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).

  • Publication number: 20260127431
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20260105316
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
  • Patent number: 12561573
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
  • Patent number: 12547890
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: GDM Holding LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 12505346
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: GDM Holding LLC
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240281654
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240177002
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
  • Patent number: 11803750
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
  • Publication number: 20230061411
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20200410351
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
  • Patent number: 10776692
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
  • Publication number: 20170024643
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra