Tom Schaul

17.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
54 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Tom Schaul is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Schaul has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 9 papers in Signal Processing and 7 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Tom Schaul's work include Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (29 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (25 papers) and Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (17 papers). Tom Schaul is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (29 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (25 papers) and Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (17 papers). Tom Schaul collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Tom Schaul's co-authors include Matteo Hessel, Hado van Hasselt, Marc Lanctot, David Silver, Ziyu Wang, Nando de Freitas, Georg Ostrovski, Bilal Piot, Dan Horgan and Will Dabney and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Machine Learning Research, Molecular Pharmaceutics and Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment.

In The Last Decade

Tom Schaul

51 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Schaul United States 26 3.3k 877 824 634 634 54 4.9k
Hado van Hasselt United Kingdom 15 2.7k 0.8× 903 1.0× 953 1.2× 1.1k 1.8× 1.2k 1.8× 31 5.2k
Shimon Whiteson Netherlands 27 2.3k 0.7× 466 0.5× 462 0.6× 612 1.0× 310 0.5× 136 3.5k
Matthew E. Taylor United States 32 2.6k 0.8× 438 0.5× 829 1.0× 484 0.8× 365 0.6× 160 3.8k
Lucian Buşoniu Romania 18 1.8k 0.5× 426 0.5× 1.3k 1.6× 847 1.3× 827 1.3× 83 4.1k
Anthony R. Cassandra United States 11 2.1k 0.6× 723 0.8× 502 0.6× 670 1.1× 291 0.5× 17 3.5k
Nicolas Heess United Kingdom 25 2.9k 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 1.8k 2.2× 1.1k 1.7× 1.5k 2.4× 58 6.5k
Shlomo Zilberstein United States 34 3.9k 1.2× 631 0.7× 490 0.6× 1.7k 2.7× 198 0.3× 233 5.7k
Péter Bárányi Hungary 35 1.8k 0.5× 553 0.6× 2.4k 2.9× 466 0.7× 351 0.6× 258 5.1k
Sanjit A. Seshia United States 42 2.9k 0.9× 740 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 1.4k 2.2× 904 1.4× 197 7.3k
Miles Brundage United States 6 1.1k 0.3× 397 0.5× 517 0.6× 679 1.1× 631 1.0× 9 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Schaul

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Schaul

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom Schaul. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom Schaul 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 Tom Schaul. Tom Schaul 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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Lange, Robert Tjarko, et al.. (2023). Discovering Evolution Strategies via Meta-Black-Box Optimization. 29–30. 12 indexed citations
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Lange, Robert Tjarko, et al.. (2023). Discovering Attention-Based Genetic Algorithms via Meta-Black-Box Optimization. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 929–937. 10 indexed citations
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Ashlock, Dan, et al.. (2019). Representation in Evolutionary Computation for Games. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 9(12). 1 indexed citations
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Hester, Todd, Olivier Pietquin, Marc Lanctot, et al.. (2017). Learning from Demonstrations for Real World Reinforcement Learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 43 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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Xu, Zhongwen, Joseph Modayil, Hado P. van Hasselt, et al.. (2017). Natural Value Approximators: Learning when to Trust Past Estimates. Neural Information Processing Systems. 30. 2120–2128.
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Vezhnevets, Alexander Sasha, Simon Osindero, Tom Schaul, et al.. (2017). FeUdal Networks for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 3540–3549. 110 indexed citations
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Bellemare, Marc G., Sriram Srinivasan, Georg Ostrovski, et al.. (2016). Unifying count-based exploration and intrinsic motivation. Neural Information Processing Systems. 29. 1479–1487. 280 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jaderberg, Max, Volodymyr Mnih, Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, et al.. (2016). Reinforcement Learning with Unsupervised Auxiliary Tasks. arXiv (Cornell University). 110 indexed citations
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Schaul, Tom & Yann LeCun. (2013). Adaptive learning rates and parallelization for stochastic, sparse, non-smooth gradients. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Yi, Tom Schaul, Faustino Gomez, & Jürgen Schmidhuber. (2013). A linear time natural evolution strategy for non-separable functions. 61–62. 18 indexed citations
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Ring, Mark & Tom Schaul. (2011). Q-error as a selection mechanism in modular reinforcement-learning systems. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1452–1457. 6 indexed citations
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Schaul, Tom. (2011). Studies in Continuous Black-box Optimization. mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich). 6 indexed citations
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Meneses, Anderson Alvarenga de Moura, Paola M. V. Rancoita, Tom Schaul, et al.. (2010). Assessment of neural networks training strategies for histomorphometric analysis of synchrotron radiation medical images. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 621(1-3). 662–669. 5 indexed citations
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Schaul, Tom & Jürgen Schmidhuber. (2010). Towards Practical Universal Search. 2 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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Schaul, Tom. (2006). Evolving a compact, concept-based Sokoban solver. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 6(2). 627–33. 3 indexed citations

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