Publications

2012
Sun, Y., Gomez, F., and Schmidhuber, J.
On the size of the online kernel sparsification dictionary
ICML'12, 2012. [pdf]

Sun, Y.
On the generation of representations for reinforcement learning
PhD thesis, IDSIA, SUPSI & USI, 2012. [pdf]

2011
Sun, Y., Gomez, F., Ring, M., and Schmidhuber, J.
Incremental basis construction from temporal difference error
ICML'11, pp.481-488, 2011. [pdf, slides]

Sun, Y., Gomez, F., and Schmidhuber, J.
Planning to be surprised: optimal Bayesian exploration in dynamic environments
AGI'11, pp.41-51, 2011. [pdf, slides]
A longer version can be found here.

Schaul, T., Sun, Y., Wierstra, D., Gomez, F., and Schmidhuber, J.
Curiosity-driven optimization
CEC'11, pp.1343-1349, 2011. [pdf]

Sun, Y., Gomez, F., Schaul, T., and Schmidhuber, J.
A linear time natural evolution strategy for non-separable functions
arXiv:1106.1998, 2011.

Wierstra, D., Schaul, T., Glasmachers, T., Sun, Y., and Schmidhuber, J.
Natural evolution strategies
arXiv:1106.4487, 2011.

2010
Sun, Y., Gomez, F., and Schmidhuber, J.
Improving asymptotic performance of Markov chain Monte-Carlo by inserting vortices
NIPS'10, pp.2235-2243, 2010. [pdf]

Glasmaches, T., Schaul, T., Sun, Y., and Schmidhuber, J.
Exponential natural evolution strategies
GECCO'10, pp.393-400, 2010. [pdf]

Sun, Y., Glasmachers, T., Schaul, T., and Schmidhuber, J.
Frontier search
AGI'10, 2010. [pdf, slides]
Best AGI paper (Kurzweil Prize 2010).

Antonucci, A., Sun, Y., Zaffalon, M., and de Campos, C.P.
Generalized Loopy 2U: a new algorithm for approximate inference in credal networks
IJAR, vol.51, pp.474-484, 2010.

Schaul, T., Bayer, J., Wierstra, D., Sun, Y., Felder, M., Sehnke, F., Rueckstiess, T., and Schmidhuber, J.
PyBrain
JMLR, vol.11, pp.743-746, 2010. [pdf]

Rückstieß, T., Sehnke, F., Schaul, T., Wierstra, D., Sun, Y., and Schmidhuber, J.
Exploring parameter space in reinforcement learning
Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics, vol.1, pp.14-24, 2010. [pdf]

2009
Sun, Y., Wierstra, D., Schaul, T., and Schmidhuber, J.
Stochastic search using the natural gradient
ICML'09, pp.1161-1168, 2009. [pdf]

Sun, Y., Wierstra, D., Schaul, T., and Schmidhuber, J.
Efficient natural evolution strategies
GECCO'09, pp.539-546, 2009. [pdf, slides]
Best Paper in GECCO 2009

Unkelbach, J., Sun, Y., and Schmidhuber, J.
An EM based training algorithm for recurrent neural networks
ICANN'09, pp.964-974, 2009. [pdf]

Corani, G., Campos, C., and Sun, Y.
A tree augmented classifier based on extreme imprecise Dirichlet model
ISIPTA'09, pp.89-98, 2009.

2008
Antonucci, A., Zaffalon, M., Sun, Y., and de Campos, C.P.
Generalized Loopy 2U: a new algorithm for approximate inference in credal networks
PGM'08, pp.17-24, 2008. [pdf]