Dhruva Tirumala

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 333 citations indexed

About

Dhruva Tirumala is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dhruva Tirumala has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 333 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 1 paper in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dhruva Tirumala's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers), Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (1 paper) and Neural dynamics and brain function (1 paper). Dhruva Tirumala is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers), Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (1 paper) and Neural dynamics and brain function (1 paper). Dhruva Tirumala collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Dhruva Tirumala's co-authors include Demis Hassabis, Dharshan Kumaran, Zeb Kurth‐Nelson, Hubert Soyer, Matthew Botvinick, Joel Z. Leibo, Jane X. Wang, Nicolas Heess, Josh Merel and Arun Ahuja and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Neuroscience and arXiv (Cornell University).

In The Last Decade

Dhruva Tirumala

4 papers receiving 327 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

2018 317 citations Jane X. Wang, Zeb Kurth‐Nelson et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dhruva Tirumala United Kingdom	4	229	109	52	39	27	4	333
Stephanie Nelli United Kingdom	5	190 0.8×	82 0.8×	32 0.6×	22 0.6×	19 0.7×	6	307
Reto Wyss Switzerland	8	162 0.7×	40 0.4×	38 0.7×	35 0.9×	37 1.4×	11	270
Evan M. Russek United States	5	279 1.2×	97 0.9×	72 1.4×	12 0.3×	22 0.8×	8	378
Christian Huyck United Kingdom	11	139 0.6×	198 1.8×	35 0.7×	74 1.9×	10 0.4×	53	340
Martí Sánchez-Fibla Spain	11	147 0.6×	92 0.8×	37 0.7×	10 0.3×	22 0.8×	32	353
Dongsung Huh United States	5	170 0.7×	99 0.9×	25 0.5×	85 2.2×	12 0.4×	8	243
Alexandre Pitti France	9	197 0.9×	50 0.5×	27 0.5×	42 1.1×	5 0.2×	31	287
A. Harry Klopf United States	9	207 0.9×	223 2.0×	78 1.5×	60 1.5×	31 1.1×	20	428
Abigail A. Russo United States	5	321 1.4×	40 0.4×	103 2.0×	29 0.7×	24 0.9×	5	347
Pierre Enel France	7	284 1.2×	111 1.0×	51 1.0×	93 2.4×	22 0.8×	9	386

Countries citing papers authored by Dhruva Tirumala

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dhruva Tirumala

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dhruva Tirumala

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dhruva Tirumala. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dhruva Tirumala 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 Dhruva Tirumala. Dhruva Tirumala is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Song, Hao, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Jost Tobias Springenberg, et al.. (2020). V-MPO: On-Policy Maximum a Posteriori Policy Optimization for Discrete and Continuous Control. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

2.

Jayakumar, Siddhant M., Leonard Hasenclever, Dhruva Tirumala, et al.. (2019). Information asymmetry in KL-regularized RL. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

3.

Merel, Josh, Arun Ahuja, Vu Pham, et al.. (2018). Hierarchical Visuomotor Control of Humanoids.. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Jane X., Zeb Kurth‐Nelson, Dharshan Kumaran, et al.. (2018). Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system. Nature Neuroscience. 21(6). 860–868. 317 indexed citations breakdown →

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