Yuval Tassa

22.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
30 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Yuval Tassa is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuval Tassa has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Yuval Tassa's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (12 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (7 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (7 papers). Yuval Tassa is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (12 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (7 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (7 papers). Yuval Tassa collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Yuval Tassa's co-authors include Tom Erez, Emanuel Todorov, Nicolas Heess, Timothy Lillicrap, David Silver, Jonathan J. Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Daan Wierstra, Emo Todorov and Nicolas Mansard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, ACM Transactions on Graphics and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

In The Last Decade

Yuval Tassa

29 papers receiving 8.4k citations

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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.

Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning

2016 4.9k citations Timothy Lillicrap, Jonathan J. Hunt et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
MuJoCo: A physics engine for model-based control

2012 2.0k citations Emanuel Todorov, Tom Erez et al. profile →
Synthesis and stabilization of complex behaviors through online trajectory optimization

2012 400 citations Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Demonstrating MuJoCo Playground 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Koushil Sreenath, Lüder A. Kahrs, Carmelo Sferrazza, Yuval Tassa, Pieter Abbeel	2
2	Efficient Online Learning of Contact Force Models for Connector Insertion 2025 ·(unknown), Zachary Manchester, (unknown), (unknown), Stefan Schaal, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa	0
3	Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion 2025 ·Nature ·Roman Vaxenburg, Igor Siwanowicz, Josh Merel, Alice A. Robie, (unknown), Guido Novati, (unknown), (unknown), Gwyneth M Card, Michael B. Reiser, Matthew Botvinick, Kristin Branson, Yuval Tassa, Srinivas C. Turaga	5
4	A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviours 2024 ·Nature ·Diego Aldarondo, Josh Merel, Jesse D. Marshall, Leonard Hasenclever, (unknown), (unknown), Yuval Tassa, Greg Wayne, Matthew Botvinick, Bence P. Ölveczky	20
5	A Constrained Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Framework 2021 ·Sandy H. Huang, Abbas Abdolmaleki, (unknown), Philémon Brakel, Daniel J. Mankowitz, Michael Neunert, Steven Bohez, Yuval Tassa, Nicolas Heess, Martin Riedmiller, Raia Hadsell	2
6	dm_control: Software and tasks for continuous control 2020 ·Software Impacts ·Saran Tunyasuvunakool, Alistair Muldal, Yotam Doron, Siqi Liu, Steven Bohez, Josh Merel, Tom Erez, Timothy Lillicrap, Nicolas Heess, Yuval Tassa	89
7	Maximum a Posteriori Policy Optimisation 2018 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Abbas Abdolmaleki, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Yuval Tassa, Rémi Munos, Nicolas Heess, Martin Riedmiller	10
8	Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning breakdown → 2016 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Timothy Lillicrap, Jonathan J. Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daan Wierstra	4888
9	Learning continuous control policies by stochastic value gradients 2015 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Nicolas Heess, Greg Wayne, David Silver, Timothy Lillicrap, Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez	113
10	Whole-body model-predictive control applied to the HRP-2 humanoid 2015 ·HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·Jonas Koenemann, Andrea Del Prete, Yuval Tassa, E. Todorov, Olivier Stasse, Maren Bennewitz, Nicolas Mansard	134
11	Simulation tools for model-based robotics: Comparison of Bullet, Havok, MuJoCo, ODE and PhysX 2015 ·Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, Emanuel Todorov	179
12	Real-time behaviour synthesis for dynamic hand-manipulation 2014 ·Vikash Kumar, Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez, Emanuel Todorov	48
13	STAC: Simultaneous tracking and calibration 2013 ·Tingfan Wu, Yuval Tassa, Vikash Kumar, Javier R. Movellan, Emanuel Todorov	4
14	Modeling and identification of pneumatic actuators 2013 ·Yuval Tassa, Tingfan Wu, Javier R. Movellan, Emanuel Todorov	19
15	Synthesis and stabilization of complex behaviors through online trajectory optimization breakdown → 2012 ·Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez, Emanuel Todorov	400
16	MuJoCo: A physics engine for model-based control breakdown → 2012 ·Emanuel Todorov, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa	2003
17	High-order local dynamic programming 2011 ·Yuval Tassa, Emanuel Todorov	5
18	Stochastic Differential Dynamic Programming 2010 ·Evangelos A. Theodorou, Yuval Tassa, Emo Todorov	62
19	Stochastic Complementarity for Local Control of Discontinuous Dynamics 2010 ·Yuval Tassa, E. Todorov	29
20	Receding Horizon Differential Dynamic Programming 2007 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Yuval Tassa, Tom Erez, William D. Smart	80

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