Hierarchical Motor Control in Mammals and Machines

Speaker: Josh Merel [PUBS]
Affiliation: Google Deepmind
Date: April 23, 2020
Primary: Merel et al [3], Merel et al [4]
Secondary: Herd et al [2], Wayne et al [5], Cisek [1]
Title: Hierarchical motor control in mammals and machines (SLIDES) (VIDEOS)
Comment: Josh participated in a discussion of the Paul Cisek paper worth checking out.

References:

[1]	Paul Cisek. Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 81(7):2265--2287, 2019.
[2]	Seth Herd, Kai Krueger, Ananta Nair, Jessica Mollick, and Randall OReilly. Neural mechanisms of human decision-making. CoRR, arXiv:1912.07660, 2019.
[3]	Josh Merel, Matt Botvinick, and Greg Wayne. Hierarchical motor control in mammals and machines. Nature Communications, 10(1):5489, 2019.
[4]	Josh Merel, Leonard Hasenclever, Alexandre Galashov, Arun Ahuja, Vu Pham, Greg Wayne, Yee Whye Teh, and Nicolas Heess. Neural probabilistic motor primitives for humanoid control. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019.
[5]	Greg Wayne, Chia-Chun Hung, David Amos, Mehdi Mirza, Arun Ahuja, Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska, Jack Rae, Piotr Mirowski, Joel Z. Leibo, Adam Santoro, Mevlana Gemici, Malcolm Reynolds, Tim Harley, Josh Abramson, Shakir Mohamed, Danilo Rezende, David Saxton, Adam Cain, Chloe Hillier, David Silver, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Matt Botvinick, Demis Hassabis, and Timothy Lillicrap. Unsupervised predictive memory in a goal-directed agent. CoRR, arXiv:1803.10760, 2018.