Shimon Whiteson

Professor Shimon Whiteson

Professor of Computer Science

Leaving date: 4th August 2026

Themes:

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

See Also:

• Whiteson Research Lab
• Google Scholar Profile
• Curriculum Vitae
• Oxford Machine Learning Reading Group

Interests

For more information, visit the Whiteson Research Lab.

Selected Publications

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• Deterministic and Discriminative Imitation (D2−Imitation): Revisiting Adversarial Imitation for Sample Efficiency

  Mingfei Sun‚ Sam Devlin‚ Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson

  In AAAI 2022: Proceedings of the Thirty−Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. February, 2022.

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• Truncated Emphatic Temporal Difference Methods for Prediction and Control

  Shangtong Zhang and Shimon Whiteson

  In Journal of Machine Learning Research. Vol. 23. No. 153. Pages 1–59. 2022.

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• Bayesian Bellman Operators

  Matthew Fellows‚ Kristian Hartikainen and Shimon Whiteson

  In NeurIPS 2021: Proceedings of the Thirty−fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. December, 2021.

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Activities

• Deep Reinforcement Learning

Past Students