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Overview

Marcus Hutter is affiliated with DeepMind in the United Kingdom and specializes in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence. Their scholarly output encompasses a range of subfields including artificial intelligence, computational theory and mathematics, management science and operations research, statistical and nonlinear physics, and safety research.

Their research primarily covers topics such as reinforcement learning in robotics, machine learning and algorithms, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, neural networks and applications, evolutionary algorithms and applications, computability and logic related to AI algorithms, and advanced bandit algorithms research.

Hutter has contributed to a considerable number of publications, often collaborating with researchers such as Joel Veness, Elliot Catt, Michael K. Cohen, Grégoire Delétang, and Jordi Grau-Moya. These collaborations have resulted in multiple works across several reputable venues.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Marcus Hutter include:

  • Language Modeling Is Compression, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Formal Algorithms for Transformers, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward, 2022, AI Magazine
  • A rapid and efficient learning rule for biological neural circuits, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The main publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI Magazine, Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.

Best Publications

  • Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence

    Shane Legg;Marcus Hutter

  • Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability

    Marcus Hutter

  • A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence

    Shane Legg;Marcus Hutter

  • A New Local Distance-Based Outlier Detection Approach for Scattered Real-World Data

    Ke Zhang;Marcus Hutter;Huidong Jin

  • A Monte-Carlo AIXI approximation

    Joel Veness;Kee Siong Ng;Marcus Hutter;William Uther

  • Discriminative Hierarchical Rank Pooling for Activity Recognition

    Basura Fernando;Peter Anderson;Marcus Hutter;Stephen Gould

  • Robust feature selection by mutual information distributions

    Marco Zaffalon;Marcus Hutter

  • PAC bounds for discounted MDPs

    Tor Lattimore;Marcus Hutter

  • A Philosophical Treatise of Universal Induction

    Samuel Rathmanner;Marcus Hutter

  • On universal prediction and Bayesian confirmation

    Marcus Hutter

  • Fitness uniform selection to preserve genetic diversity

    M. Hutter

  • Universal Algorithmic Intelligence: A Mathematical Top→Down Approach

    Marcus Hutter;Marcus Hutter

  • AGI Safety Literature Review

    Tom Everitt;Gary Lea;Marcus Hutter

  • Fitness uniform optimization

    M. Hutter;S. Legg

  • The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems

    Marcus Hutter

  • Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy

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  • Bayesian DNA copy number analysis

    Paola M V Rancoita;Paola M V Rancoita;Marcus Hutter;Francesco Bertoni;Ivo Kwee

  • A Formal Measure of Machine Intelligence

    Shane Legg;Marcus Hutter

  • Count-Based Exploration in Feature Space for Reinforcement Learning

    Jarryd Martin;Suraj Narayanan Sasikumar;Tom Everitt;Marcus Hutter

  • Adaptive Online Prediction by Following the Perturbed Leader

    Marcus Hutter;Jan Poland

  • A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation

    J Veness;KS Ng;M Hutter;D Silver

  • Sequential Decisions based on Algorithmic Probability

    Marcus Hutter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Schmidhuber
Jürgen Schmidhuber King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Stephen Gould
Stephen Gould Australian National University
Rocco A. Servedio
Rocco A. Servedio Columbia University
David Silver
David Silver DeepMind (United Kingdom)
John W. Lloyd
John W. Lloyd University of Bristol
Scott Sanner
Scott Sanner University of Toronto
Francesco Bertoni
Francesco Bertoni Institute of Oncology Research
Michael Bowling
Michael Bowling University of Alberta
Marc G. Bellemare
Marc G. Bellemare Google (United States)
Paul M. B. Vitányi
Paul M. B. Vitányi Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

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