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AlphaZero: Shedding new light on chess, shogi, and Go
In late 2017 we introduced AlphaZero, a single system that taught itself from scratch how to master the games of chess, shogi (Japanese chess), and Go, beating a world-champion program in each...
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Open sourcing TRFL: a library of reinforcement learning building blocks
Today we are open sourcing a new library of useful building blocks for writing reinforcement learning (RL) agents in TensorFlow. Named TRFL (pronounced ‘truffle’), it represents a collection of...
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Preserving Outputs Precisely while Adaptively Rescaling Targets
Multi-task learning - allowing a single agent to learn how to solve many different tasks - is a longstanding objective for artificial intelligence research. Recently, there has been a lot of...
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Objects that Sound
Visual and audio events tend to occur together: a musician plucking guitar strings and the resulting melody; a wine glass shattering and the accompanying crash; the roar of a motorcycle as it...
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Measuring abstract reasoning in neural networks
Neural network-based models continue to achieve impressive results on longstanding machine learning problems, but establishing their capacity to reason about abstract concepts has proven...
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DeepMind papers at ICML 2018
The 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning will take place in Stockholm, Sweden from 10-15 July. For those attending and planning the week ahead, we are sharing a schedule of DeepMind...
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Neural scene representation and rendering
There is more than meets the eye when it comes to how we understand a visual scene: our brains draw on prior knowledge to reason and to make inferences that go far beyond the patterns of light...
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Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
Recently, AI systems have mastered a range of video-games such as Atari classics Breakout and Pong. But as impressive as this performance is, AI still relies on the equivalent of thousands of...
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Navigating with grid-like representations in artificial agents
Most animals, including humans, are able to flexibly navigate the world they live in – exploring new areas, returning quickly to remembered places, and taking shortcuts. Indeed, these abilities...
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DeepMind papers at ICLR 2018
Between 30 April and 03 May, hundreds of researchers and engineers will gather in Vancouver, Canada, for the Sixth International Conference on Learning Representations.
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Learning to navigate in cities without a map
How did you learn to navigate the neighborhood of your childhood, to go to a friend’s house, to your school or to the grocery store? Probably without a map and simply by remembering the visual...
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Learning to write programs that generate images
Through a human’s eyes, the world is much more than just the images reflected in our corneas. For example, when we look at a building and admire the intricacies of its design, we can appreciate...