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Volodymyr Mnih

Research scientist at Google DeepMind; first author of the deep Q-network (DQN) and A3C papers

Volodymyr (Vlad) Mnih is a research scientist at Google DeepMind, according to Mnih's homepage, which lists publications on deep reinforcement learning and visual attention. Mnih is first author of "Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning" (2013), which trained a convolutional network with a variant of Q-learning to play Atari 2600 games from raw pixels, and of the Nature paper "Human-level Control through Deep Reinforcement Learning". Mnih is also first author of "Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning" (2016), which introduced asynchronous actor-learner variants of standard reinforcement learning algorithms.123

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    Volodymyr Mnih — homepage (external site: cs.toronto.edu)

    Volodymyr Mnih (University of Toronto Computer Science) · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning (arXiv 1312.5602) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Dec 19, 2013 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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