Patents by Inventor Tom Erez
Tom Erez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20260127431Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent to interact with an environment using an action selection neural network. In one aspect, a method comprises, at each time step in a sequence of time steps: generating a current representation of a state of a task being performed by the agent in the environment as of the current time step as a sequence of data elements; autoregressively generating a sequence of data elements representing a current action to be performed by the agent at the current time step; and after autoregressively generating the sequence of data elements representing the current action, causing the agent to perform the current action at the current time step.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2025Publication date: May 7, 2026Inventors: Scott Ellison Reed, Konrad Zolna, Emilio Parisotto, Tom Erez, Alexander Novikov, Jack William Rae, Misha Man Ray Denil, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas, Oriol Vinyals, Sergio Gomez, Ashley Deloris Edwards, Jacob Bruce, Gabriel Barth-Maron
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Publication number: 20260105316Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2025Publication date: April 16, 2026Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Patent number: 12561573Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: DeepMind Technologies LimitedInventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Patent number: 12547890Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent to interact with an environment using an action selection neural network. In one aspect, a method comprises, at each time step in a sequence of time steps: generating a current representation of a state of a task being performed by the agent in the environment as of the current time step as a sequence of data elements; autoregressively generating a sequence of data elements representing a current action to be performed by the agent at the current time step; and after autoregressively generating the sequence of data elements representing the current action, causing the agent to perform the current action at the current time step.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: GDM Holding LLCInventors: Tom Erez, Alexander Novikov, Emilio Parisotto, Jack William Rae, Konrad Zolna, Misha Man Ray Denil, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas, Oriol Vinyals, Scott Ellison Reed, Sergio Gomez, Ashley Deloris Edwards, Jacob Bruce, Gabriel Barth-Maron
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Patent number: 12505346Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent to interact with an environment using an action selection neural network. In one aspect, a method comprises, at each time step in a sequence of time steps: generating a current representation of a state of a task being performed by the agent in the environment as of the current time step as a sequence of data elements; autoregressively generating a sequence of data elements representing a current action to be performed by the agent at the current time step; and after autoregressively generating the sequence of data elements representing the current action, causing the agent to perform the current action at the current time step.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 23, 2025Assignee: GDM Holding LLCInventors: Scott Ellison Reed, Konrad Zolna, Emilio Parisotto, Tom Erez, Alexander Novikov, Jack William Rae, Misha Man Ray Denil, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas, Oriol Vinyals, Sergio Gomez, Ashley Deloris Edwards, Jacob Bruce, Gabriel Barth-Maron
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Publication number: 20240281654Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent to interact with an environment using an action selection neural network. In one aspect, a method comprises, at each time step in a sequence of time steps: generating a current representation of a state of a task being performed by the agent in the environment as of the current time step as a sequence of data elements; autoregressively generating a sequence of data elements representing a current action to be performed by the agent at the current time step; and after autoregressively generating the sequence of data elements representing the current action, causing the agent to perform the current action at the current time step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Scott Ellison Reed, Konrad Zolna, Emilio Parisotto, Tom Erez, Alexander Novikov, Jack William Rae, Misha Man Ray Denil, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas, Oriol Vinyals, Sergio Gomez, Ashley Deloris Edwards, Jacob Bruce, Gabriel Barth-Maron
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Publication number: 20240177002Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Patent number: 11803750Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: DeepMind Technologies LimitedInventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Publication number: 20230061411Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting actions to be performed by an agent to interact with an environment using an action selection neural network. In one aspect, a method comprises, at each time step in a sequence of time steps: generating a current representation of a state of a task being performed by the agent in the environment as of the current time step as a sequence of data elements; autoregressively generating a sequence of data elements representing a current action to be performed by the agent at the current time step; and after autoregressively generating the sequence of data elements representing the current action, causing the agent to perform the current action at the current time step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Tom Erez, Alexander Novikov, Emilio Parisotto, Jack William Rae, Konrad Zolna, Misha Man Ray Denil, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas, Oriol Vinyals, Scott Ellison Reed, Sergio Gomez, Ashley Deloris Edwards, Jacob Bruce, Gabriel Barth-Maron
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Publication number: 20200410351Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Patent number: 10776692Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: DeepMind Technologies LimitedInventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Publication number: 20170024643Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra