Francisco S. Melo

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2006-2024
Publications (10 Years): 111

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Miguel Faria, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
"Guess what I'm doing": Extending legibility to sequential decision tasks. Artif. Intell. 330 (2024)
Pedro P. Santos, Diogo S. Carvalho, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
The impact of data distribution on Q-learning with function approximation. Mach. Learn. 113 (9) (2024)
Pedro P. Santos, Diogo S. Carvalho, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Pedro A. Santos, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo
Centralized Training with Hybrid Execution in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. AAMAS (2024)
Rustam Zayanov, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes
Interactively Teaching an Inverse Reinforcement Learner with Limited Feedback. ICAART (1) (2024)
João G. Ribeiro, Gonçalo Rodrigues, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
TEAMSTER: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Ad Hoc Teamwork (Abstract Reprint). AAAI (2024)
Bernardo Esteves, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo
NeuralThink: Algorithm Synthesis that Extrapolates in General Tasks. CoRR (2024)
Gonçalo Querido, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Learning to Perceive in Deep Model-Free Reinforcement Learning. AAMAS (2023)
Bernardo Esteves, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo
Pre-training with Augmentations for Efficient Transfer in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning. EPIA (1) (2023)
Diogo S. Carvalho, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro A. Santos
Theoretical Remarks on Feudal Hierarchies and Reinforcement Learning. ECAI (2023)
Gonçalo Querido, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Learning to Perceive in Deep Model-Free Reinforcement Learning. CoRR (2023)
Rustam Zayanov, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes
Interactively Teaching an Inverse Reinforcement Learner with Limited Feedback. CoRR (2023)
João G. Ribeiro, Cassandro Martinho, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Making Friends in the Dark: Ad Hoc Teamwork Under Partial Observability. ECAI (2023)
João G. Ribeiro, Gonçalo Rodrigues, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
TEAMSTER: Model-based reinforcement learning for ad hoc teamwork. Artif. Intell. 324 (2023)
Diogo S. Carvalho, Pedro A. Santos, Francisco S. Melo
Multi-Bellman operator for convergence of Q-learning with linear function approximation. CoRR (2023)
Filipa Correia, Joana Campos, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork. Int. J. Soc. Robotics 15 (1) (2023)
João G. Ribeiro, Cassandro Martinho, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Making Friends in the Dark: Ad Hoc Teamwork Under Partial Observability. CoRR (2023)
Miguel Faria, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
"Guess what I'm doing": Extending legibility to sequential decision tasks. CoRR (2022)
Ramona Merhej, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Francisco C. Santos
Cooperation and Learning Dynamics under Wealth Inequality and Diversity in Individual Risk. J. Artif. Intell. Res. 74 (2022)
Miguel Vasco, Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Leveraging hierarchy in multimodal generative models for effective cross-modality inference. Neural Networks 146 (2022)
Fábio Vital, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Perceive, Represent, Generate: Translating Multimodal Information to Robotic Motion Trajectories. CoRR (2022)
Pedro P. Santos, Diogo S. Carvalho, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Pedro A. Santos, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo
Centralized Training with Hybrid Execution in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. CoRR (2022)
Miguel Vasco, Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Leveraging Hierarchy in Multimodal Perception for Robust Reinforcement Learning Agents. AAMAS (2022)
João G. Ribeiro, Cassandro Martinho, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Assisting Unknown Teammates in Unknown Tasks: Ad Hoc Teamwork under Partial Observability. CoRR (2022)
Ramona Merhej, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Mohamed Chetouani, Francisco C. Santos
Learning Collective Action under Risk Diversity. CoRR (2022)
Petra Poklukar, Miguel Vasco, Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Danica Kragic
Geometric Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning. ICML (2022)
Ramona Merhej, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Mohamed Chetouani, Francisco C. Santos
Cooperation and Learning Dynamics under Risk Diversity and Financial Incentives. AAMAS (2022)
Petra Poklukar, Miguel Vasco, Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Danica Kragic
GMC - Geometric Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning. CoRR (2022)
Fábio Vital, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Perceive, Represent, Generate: Translating Multimodal Information to Robotic Motion Trajectories. IROS (2022)
Francisco S. Melo, Plinio Moreno
Socially Reactive Navigation Models for Mobile Robots. ICARSC (2022)
Kim Baraka, Marta Couto, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Manuela Veloso
"Sequencing Matters": Investigating Suitable Action Sequences in Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy. Frontiers Robotics AI 9 (2022)
Carla Guerra, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes
FIT: Using Feature Importance to Teach Classification Tasks to Unknown Learners. EPIA (2022)
Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes
Teaching Multiple Inverse Reinforcement Learners. Frontiers Artif. Intell. 4 (2021)
Ali H. Kordia, Francisco S. Melo
Compound Movement Recognition Using Dynamic Movement Primitives. EPIA (2021)
Bernardo Esteves, Francisco S. Melo
Revisiting "Recurrent World Models Facilitate Policy Evolution". EPIA (2021)
Carla Guerra, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes
Interactive Teaching with Groups of Unknown Bayesian Learners. AIED (2) (2021)
Miguel Vasco, Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
How to Sense the World: Leveraging Hierarchy in Multimodal Perception for Robust Reinforcement Learning Agents. CoRR (2021)
Ana Salta, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo
A Game AI Competition to Foster Collaborative AI Research and Development. IEEE Trans. Games 13 (4) (2021)
Ricardo Quinteiro, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro A. Santos
Limited depth bandit-based strategy for Monte Carlo planning in continuous action spaces. CoRR (2021)
João G. Ribeiro, Miguel Faria, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Helping People on the Fly: Ad Hoc Teamwork for Human-Robot Teams. EPIA (2021)
Pedro Ildefonso, Pedro Remédios, Rui Silva, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Manuela Veloso
Exploiting Symmetry in Human Robot-Assisted Dressing Using Reinforcement Learning. EPIA (2021)
Ramona Merhej, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Francisco C. Santos
Cooperation between Independent Reinforcement Learners under Wealth Inequality and Collective Risks. AAMAS (2021)
Ali H. Kordia, Francisco S. Melo
Movement recognition and prediction using DMPs. ICRA (2021)
Guilherme S. Varela, Pedro P. Santos, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
A Methodology for the Development of RL-Based Adaptive Traffic Signal Controllers. CoRR (2021)
Miguel Faria, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Understanding Robots: Making Robots More Legible in Multi-Party Interactions. RO-MAN (2021)
Carla Guerra, Francisco S. Melo, Manuel Lopes
Teaching Unknown Learners to Classify via Feature Importance. AAMAS (2021)
Pedro P. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Alberto Sardinha, Diogo S. Carvalho
Understanding the Impact of Data Distribution on Q-learning with Function Approximation. CoRR (2021)
Pedro M. Santos, João G. Ribeiro, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
Ad Hoc Teamwork in the Presence of Non-stationary Teammates. EPIA (2021)
Ana Salta, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo
A Game AI Competition to foster Collaborative AI research and development. CoRR (2020)
Filipa Correia, Samuel Gomes, Samuel Mascarenhas, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
The Dark Side of Embodiment - Teaming Up With Robots VS Disembodied Agents. Robotics: Science and Systems (2020)
Ali H. Kordia, Francisco S. Melo
An End-to-end Approach for Learning and Generating Complex Robot Motions from Demonstration. ICARCV (2020)
Rui Silva, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Manuela Veloso
Playing Games in the Dark: An Approach for Cross-Modality Transfer in Reinforcement Learning. AAMAS (2020)
Silvia Tulli, Marta Couto, Miguel Vasco, Elmira Yadollahi, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Explainable Agency by Revealing Suboptimality in Child-Robot Learning Scenarios. ICSR (2020)
Silvia Tulli, Sebastian Wallkötter, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo, Mohamed Chetouani
Learning from Explanations and Demonstrations: A Pilot Study. NL4XAI@INGL (2020)
Diogo Carvalho, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro Santos
A new convergent variant of Q-learning with linear function approximation. NeurIPS (2020)
Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
MHVAE: a Human-Inspired Deep Hierarchical Generative Model for Multimodal Representation Learning. CoRR (2020)
Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, Marta Couto, Manuela Veloso
Optimal action sequence generation for assistive agents in fixed horizon tasks. Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst. 34 (2) (2020)
Filipa Correia, Ana Paiva, Shruti Chandra, Samuel Mascarenhas, Julien Charles-Nicolas, Justin Gally, Diana Lopes, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Francisco S. Melo
Walk the Talk! Exploring (Mis)Alignment of Words and Deeds by Robotic Teammates in a Public Goods Game. RO-MAN (2019)
Francisco S. Melo, Alberto Sardinha, David Belo, Marta Couto, Miguel Faria, Anabela Farias, Hugo Gamboa, Cátia Jesus, Mithun Kinarullathil, Pedro U. Lima, Luís Luz, André Mateus, Isabel Melo, Plinio Moreno, Daniel Faustino de Noronha Osório, Ana Paiva, Jhielson M. Pimentel, João Rodrigues, Rodrigo Ventura
Project INSIDE: towards autonomous semi-unstructured human-robot social interaction in autism therapy. Artif. Intell. Medicine 96 (2019)
Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela Veloso
Interactive robots with model-based 'autism-like' behaviors. Paladyn J. Behav. Robotics 10 (1) (2019)
Filipa Correia, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Group Intelligence on Social Robots. HRI (2019)
Filipa Correia, Samuel Francisco Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Patrícia Arriaga, Iolanda Leite, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Exploring Prosociality in Human-Robot Teams. HRI (2019)
Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, David Martins de Matos, Ana Paiva, Tetsunari Inamura
Learning multimodal representations for sample-efficient recognition of human actions. CoRR (2019)
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Pedro Sequeira, Francisco S. Melo, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva
Empathic Robot for Group Learning: A Field Study. ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact. 8 (1) (2019)
Rui Silva, Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Manuela Veloso
Playing Games in the Dark: An approach for cross-modality transfer in reinforcement learning. CoRR (2019)
Kim Baraka, Marta Couto, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela Veloso
An Optimization Approach for Structured Agent-Based Provider/Receiver Tasks. AAMAS (2019)
Filipa Correia, Samuel Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Silvia Tulli, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
For The Record - A Public Goods Game For Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration. AAMAS (2019)
Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, David Martins de Matos, Ana Paiva, Tetsunari Inamura
Online Motion Concept Learning: A Novel Algorithm for Sample-Efficient Learning and Recognition of Human Actions. AAMAS (2019)
Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Pedro Sequeira, Francisco S. Melo, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva
Empathic Robot for Group Learning: A Field Study. CoRR (2019)
João Ribeiro, Francisco S. Melo, João Dias
Multi-task Learning and Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Reinforcement Learning. CoRR (2019)
Filipa Correia, Sofia Petisca, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
"I Choose... YOU!" Membership preferences in human-robot teams. Auton. Robots 43 (2) (2019)
Silvia Tulli, Filipa Correia, Samuel Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Effects of Agents' Transparency on Teamwork. EXTRAAMAS@AAMAS (2019)
Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva, Aude Billard
An ensemble inverse optimal control approach for robotic task learning and adaptation. Auton. Robots 43 (4) (2019)
Ana Salta, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo
Solving Motion and Action Planning for a Cooperative Agent Problem Using Geometry Friends. EPIA (1) (2019)
Rui Silva, Gabriele Farina, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela Veloso
A Theoretical and Algorithmic Analysis of Configurable MDPs. ICAPS (2019)
Manuel Lopes, Francisco S. Melo
Class Teaching for Inverse Reinforcement Learners. CoRR (2019)
Miguel Vasco, Francisco S. Melo, David Martins de Matos, Ana Paiva, Tetsunari Inamura
Learning Multimodal Representations for Sample-efficient Recognition of Human Actions. IROS (2019)
João Ribeiro, Francisco S. Melo, João Dias
Multi-task Learning and Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Reinforcement Learning. GCAI (2019)
Pablo Gómez Esteban, Daniel Hernández García, Hee Rin Lee, Pauline Chevalier, Paul Baxter, Cindy L. Bethel, Jainendra Shukla, Joan Oliver, Domenec Puig, Jason R. Wilson, Linda Tickle-Degnen, Madeleine Bartlett, Tony Belpaeme, Serge Thill, Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela Veloso, David Becerra, Maja J. Mataric, Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Jordi Albo-Canals, Gloria Beraldo, Emanuele Menegatti, Valentina De Tommasi, Roberto Mancin, Franca Benini, Zachary Henkel, Kenna Baugus, David C. May, Lucile Dupuy, Wendy A. Rogers, Ronit Feingold Polak, Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval, Jesús Favela, Michelle J. Johnson, Mayumi Mohan, Rochelle Mendonca
Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Robots in Therapy: Focusing on Autonomy and Ethical Challenges. CoRR (2018)
Tomás Alves, Sandra Gama, Francisco S. Melo
Towards Guidelines for Mental State Induction in First-Person Shooters. ICGI (2018)
Filipa Correia, Carla Guerra, Samuel Mascarenhas, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Exploring the Impact of Fault Justification in Human-Robot Trust. AAMAS (2018)
Francisco S. Melo, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva
A tutorial on machine learning for  interactive pedagogical systems. Int. J. Serious Games 5 (3) (2018)
Rui Silva, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela Veloso
What if the World Were Different? Gradient-Based Exploration for New Optimal Policies. GCAI (2018)
Tomás Alves, Sandra Gama, Francisco S. Melo
Flow adaptation in serious games for health. SeGAH (2018)
Francisco S. Melo, Carla Guerra, Manuel Lopes
Interactive Optimal Teaching with Unknown Learners. IJCAI (2018)
Filipa Correia, Samuel Mascarenhas, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Group-based Emotions in Teams of Humans and Robots. HRI (2018)
Vânia Mendonça, Francisco S. Melo, Luísa Coheur, Alberto Sardinha
A Conversational Agent Powered by Online Learning. AAMAS (2017)
Filipa Correia, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
A Social Robot as a Card Game Player. AIIDE (2017)
Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso
'Autistic Robots' for Embodied Emulation of Behaviors Typically Seen in Children with Different Autism Severities. ICSR (2017)
Stefan J. Witwicki, José Carlos Castillo, João V. Messias, Jesús Capitán, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro U. Lima, Manuela M. Veloso
Autonomous Surveillance Robots: A Decision-Making Framework for Networked Muiltiagent Systems. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 24 (3) (2017)
Rui Silva, Miguel Faria, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso
Adaptive indirect control through communication in collaborative human-robot interaction. IROS (2017)
Hang Yin, Francisco S. Melo, Aude Billard, Ana Paiva
Associate Latent Encodings in Learning from Demonstrations. AAAI (2017)
Miguel Faria, Rui Silva, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
"Me and you together" movement impact in multi-user collaboration tasks. IROS (2017)
Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso
Simulating Behaviors of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Through Reversal of the Autism Diagnosis Process. EPIA (2017)
Maria José Ferreira, Valentina Nisi, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Learning and Teaching Biodiversity Through a Storyteller Robot. ICIDS (2017)
Vânia Mendonça, Francisco S. Melo, Luísa Coheur, Alberto Sardinha
Online Learning for Conversational Agents. EPIA (2017)
Andre Santos, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Francisco S. Melo
Monte Carlo tree search experiments in hearthstone. CIG (2017)
Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, Manuela M. Veloso
Data-driven generation of synthetic behavioral feature vectors modeling children with autism spectrum disorders. ICDL-EPIROB (2017)
Filipa Correia, Sofia Petisca, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Tiago Ribeiro, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
Groups of humans and robots: Understanding membership preferences and team formation. Robotics: Science and Systems (2017)
Beatriz Bernardo, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Graça Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
An Interactive Tangram Game for Children with Autism. IVA (2016)
Francisco S. Melo, Alberto Sardinha
Ad hoc teamwork by learning teammates' task. Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst. 30 (2) (2016)

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