Check out our new work on learning to drive in new cities without collecting any new demonstrations in that city. All we need is a simple reward function and readily available map and meta-information about the city. Self-play reinforcement learning does the rest!

Machine Learning Engineer, AI Foundations - Oxford, England, United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...

I am hiring for two roles on my team at Waymo, based in London or Oxford. Come work at the cutting edge of autonomous driving! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine... and careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/senior-...

I was interviewed for the Robot Talk Podcast.

Check out our new work on using low-rank perturbations to make evolution strategies work for billion-parameter models.

The robotics revolution is here.

Waymo is coming to London next year.

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Got questions about self-driving cars? 🤖 🚘

Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.

Send me your questions for Shimon in the comments below! #Robots #Robotics #AI

Machine Learning Engineer, AI Foundations - Oxford, England, United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...

I'm hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for my team at Waymo Research. Come help us tackle the biggest challenges in autonomous vehicles! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine...

What happened?!?

Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives

"In the fight against injustice, winning is a moral duty." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...

Our survey on meta reinforcement learning has now been published by Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

Just another day at the office.

In order to set a good example for my students, I feel morally obliged to do as little work as possible.

I continue to maintain that that is an insane amount of butter. I use 50g and it is already plenty rich.

Apparently I have not been doing my job?

Thanks to Frans Oliehoek and Chris Amato for pointing out these issues. Thanks also to Frans Oliehoek and Andrea Baisero for feedback on the revised proof.

This version corrects an error in the original convergence proof arising from the fact that the critic depended on the state but not the joint history.

Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients Cooperative multi-agent systems can be naturally used to model many real world problems, such as network packet routing and the coordination of autonomous vehicles. There is a great need for new reinf...

A new version of the paper Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients, that I first published in 2017 with @jfoerst.bsky.social, Greg Farquhar, and others, is now available on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/1705.08926).

The position is London based but the students can come from anywhere.

2025 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research - Simulation Agents - London, England, United Kingdom Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waym...

My team at Waymo is hiring two London-based interns for Summer 2025. Please consider applying!

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What if instead of viewing AI as a separate entity, we treat the human and computer as one cognitive unit that together outperforms either on its own? My prefrontal cortex doesn't fret about delegating visual processing to my visual cortex. I don't fret about delegating navigation to Google Maps.

Too late you’re cancelled.

Who says Mountain Car is not a real world problem?

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