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We strive to create an environment conducive to many different types of research across many different time scales and levels of risk.
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Our researchers drive advancements in computer science through both fundamental and applied research.
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We regularly open-source projects with the broader research community and apply our developments to Google products.
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Publishing our work allows us to share ideas and work collaboratively to advance the field of computer science.
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We make products, tools, and datasets available to everyone with the goal of building a more collaborative ecosystem.
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Supporting the next generation of researchers through a wide range of programming.
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Zafarali Ahmed

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Machine Intelligence

Authored Publications

Google

InfoBot: Structured Exploration in ReinforcementLearning Using Information Bottleneck

Anirudh Goyal

Riashat Islam

Daniel Strouse

Zafarali Ahmed

Matthew Botvinick

Hugo Larochelle

Yoshua Bengio

Sergey Levine

ICLR (2019)

Understanding the impact of entropy on policy optimization

Zafarali Ahmed

Nicolas Le Roux

Mohammad Norouzi

Dale Schuurmans

ICML (2019)

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