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Danijar Hafner is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, and a student researcher at Google Research, Brain Team and the Vector Institute. He holds a Masters of Research from University College London. Featured References A deep learning framework for neuroscience Blake A. Richards, Timothy P. Lillicrap , Philippe Beaudoin, Yoshua Bengio, Rafal Bogacz, Amelia Christensen, Claudia Clopath, Rui Ponte Costa, Archy de Berker, Surya Ganguli, Colleen J. Gillon , Danijar Hafner, Adam Kepecs, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Peter Latham , Grace W. Lindsay, Kenneth D. Miller , Richard Naud , Christopher C. Pack, Panayiota Poirazi , Pieter Roelfsema , João Sacramento, Andrew Saxe, Benjamin Scellier, Anna C. Schapiro , Walter Senn, Greg Wayne, Daniel Yamins, Friedemann Zenke, Joel Zylberberg, Denis Therien, Konrad P. Kording Learning Latent Dynamics for Planning from Pixels Danijar Hafner, Timothy Lillicrap, Ian Fischer, Ruben Villegas, David Ha, Honglak Lee, James Davidson Dream to Control: Learning Behaviors by Latent Imagination Danijar Hafner, Timothy Lillicrap, Jimmy Ba, Mohammad Norouzi Planning to Explore via Self-Supervised World Models Ramanan Sekar, Oleh Rybkin, Kostas Daniilidis, Pieter Abbeel, Danijar Hafner, Deepak Pathak Additional ReferencesMastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model Schrittwieser et al Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Silver et al Shaping Belief States with Generative Environment Models for RL Gregor et al Model-Based Active Exploration Shyam et al Errata [Robin] Around 1:37 I say "some ... world models get confused by random noise". I meant "some curiosity formulations", not "world models"
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