Mehdi Mirza

Research Scientist, DeepMind

Joined

September 2016

Names

Mehdi Mirza (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@iro.umontreal.ca (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

DeepMind (google.com)

2016 – Present

PhD student

University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)

2011 – 2017

Internship

Google DeepMind (google.com)

2015 – 2015

Internship

Flickr, Yahoo (yahoo-inc.com)

2014 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Yoshua Bengio

2011 – 2016

PhD Advisor

Aaron Courville

2011 – 2016

Expertise

variational autoencoders

Present

unsupervised learning

Present

deep learning

Present

Publications

Evaluating Model-Based Planning and Planner Amortization for Continuous Control
Arunkumar Byravan, Leonard Hasenclever, Piotr Trochim, Mehdi Mirza, Alessandro Davide Ialongo, Yuval Tassa, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Nicolas Heess, Josh Merel, Martin Riedmiller
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Physically Embedded Planning Problems: New Challenges for Reinforcement Learning
Mehdi Mirza, Andrew Jaegle, Jonathan J. Hunt, Arthur Guez, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Alistair Muldal, Théophane Weber, Péter Karkus, Sébastien Racanière, Lars Buesing, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Nicolas Heess
- 2020 (modified: 06 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Tabula-Rasa: a Modular Reinforcement Learning Approach for Physically Embedded 3D Sokoban
Péter Karkus, Mehdi Mirza, Arthur Guez, Andrew Jaegle, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Lars Buesing, Nicolas Heess, Theophane Weber
- 2020 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
An Investigation of Model-Free Planning
Arthur Guez, Mehdi Mirza, Karol Gregor, Rishabh Kabra, Sébastien Racanière, Theophane Weber, David Raposo, Adam Santoro, Laurent Orseau, Tom Eccles, Greg Wayne, David Silver, Timothy P. Lillicrap
- 2019 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICML 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Unsupervised Predictive Memory in a Goal-Directed Agent
Greg Wayne, Chia-Chun Hung, David Amos, Mehdi Mirza, Arun Ahuja, Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska, Jack W. Rae, Piotr Mirowski, Joel Z. Leibo, Adam Santoro, Mevlana Gemici, Malcolm Reynolds, Tim Harley, Josh Abramson, Shakir Mohamed, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, David Saxton, Adam Cain, Chloe Hillier, David Silver et al. (4 additional authors not shown)
- 2018 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Probing Physics Knowledge Using Tools from Developmental Psychology
Luis Piloto, Ari Weinstein, Dhruva TB, Arun Ahuja, Mehdi Mirza, Greg Wayne, David Amos, Chia-Chun Hung, Matthew Botvinick
- 2018 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Optimizing Agent Behavior over Long Time Scales by Transporting Value
Chia-Chun Hung, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Josh Abramson, Yan Wu, Mehdi Mirza, Federico Carnevale, Arun Ahuja, Greg Wayne
- 2018 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Volodymyr Mnih, Adrià Puigdomènech Badia, Mehdi Mirza, Alex Graves, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Tim Harley, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu
- 2016 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICML 2016
- Readers: Everyone
Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions
Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain, Amjad Almahairi, Christof Angermüller, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Nicolas Ballas, Frédéric Bastien, Justin Bayer, Anatoly Belikov, Alexander Belopolsky, Yoshua Bengio, Arnaud Bergeron, James Bergstra, Valentin Bisson, Josh Bleecher Snyder, Nicolas Bouchard, Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Xavier Bouthillier, Alexandre de Brébisson, Olivier Breuleux et al. (92 additional authors not shown)
- 2016 (modified: 07 Oct 2025)
- CoRR 2016
- Readers: Everyone
EmoNets: Multimodal deep learning approaches for emotion recognition in video
Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Xavier Bouthillier, Pascal Lamblin, Çaglar Gülçehre, Vincent Michalski, Kishore Reddy Konda, Sébastien Jean, Pierre Froumenty, Yann N. Dauphin, Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Raul Chandias Ferrari, Mehdi Mirza, David Warde-Farley, Aaron C. Courville, Pascal Vincent, Roland Memisevic, Christopher J. Pal, Yoshua Bengio
- 2015 (modified: 01 Oct 2024)
- CoRR 2015
- Readers: Everyone

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