Adam White

Associate Professor, Computing Science, University of Alberta

Joined

October 2017

Names

Adam White (Preferred)

Adam M White

Adam M. White

Emails

****@ualberta.ca (Confirmed)

****@adamwhite.ca (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@rlcore.ai (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Associate Professor

Computing Science, University of Alberta (ualberta.ca)

2025 – Present

Assistant Professor

Computing Science, University of Alberta (ualberta.ca)

2019 – 2025

Research Scientist

Deepmind (google.com)

2017 – 2023

Postdoc

Indiana University (indiana.edu)

2015 – 2017

PhD student

University of Alberta (ualberta.ca)

2006 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Martha White

2010 – Present

PhD Advisor

rich Sutton

2004 – 2015

Expertise

deeplearning

2017 – Present

Robotics

2012 – Present

Reinforcement learning

2004 – Present

Publications

Investigating Action Encodings in Recurrent Neural Networks in Reinforcement Learning
Matthew Kyle Schlegel, Volodymyr Tkachuk, Adam White, Martha White
- 17 Jan 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
The In-Sample Softmax for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Chenjun Xiao, Han Wang, Yangchen Pan, Adam White, Martha White
- 12 Jan 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Comparing Direct and Indirect Temporal-Difference Methods for Estimating the Variance of the Return
Craig Sherstan, Dylan R. Ashley, Brendan Bennett, Kenny John Young, Adam White, Martha White, Richard S. Sutton
- 30 Sept 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
The In-Sample Softmax for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Chenjun Xiao, Han Wang, Yangchen Pan, Adam White, Martha White
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 notable top 25%
- Readers: Everyone
Greedy Actor-Critic: A New Conditional Cross-Entropy Method for Policy Improvement
Samuel Neumann, Sungsu Lim, Ajin George Joseph, Yangchen Pan, Adam White, Martha White
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 01 Mar 2023
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Goal-Space Planning with Subgoal Models
Chunlok Lo, Gabor Mihucz, Farzane Aminmansour, Adam White, Martha White
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Auxiliary task discovery through generate and test
Banafsheh Rafiee, Sina Ghiassian, Jun Jin, Richard S. Sutton, Jun Luo, Adam White
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Reward-Respecting Subtasks for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Richard S. Sutton, Marlos C. Machado, G. Zacharias Holland, David Szepesvari, Finbarr Timbers, Brian Tanner, Adam M White
- 14 Sept 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
The Cross-environment Hyperparameter Setting Benchmark for Reinforcement Learning
Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Raksha Kumaraswamy, Martha White, Adam M White
- 07 Jun 2021 (modified: 24 May 2023)
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Round 1)
- Readers: Everyone
Continual Auxiliary Task Learning
Matthew K McLeod, Chunlok Lo, Matthew Kyle Schlegel, Andrew Jacobsen, Raksha Kumaraswamy, Martha White, Adam M White
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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