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Publications (25)

cs.RO2021

Actionable Models: Unsupervised Offline Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Skills

Yevgen Chebotar, Karol Hausman, Yao Lu +8

We consider the problem of learning useful robotic skills from previously collected offline data without access to manually specified rewards or additional online exploration, a se…

cs.RO2020

RL-CycleGAN: Reinforcement Learning Aware Simulation-To-Real

Kanishka Rao, Chris Harris, Alex Irpan +3

Deep neural network based reinforcement learning (RL) can learn appropriate visual representations for complex tasks like vision-based robotic grasping without the need for manuall…

cs.CL2025

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…

cs.AI2025

An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security

Rohin Shah, Alex Irpan, Alexander Matt Turner +27

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) promises transformative benefits but also presents significant risks. We develop an approach to address the risk of harms consequential enough…

cs.LG2024

Stop Regressing: Training Value Functions via Classification for Scalable Deep RL

Jesse Farebrother, Jordi Orbay, Quan Vuong +9

Value functions are a central component of deep reinforcement learning (RL). These functions, parameterized by neural networks, are trained using a mean squared error regression ob…

stat.ML2019

Noise Contrastive Priors for Functional Uncertainty

Danijar Hafner, Dustin Tran, Timothy Lillicrap +2

Obtaining reliable uncertainty estimates of neural network predictions is a long standing challenge. Bayesian neural networks have been proposed as a solution, but it remains open…