David Silver

152.8k total citations · 15 hit papers
99 papers, 48.4k citations indexed

About

David Silver is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Silver has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 48.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 16 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 15 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in David Silver's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (50 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (26 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (15 papers). David Silver is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (50 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (26 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (15 papers). David Silver collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. David Silver's co-authors include Demis Hassabis, Ioannis Antonoglou, Arthur Guez, Daan Wierstra, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Timothy Lillicrap, Joel Veness, Dharshan Kumaran, Georg Ostrovski and Stig Petersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Silver

98 papers receiving 46.6k citations

Hit Papers

Human-level control through deep reinforcemen... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2015 2016 2017 2016 2016 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
David Silver United States 42 22.8k 8.8k 7.8k 7.8k 6.9k 99 48.4k
Demis Hassabis United Kingdom 52 20.7k 0.9× 7.1k 0.8× 5.6k 0.7× 7.2k 0.9× 5.0k 0.7× 77 51.2k
Koray Kavukcuoglu United States 25 15.6k 0.7× 5.9k 0.7× 4.7k 0.6× 7.7k 1.0× 4.3k 0.6× 35 35.5k
Sepp Hochreiter Austria 36 26.8k 1.2× 8.8k 1.0× 4.8k 0.6× 14.2k 1.8× 3.6k 0.5× 109 69.8k
Richard S. Sutton Canada 51 20.7k 0.9× 5.9k 0.7× 7.2k 0.9× 3.9k 0.5× 6.0k 0.9× 144 40.8k
Ioannis Antonoglou United Kingdom 6 15.6k 0.7× 6.2k 0.7× 5.1k 0.7× 5.1k 0.7× 4.6k 0.7× 6 32.8k
Marco Dorigo Belgium 73 22.8k 1.0× 5.7k 0.6× 5.4k 0.7× 6.6k 0.8× 12.9k 1.9× 354 53.2k
Jun Zhang China 103 17.8k 0.8× 7.3k 0.8× 4.1k 0.5× 4.0k 0.5× 4.4k 0.6× 2.7k 56.5k
Jürgen Schmidhuber Switzerland 56 43.5k 1.9× 14.2k 1.6× 7.6k 1.0× 23.5k 3.0× 5.4k 0.8× 240 104.9k
Alex Graves United States 26 18.2k 0.8× 5.6k 0.6× 4.2k 0.5× 7.8k 1.0× 4.0k 0.6× 40 36.5k
R.C. Eberhart United States 21 27.6k 1.2× 14.9k 1.7× 14.5k 1.9× 6.9k 0.9× 6.1k 0.9× 48 65.1k

Countries citing papers authored by David Silver

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Silver

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Silver

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Silver. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Silver 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 David Silver. David Silver 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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Hubert, Thomas, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, et al.. (2021). Learning and Planning in Complex Action Spaces. International Conference on Machine Learning. 4476–4486. 7 indexed citations
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Guez, Arthur, Fabio Viola, Théophane Weber, et al.. (2020). Value-driven Hindsight Modelling. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 12499–12509. 1 indexed citations
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Oh, Junhyuk, Matteo Hessel, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, et al.. (2020). Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 1060–1070. 1 indexed citations
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Zahavy, Tom, Zhongwen Xu, Vivek Veeriah, et al.. (2020). A Self-Tuning Actor-Critic Algorithm. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 20913–20924. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhongwen, Hado P. van Hasselt, Matteo Hessel, et al.. (2020). Meta-Gradient Reinforcement Learning with an Objective Discovered Online. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 15254–15264. 2 indexed citations
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Horgan, Dan, John Quan, David Budden, et al.. (2018). Distributed Prioritized Experience Replay. International Conference on Learning Representations. 56 indexed citations
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Silver, David, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, et al.. (2018). A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play. Science. 362(6419). 1140–1144. 1827 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dabney, Will, Georg Ostrovski, David Silver, & Rémi Munos. (2018). Implicit Quantile Networks for Distributional Reinforcement Learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 1096–1105. 19 indexed citations
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Silver, David, Hado van Hasselt, Matteo Hessel, et al.. (2017). The predictron: end-to-end learning and planning. International Conference on Machine Learning. 3191–3199. 25 indexed citations
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Silver, David, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison, et al.. (2016). Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. Nature. 529(7587). 484–489. 8793 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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Guez, Arthur, Nicolas Heess, David Silver, & Peter Dayan. (2014). Bayes-Adaptive Simulation-based Search with Value Function Approximation. UCL Discovery (University College London). 27. 451–459. 7 indexed citations
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Silver, David, Suman Jana, Dan Boneh, Eric Chen, & Collin Jackson. (2014). Password managers: attacks and defenses. USENIX Security Symposium. 449–464. 55 indexed citations
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Silver, David, et al.. (2013). Concurrent Reinforcement Learning from Customer Interactions. UCL Discovery (University College London). 924–932. 24 indexed citations
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Silver, David. (2012). Gradient Temporal Difference Networks. 117–130. 1 indexed citations
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Heess, Nicolas, David Silver, & Yee Whye Teh. (2012). Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Energy-Based Policies. UCL Discovery (University College London). 43–58. 26 indexed citations
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Branavan, S. R. K., David Silver, & Regina Barzilay. (2011). Non-linear Monte-Carlo search in civilization II. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2404–2410. 16 indexed citations
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Silver, David & Joel Veness. (2010). Monte-Carlo Planning in Large POMDPs. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 23. 2164–2172. 484 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bhatnagar, Shalabh, Doina Precup, David Silver, et al.. (2009). Convergent Temporal-Difference Learning with Arbitrary Smooth Function Approximation. Neural Information Processing Systems. 22. 1204–1212. 81 indexed citations
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Silver, David. (2005). Cooperative Pathfinding. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 1(1). 117–122. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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