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Nicolas Heess

Google (United States)ORCID

237

Works

26,909

Citations

56

h-index

115

i10-index

Research Topics

Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Robot Manipulation and Learning Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

Affiliations

Google (United States)2014–2025

Gatsby Charitable Foundation2012–2012

DeepMind (United Kingdom)2014–2025

Google (United Kingdom)2016–2024

Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience2013–2013

Top Works

Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning

Timothy Lillicrap,Jonathan J. Hunt,et al.

20166,769 citations

Human Pose and Action Recognition

Robotic Locomotion and Control

Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning

Timothy Lillicrap,Jonathan J. Hunt,et al.

20155,362 citations

Recurrent Models of Visual Attention

Volodymyr Mnih,Nicolas Heess,et al.

20142,273 citations

Deterministic policy gradient algorithms

David Silver,Guy Lever,et al.

20141,738 citations

Recurrent Models of Visual Attention

Volodymyr Mnih,Nicolas Heess,et al.

20141,000 citations

Emergence of Locomotion Behaviours in Rich Environments

Nicolas Heess,Dhruva Tb,et al.

2017668 citations

Leveraging Demonstrations for Deep Reinforcement Learning on Robotics Problems with Sparse Rewards

Matej Vecerík,Todd Hester,et al.

2017509 citations

Learning continuous control policies by stochastic value gradients

Nicolas Heess,Greg Wayne,et al.

2015286 citations

Distributed Distributional Deterministic Policy Gradients

Gabriel Barth-Maron,Matthew W. Hoffman,et al.

2018283 citations