Daan Wierstra

63.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
35 papers, 25.0k citations indexed

About

Daan Wierstra is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Daan Wierstra has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 25.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Daan Wierstra's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (10 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (10 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (7 papers). Daan Wierstra is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (10 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (10 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (7 papers). Daan Wierstra collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Daan Wierstra's co-authors include David Silver, Alex Graves, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Demis Hassabis, Georg Ostrovski, Martin Riedmiller, Stig Petersen, Volodymyr Mnih, Charles Beattie and Andrei A. Rusu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neural Computation and Journal of Machine Learning Research.

In The Last Decade

Daan Wierstra

34 papers receiving 24.1k citations

Hit Papers

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 2016 2015 2015 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daan Wierstra Switzerland 25 11.3k 5.4k 4.9k 4.6k 4.4k 35 25.0k
Martin Riedmiller Germany 26 10.2k 0.9× 4.4k 0.8× 4.3k 0.9× 4.3k 0.9× 3.7k 0.8× 90 23.2k
Ioannis Antonoglou United Kingdom 6 15.6k 1.4× 6.2k 1.1× 5.1k 1.1× 5.1k 1.1× 4.6k 1.0× 6 32.8k
Joel Veness Canada 11 10.6k 0.9× 4.0k 0.7× 3.5k 0.7× 4.5k 1.0× 3.6k 0.8× 23 21.5k
Koray Kavukcuoglu United States 25 15.6k 1.4× 5.9k 1.1× 4.7k 1.0× 7.7k 1.7× 4.3k 1.0× 35 35.5k
Andrei A. Rusu United Kingdom 10 10.4k 0.9× 4.0k 0.7× 3.6k 0.7× 4.4k 1.0× 3.5k 0.8× 10 21.4k
Georg Ostrovski United Kingdom 8 8.8k 0.8× 4.2k 0.8× 3.6k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 3.6k 0.8× 10 19.4k
Marc G. Bellemare United States 16 8.6k 0.8× 4.1k 0.8× 3.6k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 3.7k 0.8× 36 19.6k
Timothy Lillicrap United States 29 12.4k 1.1× 4.7k 0.9× 3.8k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 2.4k 0.5× 60 25.0k
Alex Graves United States 26 18.2k 1.6× 5.6k 1.0× 4.2k 0.9× 7.8k 1.7× 4.0k 0.9× 40 36.5k
Volodymyr Mnih United States 14 7.8k 0.7× 3.8k 0.7× 3.3k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 3.3k 0.8× 19 18.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Daan Wierstra

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daan Wierstra

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daan Wierstra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daan Wierstra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daan Wierstra based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Daan Wierstra. Daan Wierstra is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mott, A., Daniel Zoran, Mike Chrzanowski, Daan Wierstra, & Danilo Jimenez Rezende. (2018). S3TA: A Soft, Spatial, Sequential, Top-Down Attention Model. 1 indexed citations
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Racanière, Sébastien, Théophane Weber, David Reichert, et al.. (2017). Imagination-Augmented Agents for Deep Reinforcement Learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 30. 5690–5701. 49 indexed citations
3.
Chiappa, Silvia, Sébastien Racanière, Daan Wierstra, & Shakir Mohamed. (2017). Recurrent Environment Simulators. International Conference on Learning Representations. 9 indexed citations
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Santoro, Adam, Sergey Bartunov, Matthew Botvinick, Daan Wierstra, & Timothy Lillicrap. (2016). Meta-learning with memory-augmented neural networks. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1842–1850. 657 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lillicrap, Timothy, Jonathan J. Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, et al.. (2016). Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 4888 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gregor, Karol, Frederic Besse, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Ivo Danihelka, & Daan Wierstra. (2016). Towards Conceptual Compression. Neural Information Processing Systems. 29. 3549–3557. 45 indexed citations
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Gregor, Karol, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, & Daan Wierstra. (2016). Variational Intrinsic Control. International Conference on Learning Representations. 4 indexed citations
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Wierstra, Daan, et al.. (2016). Meta-Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 48. 3 indexed citations
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Rezende, Danilo Jimenez, Shakir Mohamed, Ivo Danihelka, Karol Gregor, & Daan Wierstra. (2016). One-Shot Generalization in Deep Generative Models. arXiv (Cornell University). 1521–1529. 32 indexed citations
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Blundell, Charles, Julien Cornebise, Koray Kavukcuoglu, & Daan Wierstra. (2015). Weight Uncertainty in Neural Network. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1613–1622. 363 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gregor, Karol, Ivo Danihelka, Alex Graves, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, & Daan Wierstra. (2015). DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network For Image Generation. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1462–1471. 478 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mnih, Volodymyr, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, et al.. (2015). Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature. 518(7540). 529–533. 17153 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rezende, Danilo Jimenez, Shakir Mohamed, & Daan Wierstra. (2014). Stochastic Back-propagation and Variational Inference in Deep Latent Gaussian Models.. arXiv (Cornell University). 30 indexed citations
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Rezende, Danilo Jimenez, Daan Wierstra, & Wulfram Gerstner. (2011). Variational Learning for Recurrent Spiking Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 24. 136–144. 22 indexed citations
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Sun, Yi, et al.. (2009). Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming Track. 1 indexed citations
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Wierstra, Daan, et al.. (2008). Natural Evolution Strategies. 152 indexed citations
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Wierstra, Daan, et al.. (2008). Natural Evolution Strategies. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 15(1). 3381–3387. 126 indexed citations
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Schmidhuber, Jürgen, Daan Wierstra, & Faustino Gomez. (2005). Evolino: hybrid neuroevolution / optimal linear search for sequence learning. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 853–858. 56 indexed citations
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Wierstra, Daan, et al.. (2005). Evolino: Hybrid Neuroevolution / Optimal Linear Search for Sequence Prediction. mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich). 18 indexed citations
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Wierstra, Daan & Marco Wiering. (2004). Utile distinction hidden Markov models. mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich). 108–108. 14 indexed citations

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