Shimon Whiteson
Oxford professor of computer science and Research Director at Google DeepMind; works on multi-agent RL
- Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford1
- Research Director, Google DeepMind1
Shimon Whiteson is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a Research Director at Google DeepMind, with research on deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning applied to robotics and video games. Before Oxford, Whiteson was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and Whiteson's spin-out company Latent Logic was acquired by Waymo in 2019. Whiteson is the senior author of the multi-agent reinforcement learning papers QMIX (2018) and Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients (COMA, 2017).123
Work
QMIX: Monotonic Value Function Factorisation for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Senior (last) author of the 2018 paper on learning joint action-values for teams of agents trained centrally and executed in a decentralised way.2
Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients (COMA) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Senior (last) author of the 2017 paper proposing the COMA multi-agent actor-critic method with a centralised critic.3
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