir

Michael Beukman

Steven James

Christopher Cleghorn

2023/7/15

MinePlanner: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Planning in Large Minecraft Worlds

arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.12891

William Hill

Ireton Liu

Anita De Mello Koch

Damion Harvey

George Konidaris

...

2023/12/20

Dynamics Generalisation in Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Context-Aware Policies

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Michael Beukman

Devon Jarvis

Richard Klein

Steven James

Benjamin Rosman

2024/2/13

LLMatic: Neural architecture search via large language models and quality-diversity optimization

arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01102

Muhammad U Nasir

Sam Earle

Julian Togelius

Steven James

Christopher Cleghorn

2023/6/1

Synthesizing Navigation Abstractions for Planning with Portable Manipulation Skills

Eric Rosen

Steven James

Sergio Orozco

Vedant Gupta

Max Merlin

...

2023/12/2

ROSARL: Reward-Only Safe Reinforcement Learning

arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00035

Geraud Nangue Tasse

Tamlin Love

Mark Nemecek

Steven James

Benjamin Rosman

2023/5/31

Towards Objective Metrics for Procedurally Generated Video Game Levels

arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.10334

Michael Beukman

Steven James

Christopher Cleghorn

2022/1/25

Accounting for the Sequential Nature of States to Learn Features for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.06000

Nathan Michlo

Devon Jarvis

Richard Klein

Steven James

2022/5/12

Autonomous Learning of Object-Centric Abstractions for High-Level Planning

Steven James

Benjamin Rosman

George Konidaris

2021/10/6

Learning Abstract and Transferable Representations for Planning

arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02092

Steven James

Benjamin Rosman

George Konidaris

2022/5/4

End-to-End Learning to Follow Language Instructions with Compositional Policies

Vanya Cohen

Geraud Nangue Tasse

Nakul Gopalan

Steven James

Ray Mooney

...

2022/11/15

Generalisation in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning through Logical Composition

Geraud Nangue Tasse

Steven James

Benjamin Rosman

2021/9/29

Combining Evolutionary Search with Behaviour Cloning for Procedurally Generated Content

Proceedings of 43rd Conference of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists

Nicholas Muir

Steven James

2022/7/18

Adaptive Online Value Function Approximation with Wavelets

Michael Beukman

Michael Mitchley

Dean Wookey

Steven James

George Konidaris

2022/4/22

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Co-Authors

H-index: 77
Julian Togelius

Julian Togelius

New York University

H-index: 46
George Konidaris

George Konidaris

Brown University

H-index: 34
Hadas Kress-Gazit

Hadas Kress-Gazit

Cornell University

H-index: 23
Benjamin Rosman

Benjamin Rosman

University of the Witwatersrand

H-index: 14
Terence L van Zyl

Terence L van Zyl

University of Johannesburg

H-index: 13
Christopher W Cleghorn

Christopher W Cleghorn

University of the Witwatersrand

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