2008
2009
Yi Sun, Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Juergen Schmidhuber, "Stochastic Search using the Natural Gradient", in Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'09), 2009. [pdf, slides]
Yi Sun, Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Juergen Schmidhuber, "Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies", in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'09), 2009. [pdf] Best Paper in GECCO 2009
Jan Unkelbach, Yi Sun, Juergen Schmidhuber, "An EM based training algorithm for recurrent neural networks", in Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'09), 2009. [pdf]
Alessandro Antonucci, Yi Sun, Marco Zaffalon and Cassio P. de Campos. "Generalized Loopy 2U: A New Algorithm for Approximate Inference in Credal Networks", in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR).
Giorgio Corani, Cassio Campos, Yi Sun, "A Tree Augmented Classifier Based on Extreme Imprecise Dirichlet Model", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Imprecise Probability (ISIPTA'09), 2009.
2010
Yi Sun, Tobias Glasmachers, Tom Schaul, Juergen Schmidhuber, "Frontier Search", in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI'10), 2010. [pdf] Best AGI Paper (Kurzweil Prize 2010)
Tom Schaul, Justin Bayer, Daan Wierstra, Yi Sun, Martin Felder, Frank Sehnke, Thomas R┨ckstieß and Juergen Schmidhuber, "PyBrain", in Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). [pdf]
Tobias Glasmaches, Tom Schaul, Yi Sun, Juergen Schmidhuber, "Exponential Natural Evolution Strategies", in Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'10), 2010. [pdf]
Thomas R┨ckstieß, Frank Sehnke, Tom Schaul, Daan Wierstra, Yi Sun, "Exploring Parameter Space in Reinforcement Learning", in Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 2010. [pdf]
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber, "Improving Asymptotic Performance of Markov Chain Monte-Carlo by Inserting Vortices", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'10), 2010. [pdf]
2011
Tom Schaul, Yi Sun, Daan Wierstra, Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber,
"Curiosity-Driven Optimization", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
(CEC'11), 2011. [pdf]
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Mark Ring, Juergen Schmidhuber,
"Incremental Basis Construction from Temporal Difference Error", in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'11), 2011. [pdf]
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber,
"Planning to Be Surprised: Optimal Bayesian Exploration in Dynamic Environments", in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI'11), 2011. [pdf]
Daan Wierstra, Tom Schaul, Tobias Glasmachers, Yi Sun, Juergen Schmidhuber, "Natural Evolution Strategies", arXiv:1106.4487v1.
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Tom Schaul, Juergen Schmidhuber, "A Linear Time Natural Evolution Strategy for Non-Separable Functions", arXiv:1106.1998v2.
An arxiv version of the report can be found here
2012
Yi Sun, Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber, "On the Size of the Online Kernel Sparsification Dictionary", to appear in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'12), 2012.