Selected Publications

Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games

Max Rudolph*, Nathan Lichtle*, Sobhan Mohammadpour*, Alexandre Bayen, J. Zico Kolter, Amy Zhang, Gabriele Farina, Eugene Vinitsky, Samuel Sokota

ICLR 2026
RLC 2025-CoCoMARL Workshop, Oral

paper / code / exploitability library / game demo

Generalization of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Policies via Awareness and Communication of Capabilities

Max Rudolph*, Pierce Howell*, Reza Torbati, Kevin Fu, Harish Ravichandar

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023

paper / code / project page

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation

Max Rudolph, Sonia Chernova, Harish Ravichandar

In Proc. of The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021

paper / code

Range Limited Coverage Control using Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams

Max Rudolph, Sean Wilson, Magnus Egerstedt

In Proc. of The International Conference in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.

paper / code

RL Zero: Zero-Shot Language to Behaviors without any Supervision

Harshit Sikchi*, Siddhant Agarwal*, Pranaya Jajoo*, Samyak Parajuli*, Caleb Chuck*, Max Rudolph*, Peter Stone, Amy Zhang, Scott Niekum

NeurIPS 2025

paper / project page

Learning Action-based Representations Using Invariance

Max Rudolph*, Caleb Chuck*, Kevin Black*, Misha Lvovsky, Scott Niekum, Amy Zhang

Reinforcement Learning Conference, 2024

paper / code

Robot Air Hockey: A Manipulation Testbed for Robot Learning with Reinforcement Learning

Caleb Chuck*, Carl Qi*, Michael Joseph Munje*, Shuozhe Li*, Max Rudolph*, Chang Shi*, Siddhant Agarwal*, Harshit Sikchi*, Abhinav Peri, Sarthak Dayal, Evan Kuo, Kavan Mehta, Anthony Wang, Peter Stone, Amy Zhang, Scott Niekum

paper

Generalization of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Policies via Awareness and Communication of Capabilities

Max Rudolph*, Pierce Howell*, Reza Torbati, Kevin Fu, Harish Ravichandar

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023

paper / code / project page

Rethinking Sim2Real: Lower Fidelity Simulation Leads to Higher Sim2Real Transfer in Navigation

Joanne Truong, Max Rudolph, Naoki Yokoyama, Sonia Chernova, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022
CoRL, 2022– Sim-to-Real Robot Learning: Locomotion and Beyond Workshop, Spotlight

paper

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation

Max Rudolph, Sonia Chernova, Harish Ravichandar

In Proc. of The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021

paper / code

Range Limited Coverage Control using Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams

Max Rudolph, Sean Wilson, Magnus Egerstedt

In Proc. of The International Conference in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.

paper / code