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Breaking down global barriers to access
This week, we welcomed our biggest and most geographically diverse cohort of DeepMind scholars yet. We’re excited to reflect on the journey so far, share more on the next chapter of the DeepMind...
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Research
Fast reinforcement learning through the composition of behaviours
Imagine if you had to learn how to chop, peel and stir all over again every time you wanted to learn a new recipe. In many machine learning systems, agents often have to learn entirely from...
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Impact
Traffic prediction with advanced Graph Neural Networks
By partnering with Google, DeepMind is able to bring the benefits of AI to billions of people all over the world. From reuniting a speech-impaired user with his original voice, to helping users...
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
The scientific community has galvanised in response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, building on decades of basic research characterising this virus family. Labs at the forefront of the outbreak...
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RL Unplugged: Benchmarks for Offline Reinforcement Learning
We propose a benchmark called RL Unplugged to evaluate and compare offline RL methods. RL Unplugged includes data from a diverse range of domains including games (e.g., Atari benchmark) and...
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Applying for technical roles
It’s no secret that the gender gap still exists within STEM. Despite a slight increase in recent years, studies show that women only make up about a quarter of the overall STEM workforce in the...
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dm_control: Software and Tasks for Continuous Control
The dm_control software package is a collection of Python libraries and task suites for reinforcement learning agents in an articulated-body simulation. A MuJoCo wrapper provides convenient...
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Acme: A new framework for distributed reinforcement learning
Acme is a framework for building readable, efficient, research-oriented RL algorithms. At its core Acme is designed to enable simple descriptions of RL agents that can be run at various scales of...
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Using AI to predict retinal disease progression
Vision loss among the elderly is a major healthcare issue: about one in three people have some vision-reducing disease by the age of 65. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common...
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Simple Sensor Intentions for Exploration
In this paper we focus on a setting in which goal tasks are defined via simple sparse rewards, and exploration is facilitated via agent-internal auxiliary tasks. We introduce the idea of simple...
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Learning to Segment Actions from Observation and Narration
We apply a generative segmental model of task structure, guided by narration, to action segmentation in video. We focus on unsupervised and weakly-supervised settings where no action labels are...
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Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
Specification gaming is a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome. We have all had experiences with specification gaming, even if...
