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16033
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Overview

Edward Grefenstette is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and primarily works in the field of Computer Science, focusing on Artificial Intelligence. Their published work spans several subfields including Computer Science Applications, Management Science and Operations Research, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and General Health Professions.

Their main research topics highlight areas such as Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Topic Modeling, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Data Stream Mining Techniques, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), and Advanced Graph Neural Networks.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Edward Grefenstette include:

  • Tim Rocktäschel
  • Minqi Jiang
  • Robert Kirk
  • Jack Parker-Holder
  • Heinrich Küttler

Their research has been published mainly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Royal Society Open Science

Selected recent publications include:

  • "A Survey of Zero-shot Generalisation in Deep Reinforcement Learning" (2023, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research)
  • "Differentiable Reasoning on Large Knowledge Bases and Natural Language" (2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  • "Learning with AMIGo: Adversarially Motivated Intrinsic Goals" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "The NetHack Learning Environment" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Learning Reasoning Strategies in End-to-End Differentiable Proving" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))

Best Publications

  • A Convolutional Neural Network for Modelling Sentences

    Nal Kalchbrenner;Edward Grefenstette;Phil Blunsom

  • Teaching machines to read and comprehend

    Karl Moritz Hermann;Tomáš Kočiský;Edward Grefenstette;Lasse Espeholt

  • Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory

    Alex Graves;Greg Wayne;Malcolm Reynolds;Tim Harley

  • Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention

    Tim Rocktäschel;Edward Grefenstette;Karl Moritz Hermann;Tomáš Ko iský;Tomáš Ko iský

  • Reasoning about Entailment with Neural Attention

    Tim Rocktäschel;Edward Grefenstette;Karl Moritz Hermann;Tomáš Kočiský

  • The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge

    Tomáš Kočiský;Jonathan Schwarz;Phil Blunsom;Chris Dyer

  • Learning Explanatory Rules from Noisy Data

    Richard Evans;Edward Grefenstette

  • Latent Predictor Networks for Code Generation

    Wang Ling;Phil Blunsom;Edward Grefenstette;Karl Moritz Hermann

  • Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning

    Edward Grefenstette;Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

  • Learning to transduce with unbounded memory

    Edward Grefenstette;Karl Moritz Hermann;Mustafa Suleyman;Phil Blunsom

  • Discovering Discrete Latent Topics with Neural Variational Inference

    Yishu Miao;Edward Grefenstette;Phil Blunsom

  • A Survey of Reinforcement Learning Informed by Natural Language

    Jelena Luketina;Nantas Nardelli;Nantas Nardelli;Gregory Farquhar;Gregory Farquhar;Jakob N. Foerster

  • Latent Predictor Networks for Code Generation

    Wang Ling;Edward Grefenstette;Karl Moritz Hermann;Tomáš Kočiský

  • Analysing Mathematical Reasoning Abilities of Neural Models

    David Saxton;Edward Grefenstette;Felix Hill;Pushmeet Kohli

  • A Survey of Zero-shot Generalisation in Deep Reinforcement Learning

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  • Learning to Compose Words into Sentences with Reinforcement Learning

    Dani Yogatama;Phil Blunsom;Chris Dyer;Edward Grefenstette

  • Multi-Step Regression Learning for Compositional Distributional Semantics

    E. Grefenstette;G. Dinu;Y. Zhang;M. Sadrzadeh

  • Generalized Inner Loop Meta-Learning

    Edward Grefenstette;Brandon Amos;Denis Yarats;Phu Mon Htut

  • Learning to Understand Goal Specifications by Modelling Reward

    Dzmitry Bahdanau;Felix Hill;Jan Leike;Edward Hughes

  • Lambek vs. Lambek: Functorial vector space semantics and string diagrams for Lambek calculus

    Bob Coecke;Edward Grefenstette;Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

  • Can Neural Networks Understand Logical Entailment

    Richard Evans;David Saxton;David Amos;Pushmeet Kohli

  • The NetHack Learning Environment

    Heinrich Küttler;Nantas Nardelli;Alexander H. Miller;Roberta Raileanu

  • Learning Explanatory Rules from Noisy Data (Extended Abstract)

    Richard Evans;Edward Grefenstette

Frequent Co-Authors

Phil Blunsom
Phil Blunsom University of Oxford
Tim Rocktäschel
Tim Rocktäschel University College London
Pushmeet Kohli
Pushmeet Kohli DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Felix Hill
Felix Hill Google (United States)
Chris Dyer
Chris Dyer Google (United States)
Sebastian Riedel
Sebastian Riedel University College London
Jakob Foerster
Jakob Foerster University of Oxford
Stephen Pulman
Stephen Pulman University of Oxford
Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark Cambridge Quantum Computing
Peter W. Battaglia
Peter W. Battaglia DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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