Preprint Papers

• Unimodal Training-Multimodal Prediction: Cross-modal Federated Learning with Hierarchical Aggregation.
  Rongyu Zhang, Xiaowei Chi, Guiliang Liu, Wenyi Zhang, Fangxin Wang. 2022.

All Publications

* indicates the corresponding author.

Year 2023

• Multi-Modal Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning from a Mixture of Demonstrations
  Guanren Qiao, Guiliang Liu*, Pascal Poupart, Zhiqiang Xu.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023.
• An Alternative to Variance: Gini Deviation for Risk-averse Policy Gradient.
  Yudong Luo, Guiliang Liu, Pascal Poupart, Yangchen Pan.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023.
• Benchmarking Constraint Inference in Inverse Reinforcement Learning.
  Guiliang Liu, Yudong Luo, Ashish Gaurav, Kasra Rezaee, Pascal Poupart.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023.
  [Paper (PDF)], [Slides], [Code],
• Learning Soft Constraints From Constrained Expert Demonstrations.
  Ashish Gaurav, Kasra Rezaee, Guiliang Liu, Pascal Poupart.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023.
  [Paper (PDF)],
• NTS-NOTEARS: Learning Nonparametric DBNs With Prior Knowledge.
  Xiangyu Sun, Oliver Schulte, Guiliang Liu, Pascal Poupart.
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2023.
  [Paper (PDF)],

Year 2022 and Before

• Uncertainty-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Risk-Sensitive Player Evaluation in Sports Game.
  Guiliang Liu, Yudong Luo, Oliver Schulte, Pascal Poupart.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022.
  [Paper (PDF)], [Slides], [Code (To be released)],
• Learning Object-Oriented Dynamics for Planning from Text.
  Guiliang Liu, Ashutosh Adhikari, Amir-massoud Farahmand, Pascal Poupart.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022.
  [Paper (PDF)], [Slides], [Code],
• Distributional Reinforcement Learning with Monotonic Splines.
  Yudong Luo, Guiliang Liu, Haonan Duan, Oliver Schulte, Pascal Poupart.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022.
  [Paper (PDF)], [Code],
• Learning Tree Interpretation from Object Representation for Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  Guiliang Liu, Xiangyu Sun, Oliver Schulte, Pascal Poupart.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021.
  [Paper (PDF)], [Slides], [Code],
• Learning Agent Representations for Ice Hockey.
  Guiliang Liu, Oliver Schulte, Pascal Poupart, Mike Rudd, Mehrsan Javan.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020.
  [Paper (PDF)], [Slides], [Video], [Code ],
• An Advantage Actor-Critic Algorithm with Confidence Exploration for Open Information Extraction.
  Guiliang Liu, Xu Li, Mingming Sun, Ping Li.
  SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2020.
  [Paper (PDF)]
• Extracting Knowledge from Web Text with Monte Carlo Tree Search.
  Guiliang Liu, Xu Li, Jiakang Wang, Mingming Sun, Ping Li.
  The ACM Web Conference (WWW) 2020.
  [Paper (PDF)], [Slides]
• Cracking the Black Box: Distilling Deep Sports Analytics.
  Xiangyu Sun, Jack Davis, Oliver Schulte, Guiliang Liu.
  SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2020.
  [Paper (PDF)], [arXiv], [Slides], [ Video], [Code]
• Deep soccer analytics: Learning an action-value function for evaluating soccer players.
  Guiliang Liu, Yudong Luo, Oliver Schulte, and Tarak Kharrat.
  ECML-PKDD 2020 Journal Track, published at Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD).
  [Paper (PDF)], [Slides],
• Deep Reinforcement Learning in Ice Hockey for Context-Aware Player Evaluation.
  Guiliang Liu, Oliver Schulte.
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2018.
  [Paper (PDF)], [arXiv], [Code], [Slides],
• Toward Interpretable Deep Reinforcement Learning with Linear Model U-Trees.
  Guiliang Liu, Oliver Schulte, Wang Zhu,
  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Database (ECML-PKDD) 2018.
  [Paper (PDF)], [arXiv], [Slides],