Martin Müller
	Professor, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Amii Fellow Office: 345 Athabasca Email (in domain ualberta.ca): mmueller

Activities and Interests

• I am not accepting new graduate students.
  For applying to our department, please see Applications & Admissions on the Department of Computing Science web site.
• Research - main areas: Monte Carlo and exact methods in game-tree search; exploration in heuristic search and machine learning; algorithms in combinatorial game theory.
  • Research Group, current and previous members and visitors
• Publications of my research group.
• Some recent Talks from my group, on planning and games topics.
• List of Courses I have taught.
• Where I have lived and my work experience.
• Misc

Ongoing/Upcoming

• Jan-Jun 2025: I will be on a six month sabbatical.
• Attend Problem Solving Club! Come learn and practice your algorithms, programming and problem-solving. You can participate in the Alberta provincial contest, the Rocky Mountain Regionals, the North America Championship, and the ACM-ICPC world finals! In any case, you are guaranteed to have fun and learn a lot. You can also take Cmput 403 - Practical Algorithmics for credit.

2024 News

• Dec 19: A paper accepted for AAMAS 2025: β-DQN: Improving Deep Q-Learning By Evolving the Behavior. Congratulations Hongming!
• Dec 9: Taylor Folkersen has joined our group as a programmer/analyst, working on algorithms for combinatorial games. Welcome Taylor!
• Oct 22: Two papers accepted for CG 2024! Analysing KataGo: A Comparative Evaluation Against Perfect Play in the Game of Go and Solving Linear NoGo with Combinatorial Game Theory. Congratulations Asmaul and Henry!!
• Oct 6: Our journal paper A Distance-based Anomaly Detection Framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning was accepted for TMLR! Congratulations Hongming!
• Sep 25: Our paper Exploiting the Replay Memory Before Exploring the Environment: Enhancing Reinforcement Learning Through Empirical MDP Iteration was accepted for NeurIPS 2024! Congratulations Hongming!
• Sep 3 - Dec: teaching CMPUT 455
• Aug 8: Our paper Learning With Generalised Card Representations for "Magic: The Gathering" won best student paper award at the IEEE Conference on Games 2024! Congratulations Timo!
  
  
• Aug 8: Owen presents our paper Expected Work Search: Combining Win Rate and Proof Size Estimation at IJCAI 2024.
• Aug 6: Visit by recent MSc graduate Jiuqi Wang, now a PhD student at the University of Virginia.
• July: Recent PhD graduate Chenjun Xiao has joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen as an assistant professor! Congratulations Chenjun!
• Jun 30: Our paper "Neural Network-based Information Set Weighting for Playing Reconnaissance Blind Chess" was accepted for the IEEE Transactions on Games 2024! Congratulations Timo! This is an extended version of our CoG 2023 paper.
• Jun 30: My five year term as "DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence" has come to an end. A whole-hearted thank you to DeepMind for the honor and the funding!
• Jun 19: Our paper "Efficiently Training Neural Networks for Imperfect-Information Games by Sampling Information Sets" was accepted for KI 2024, the German AI conference. Congratulations Timo!
• June 6-28: Martin's Visit to Taiwan. Owen joined for part of the time. Stayed at Academia Sinica in Taipei, as guest of Ti-Rong Wu. We visited I-Chen Wu and his group at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu. I gave two talks, one at Academia Sinica on Rejwana's and Asmaul's research, and one at the Taiwanese Computer Game Association (TCGA) conference in Hualien, on seki in the game of Go. Owen gave a talk on EWS at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
• May 15: Owen passed his Candidacy exam! Congratulations!
• May 1: Our Department celebrated its 60th birthday today!
• Apr 24: Congratulations Owen on winning a NSERC PGS D award!
• Apr 17: Asmaul passed her MSc exam! Congratulations!
• Apr 16: Our paper "Expected Work Search: Combining Win Rate and Proof Size Estimation" was just accepted at IJCAI! Congratulations Owen and Ting!
• Apr 15: Our paper Learning With Generalised Card Representations for "Magic: The Gathering" was accepted for the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) 2024! Congratulations Timo!
• Apr 12: Last CMPUT 204 class
• Mar 21: Ehsan passed his MSc exam! Congratulations!
• Mar 4: Recent MSc graduate Zeyi Wang is in town, recruiting for his company Astrus
• Jan-Apr: Martin is teaching a very large section of CMPUT 204 - Algorithms.

• Old news (up to 2023)

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