Charles Blundell

Research Scientist, DeepMind

Joined

February 2017

Names

Charles Blundell

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

DeepMind (google.com)

2013 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2008 – 2013

Expertise

Deep learning

Present

Bayesian inference

Present

Deep reinforcement learning

Present

Publications

The CLRS-Text Algorithmic Reasoning Language Benchmark
Larisa Markeeva, Sean Michael McLeish, Borja Ibarz, Wilfried Bounsi, Olga Kozlova, Alex Vitvitskyi, Charles Blundell, Tom Goldstein, Avi Schwarzschild, Petar Veličković
- Accepted by DMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Improving fine-grained understanding in image-text pre-training
Ioana Bica, Anastasija Ilic, Matthias Bauer, Goker Erdogan, Matko Bošnjak, Christos Kaplanis, Alexey A. Gritsenko, Matthias Minderer, Charles Blundell, Razvan Pascanu, Jovana Mitrovic
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Unlocking the Power of Representations in Long-term Novelty-based Exploration
Steven Kapturowski, Alaa Saade, Daniele Calandriello, Charles Blundell, Pablo Sprechmann, Leopoldo Sarra, Oliver Groth, Michal Valko, Bilal Piot
- ALOE 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Unlocking the Power of Representations in Long-term Novelty-based Exploration
Alaa Saade, Steven Kapturowski, Daniele Calandriello, Charles Blundell, Pablo Sprechmann, Leopoldo Sarra, Oliver Groth, Michal Valko, Bilal Piot
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Neural Algorithmic Reasoning with Causal Regularisation
Beatrice Bevilacqua, Kyriacos Nikiforou, Borja Ibarz, Ioana Bica, Michela Paganini, Charles Blundell, Jovana Mitrovic, Petar Veličković
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Pushing the limits of self-supervised learning: Can we outperform supervised learning without labels?
Nenad Tomasev, Ioana Bica, Brian McWilliams, Lars Holger Buesing, Razvan Pascanu, Charles Blundell, Jovana Mitrovic
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
SemPPL: Predicting Pseudo-Labels for Better Contrastive Representations
Matko Bošnjak, Pierre Harvey Richemond, Nenad Tomasev, Florian Strub, Jacob C Walker, Felix Hill, Lars Holger Buesing, Razvan Pascanu, Charles Blundell, Jovana Mitrovic
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 02 Mar 2023
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Robust Exploration via Clustering-based Online Density Estimation
Alaa Saade, Steven Kapturowski, Daniele Calandriello, Charles Blundell, Michal Valko, Pablo Sprechmann, Bilal Piot
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Human-level Atari 200x faster
Steven Kapturowski, Víctor Campos, Ray Jiang, Nemanja Rakicevic, Hado van Hasselt, Charles Blundell, Adria Puigdomenech Badia
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 28 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Generalist Neural Algorithmic Learner
Borja Ibarz, Vitaly Kurin, George Papamakarios, Kyriacos Nikiforou, Mehdi Bennani, Róbert Csordás, Andrew Joseph Dudzik, Matko Bošnjak, Alex Vitvitskyi, Yulia Rubanova, Andreea Deac, Beatrice Bevilacqua, Yaroslav Ganin, Charles Blundell, Petar Veličković
- Published: 24 Nov 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- LoG 2022 Oral
- Readers: Everyone

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