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BYOL-Explore: Exploration with Bootstrapped Prediction
We present BYOL-Explore, a conceptually simple yet general approach for curiosity-driven exploration in visually-complex environments. BYOL-Explore learns a world representation, the world...
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Unlocking High-Accuracy Differentially Private Image Classification through Scale
According to empirical evidence from prior works, utility degradation in DP-SGD becomes more severe on larger neural network models – including the ones regularly used to achieve the best...
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Bridging DeepMind research with Alphabet products
Today we caught up with Gemma Jennings, a product manager on the Applied team, who led a session on vision language models at the AI Summit, one of the world’s largest AI events for business.
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Advocating for the LGBTQ+ community in AI research
Research scientist, Kevin McKee, tells how his early love of science fiction and social psychology inspired his career, and how he’s helping advance research in ‘queer fairness’, support human-AI...
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Evaluating Multimodal Interactive Agents
In this paper, we assess the merits of these existing evaluation metrics and present a novel approach to evaluation called the Standardised Test Suite (STS). The STS uses behavioural scenarios...
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Dynamic language understanding: adaptation to new knowledge in parametric and semi-parametric models
To study how semi-parametric QA models and their underlying parametric language models (LMs) adapt to evolving knowledge, we construct a new large-scale dataset, StreamingQA, with human written...
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Company
Kyrgyzstan to King’s Cross: the star baker cooking up code
My day can vary, it really depends on which phase of the project I'm on. Let’s say we want to add a feature to our product – my tasks could range from designing solutions and working with the team...
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Building a culture of pioneering responsibly
When I joined DeepMind as COO, I did so in large part because I could tell that the founders and team had the same focus on positive social impact. In fact, at DeepMind, we now champion a term...
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Open-sourcing MuJoCo
In October 2021, we announced that we acquired the MuJoCo physics simulator, and made it freely available for everyone to support research everywhere. We also committed to developing and...
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From LEGO competitions to DeepMind's robotics lab
If you want to be at DeepMind, go for it. Apply, interview, and just try. You might not get it the first time but that doesn’t mean you can’t try again. I never thought DeepMind would accept me,...
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Emergent Bartering Behaviour in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
In our recent paper, we explore how populations of deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) agents can learn microeconomic behaviours, such as production, consumption, and trading of goods. We find...
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A Generalist Agent
Inspired by progress in large-scale language modelling, we apply a similar approach towards building a single generalist agent beyond the realm of text outputs. The agent, which we refer to as...
