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James E. Kostas
Researcher, Amazon
Joined
July 2019
Names
James E. Kostas
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,
James Kostas
Emails
****@cs.umass.edu
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****@gmail.com
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Personal Links
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Career & Education History
Researcher
Amazon
(amazon.com)
2024
–
Present
PhD student
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(umass.edu)
2017
–
2025
Intern
Sony AI
(sony.com)
2023
–
2024
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coauthor
Georgios Theocharous
2021
–
Present
Coauthor
George Konidaris
2021
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Present
Coauthor
Martha White
2020
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Present
PhD Advisor
Philip Thomas
2017
–
Present
Expertise
LLMs
2024
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Present
NLP
2024
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Present
Reinforcement Learning
2017
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Present
Stochastic Networks for Reinforcement Learning
2017
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Present
Publications
The Cliff of Overcommitment with Policy Gradient Step Sizes
Emma Jordan
,
Samuel Neumann
,
James E. Kostas
,
Adam White
,
Philip S. Thomas
RLC 2024
Readers:
Everyone
Structural Credit Assignment in Neural Networks using Reinforcement Learning
Dhawal Gupta
,
Gabor Mihucz
,
Matthew Kyle Schlegel
,
James E. Kostas
,
Philip S. Thomas
,
Martha White
Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
NeurIPS 2021 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Asynchronous Coagent Networks
James Kostas
,
Chris Nota
,
Philip Thomas
2020 (modified: 05 Nov 2022)
ICML 2020
Readers:
Everyone
Learning Action Representations for Reinforcement Learning
Yash Chandak
,
Georgios Theocharous
,
James Kostas
,
Emma Jordan
,
Philip S. Thomas
2019 (modified: 29 Dec 2025)
ICML 2019
Readers:
Everyone
Classical Policy Gradient: Preserving Bellman's Principle of Optimality
Philip S. Thomas
,
Emma Jordan
,
Yash Chandak
,
Chris Nota
,
James Kostas
2019 (modified: 29 Dec 2025)
CoRR 2019
Readers:
Everyone
Co-Authors
Adam White
Chris Nota
Dhawal Gupta
Emma Jordan
Gabor Mihucz
Georgios Theocharous
Martha White
Matthew Kyle Schlegel
Philip S. Thomas
Philip Thomas
Samuel Neumann
Yash Chandak