Assaf Hallak  

 



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   Main Field of Interest

[Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence)

 

  

 

 

 



 ### Publications

 

### 2025 

[RL-RC-DoT: A Block-level RL agent for Task-Aware Video Compression](/publication/2025-06_rl-rc-dot-block-level-rl-agent-task-aware-video-compression)

Uri Gadot, Assaf Shocher, [Shie Mannor](/person/shie-mannor), [Gal Chechik](/person/gal-chechik), [Assaf Hallak](/person/assaf-hallak)



[CVPR 2025](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Gadot_RL-RC-DoT_A_Block-level_RL_agent_for_Task-Aware_Video_Compression_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf)









[SoftTreeMax: Policy Gradient via tree expansion ](/index.php/publication/2025-02_softtreemax-policy-gradient-tree-expansion)

[Gal Dalal](/index.php/person/gal-dalal), [Assaf Hallak](/index.php/person/assaf-hallak), Gugan Thoppe, [Shie Mannor](/index.php/person/shie-mannor), [Gal Chechik](/index.php/person/gal-chechik)



[ICML 2025](https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/43515)









### 2022 

[On Covariate Shift of Latent Confounders in Imitation and Reinforcement Learning](/publication/2022-10_covariate-shift-latent-confounders-imitation-and-reinforcement-learning)

Guy Tenneholtz, [Assaf Hallak](/person/assaf-hallak), [Gal Dalal](/person/gal-dalal), [Shie Mannor](/person/shie-mannor), [Gal Chechik](/person/gal-chechik)



[ICLR](https://iclr.cc/)









### 2021 

[Improve Agents without Retraining: Parallel Tree Search with Off-Policy Correction](/publication/2021-10_improve-agents-without-retraining-parallel-tree-search-policy-correction)

[Gal Dalal](/person/gal-dalal), [Assaf Hallak](/person/assaf-hallak), [Steven Dalton](/person/steven-dalton), [Iuri Frosio](/person/iuri-frosio), [Shie Mannor](/person/shie-mannor), [Gal Chechik](/person/gal-chechik)



[Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021)](https://nips.cc/Conferences/2021/)









[Planning and Learning with Adaptive Lookahead](/index.php/publication/2021-01_planning-and-learning-adaptive-lookahead)

Aviv Rosenberg, [Assaf Hallak](/index.php/person/assaf-hallak), [Shie Mannor](/index.php/person/shie-mannor), [Gal Chechik](/index.php/person/gal-chechik), [Gal Dalal](/index.php/person/gal-dalal)



[Arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12403)