no code implementations • 28 Sep 2021 • Valentin Dalibard, Max Jaderberg
Our experiments show that FIRE PBT is able to outperform PBT on the ImageNet benchmark and match the performance of networks that were trained with a hand-tuned learning rate schedule.
1 code implementation • 27 Jul 2021 • Open Ended Learning Team, Adam Stooke, Anuj Mahajan, Catarina Barros, Charlie Deck, Jakob Bauer, Jakub Sygnowski, Maja Trebacz, Max Jaderberg, Michael Mathieu, Nat McAleese, Nathalie Bradley-Schmieg, Nathaniel Wong, Nicolas Porcel, Roberta Raileanu, Steph Hughes-Fitt, Valentin Dalibard, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki
The resulting space is exceptionally diverse in terms of the challenges posed to agents, and as such, even measuring the learning progress of an agent is an open research problem.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2020 • Adam Stooke, Valentin Dalibard, Siddhant M. Jayakumar, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Max Jaderberg
We employ a temporal hierarchy, using a slow-ticking recurrent core to allow information to flow more easily over long time spans, and three fast-ticking recurrent cores with connections designed to create an information asymmetry.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Gauthier Gidel, Brendan Tracey, Karl Tuyls, Shayegan Omidshafiei, David Balduzzi, Max Jaderberg
This paper investigates the geometrical properties of real world games (e. g. Tic-Tac-Toe, Go, StarCraft II).
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2019 • Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Simon Osindero, Razvan Pascanu, Max Jaderberg
The work "Loss Landscape Sightseeing with Multi-Point Optimization" (Skorokhodov and Burtsev, 2019) demonstrated that one can empirically find arbitrary 2D binary patterns inside loss surfaces of popular neural networks.
5 code implementations • ICML 2020 • Emilio Parisotto, H. Francis Song, Jack W. Rae, Razvan Pascanu, Caglar Gulcehre, Siddhant M. Jayakumar, Max Jaderberg, Raphael Lopez Kaufman, Aidan Clark, Seb Noury, Matthew M. Botvinick, Nicolas Heess, Raia Hadsell
Harnessing the transformer's ability to process long time horizons of information could provide a similar performance boost in partially observable reinforcement learning (RL) domains, but the large-scale transformers used in NLP have yet to be successfully applied to the RL setting.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2019 • Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Razvan Pascanu, Simon Osindero, Siddhant M. Jayakumar, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Max Jaderberg
The transfer of knowledge from one policy to another is an important tool in Deep Reinforcement Learning.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2019 • Ang Li, Ola Spyra, Sagi Perel, Valentin Dalibard, Max Jaderberg, Chenjie Gu, David Budden, Tim Harley, Pramod Gupta
Population Based Training (PBT) is a recent approach that jointly optimizes neural network weights and hyperparameters which periodically copies weights of the best performers and mutates hyperparameters during training.
no code implementations • 23 Jan 2019 • David Balduzzi, Marta Garnelo, Yoram Bachrach, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Julien Perolat, Max Jaderberg, Thore Graepel
Zero-sum games such as chess and poker are, abstractly, functions that evaluate pairs of agents, for example labeling them `winner' and `loser'.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2018 • Max Jaderberg, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Iain Dunning, Luke Marris, Guy Lever, Antonio Garcia Castaneda, Charles Beattie, Neil C. Rabinowitz, Ari S. Morcos, Avraham Ruderman, Nicolas Sonnerat, Tim Green, Louise Deason, Joel Z. Leibo, David Silver, Demis Hassabis, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Thore Graepel
Recent progress in artificial intelligence through reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great success on increasingly complex single-agent environments and two-player turn-based games.
no code implementations • ICML 2018 • Wojciech Czarnecki, Siddhant Jayakumar, Max Jaderberg, Leonard Hasenclever, Yee Whye Teh, Nicolas Heess, Simon Osindero, Razvan Pascanu
We introduce Mix and match (M&M) – a training framework designed to facilitate rapid and effective learning in RL agents that would be too slow or too challenging to train otherwise. The key innovation is a procedure that allows us to automatically form a curriculum over agents.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2018 • Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Siddhant M. Jayakumar, Max Jaderberg, Leonard Hasenclever, Yee Whye Teh, Simon Osindero, Nicolas Heess, Razvan Pascanu
(2) We further show that M&M can be used successfully to progress through a curriculum of architectural variants defining an agents internal state.
9 code implementations • 27 Nov 2017 • Max Jaderberg, Valentin Dalibard, Simon Osindero, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Jeff Donahue, Ali Razavi, Oriol Vinyals, Tim Green, Iain Dunning, Karen Simonyan, Chrisantha Fernando, Koray Kavukcuoglu
Neural networks dominate the modern machine learning landscape, but their training and success still suffer from sensitivity to empirical choices of hyperparameters such as model architecture, loss function, and optimisation algorithm.
1 code implementation • 20 Jun 2017 • Karl Moritz Hermann, Felix Hill, Simon Green, Fumin Wang, Ryan Faulkner, Hubert Soyer, David Szepesvari, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Max Jaderberg, Denis Teplyashin, Marcus Wainwright, Chris Apps, Demis Hassabis, Phil Blunsom
Trained via a combination of reinforcement and unsupervised learning, and beginning with minimal prior knowledge, the agent learns to relate linguistic symbols to emergent perceptual representations of its physical surroundings and to pertinent sequences of actions.
8 code implementations • 16 Jun 2017 • Peter Sunehag, Guy Lever, Audrunas Gruslys, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Vinicius Zambaldi, Max Jaderberg, Marc Lanctot, Nicolas Sonnerat, Joel Z. Leibo, Karl Tuyls, Thore Graepel
We study the problem of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning with a single joint reward signal.
Ranked #1 on SMAC+ on Off_Superhard_parallel
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +2
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2017 • Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Simon Osindero, Max Jaderberg, Grzegorz Świrszcz, Razvan Pascanu
In many cases we only have access to input-output pairs from the ground truth, however it is becoming more common to have access to derivatives of the target output with respect to the input - for example when the ground truth function is itself a neural network such as in network compression or distillation.
1 code implementation • ICML 2017 • Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Simon Osindero, Tom Schaul, Nicolas Heess, Max Jaderberg, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu
We introduce FeUdal Networks (FuNs): a novel architecture for hierarchical reinforcement learning.
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
1 code implementation • ICML 2017 • Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Grzegorz Świrszcz, Max Jaderberg, Simon Osindero, Oriol Vinyals, Koray Kavukcuoglu
When training neural networks, the use of Synthetic Gradients (SG) allows layers or modules to be trained without update locking - without waiting for a true error gradient to be backpropagated - resulting in Decoupled Neural Interfaces (DNIs).
3 code implementations • 16 Nov 2016 • Max Jaderberg, Volodymyr Mnih, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Tom Schaul, Joel Z. Leibo, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu
We also introduce a novel mechanism for focusing this representation upon extrinsic rewards, so that learning can rapidly adapt to the most relevant aspects of the actual task.
5 code implementations • ICML 2017 • Max Jaderberg, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Simon Osindero, Oriol Vinyals, Alex Graves, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu
Training directed neural networks typically requires forward-propagating data through a computation graph, followed by backpropagating error signal, to produce weight updates.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2016 • Danilo Jimenez Rezende, S. M. Ali Eslami, Shakir Mohamed, Peter Battaglia, Max Jaderberg, Nicolas Heess
A key goal of computer vision is to recover the underlying 3D structure from 2D observations of the world.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2016 • Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Malcolm Reynolds, Frederic Besse, David Pfau, Max Jaderberg, Marc Lanctot, Daan Wierstra
In this work we introduce a differentiable version of the Compositional Pattern Producing Network, called the DPPN.
45 code implementations • NeurIPS 2015 • Max Jaderberg, Karen Simonyan, Andrew Zisserman, Koray Kavukcuoglu
Convolutional Neural Networks define an exceptionally powerful class of models, but are still limited by the lack of ability to be spatially invariant to the input data in a computationally and parameter efficient manner.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2014 • Max Jaderberg, Karen Simonyan, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
We develop a representation suitable for the unconstrained recognition of words in natural images: the general case of no fixed lexicon and unknown length.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2014 • Max Jaderberg, Karen Simonyan, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
In this work we present an end-to-end system for text spotting -- localising and recognising text in natural scene images -- and text based image retrieval.
Ranked #15 on Scene Text Detection on ICDAR 2013
1 code implementation • 9 Jun 2014 • Max Jaderberg, Karen Simonyan, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
In this work we present a framework for the recognition of natural scene text.
Ranked #37 on Scene Text Recognition on SVT
no code implementations • 15 May 2014 • Max Jaderberg, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
The focus of this paper is speeding up the evaluation of convolutional neural networks.