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National Ranking
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Overview

Daan Wierstra is affiliated with DeepMind in the United Kingdom. Their work spans the field of computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence, statistical and nonlinear physics, computer vision and pattern recognition, as well as computer science applications.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Teaching and Learning Programming

Wierstra's recent papers demonstrate engagement with problems in scheduling, embodied agents, and scalability in simulated environments. Notable publications include:

  • "Understanding the Impact of Value Selection Heuristics in Scheduling Problems," 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Scaling Instructable Agents Across Many Simulated Worlds," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "SIMA 2: A Generalist Embodied Agent for Virtual Worlds," 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in Wierstra's work include:

  • Ryan Faulkner
  • SIMA Team
  • Maria Abi Raad
  • Frederic Besse
  • Adrian Bolton

Wierstra's publications are primarily found in arXiv, a platform known for preprints and early dissemination of research findings. This venue features three of their recorded publications.

The combination of Wierstra's research topics and publication record indicates a focus on integrating machine learning techniques with complex systems, particularly in environments requiring autonomous decision-making and instruction following. Their work also touches upon programming education within the context of artificial intelligence advancements.

Best Publications

  • Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    Volodymyr Mnih;Koray Kavukcuoglu;David Silver;Andrei A. Rusu

  • Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning

    Timothy P. Lillicrap;Jonathan J. Hunt;Alexander Pritzel;Nicolas Heess

  • Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Volodymyr Mnih;Koray Kavukcuoglu;David Silver;Alex Graves

  • Matching networks for one shot learning

    Oriol Vinyals;Charles Blundell;Timothy Lillicrap;Koray Kavukcuoglu

  • Stochastic Backpropagation and Approximate Inference in Deep Generative Models

    Danilo Jimenez Rezende;Shakir Mohamed;Daan Wierstra

  • Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks

    Peter W. Battaglia;Jessica B. Hamrick;Victor Bapst;Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez

  • Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithms

    David Silver;Guy Lever;Nicolas Heess;Thomas Degris

  • Weight Uncertainty in Neural Network

    Charles Blundell;Julien Cornebise;Koray Kavukcuoglu;Daan Wierstra

  • DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network For Image Generation

    Karol Gregor;Ivo Danihelka;Alex Graves;Danilo Rezende

  • Weight Uncertainty in Neural Networks

    Charles Blundell;Julien Cornebise;Koray Kavukcuoglu;Daan Wierstra

  • Meta-learning with memory-augmented neural networks

    Adam Santoro;Sergey Bartunov;Matthew Botvinick;Daan Wierstra

  • PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks

    Chrisantha Fernando;Dylan Banarse;Charles Blundell;Yori Zwols

  • Natural Evolution Strategies

    D. Wierstra;T. Schaul;J. Peters;J. Schmidhuber

  • Natural evolution strategies

    Daan Wierstra;Tom Schaul;Tobias Glasmachers;Yi Sun

  • Neural scene representation and rendering

    S. M. Ali Eslami;Danilo Jimenez Rezende;Frederic Besse;Fabio Viola

  • One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks

    Adam Santoro;Sergey Bartunov;Matthew Botvinick;Daan Wierstra

  • Training Recurrent Networks by Evolino

    Jürgen Schmidhuber;Daan Wierstra;Matteo Gagliolo;Faustino Gomez

  • Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Sébastien Racanière;Theophane Weber;David P. Reichert;Lars Buesing

  • A System for Robotic Heart Surgery that Learns to Tie Knots Using Recurrent Neural Networks

    H. Mayer;F. Gomez;D. Wierstra;I. Nagy

  • One-shot generalization in deep generative models

    Danilo J. Rezende;Shakir Mohamed;Ivo Danihelka;Karol Gregor

  • Deep AutoRegressive Networks

    Karol Gregor;Ivo Danihelka;Andriy Mnih;Charles Blundell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Schmidhuber
Jürgen Schmidhuber King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Danilo Jimenez Rezende
Danilo Jimenez Rezende DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Tom Schaul
Tom Schaul DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Oriol Vinyals
Oriol Vinyals DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Charles Blundell
Charles Blundell DeepMind (United Kingdom)
David Silver
David Silver DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Timothy P. Lillicrap
Timothy P. Lillicrap University College London
Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis Google (United States)
Nicolas Heess
Nicolas Heess DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Koray Kavukcuoglu
Koray Kavukcuoglu DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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