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Tom Schaul

Google DeepMindSenior Staff Research Scientist

Schaul helped make reinforcement-learning agents learn more efficiently by inventing prioritized experience replay, which revisits the experiences most useful for improvement. That idea became a core component of Agent57, the first agent to outperform humans across all 57 Atari benchmark games.

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Senior Staff Research Scientist

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
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Citation snapshot on Nov 1, '2658,163Nov 1, '26
citations58,163As of Nov 1, '26
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