Papers

2021

From Poincaré Recurrence to Convergence in Imperfect Information Games: Finding Equilibrium via Regularization. J Perolat, R Munos, J-B Lespiau, S Omidshafiei, M Rowland, P Ortega, N Burch, TW Anthony, D Balduzzi, B De Vylder, G Piliouras, M Lanctot, K Tuyls

pdf, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

A Limited-Capacity Minimax Theorem for Non-Convex Games or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Mixed-Nash and Love Neural Nets. G Gidel, D Balduzzi, WM Czarnecki, M Garnelo, Y Bachrach

pdf, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference (AISTATS)

Pick Your Battles: Interaction Graphs as Population-Level Objectives for Strategic Diversity. M Garnelo, WM Czarnecki, S Liu, D Tirumala, J Oh, G Gidel, H van Hasselt, D Balduzzi

pdf, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS, extended abstract)

2020

From Chaos to Order: Symmetry and Conservation Laws in Game Dynamics. SG Nagarajan, D Balduzzi, G Piliouras

pdf, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Real world games look like spinning tops. WM Czarnecki, G Gidel, B Tracey, K Tuyls, S Omidshafiei, D Balduzzi, M Jaderberg

pdf, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Smooth markets: A basic mechanism for organizing gradient-based learners. D Balduzzi, WM Czarnecki, TW Anthony, IM Gemp, E Hughes, JZ Leibo, G Piliouras, T Graepel

pdf, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Robust Self-organization in Games: Symmetries, Conservation Laws and Dimensionality Reduction. SG Nagarajan, D Balduzzi, G Piliouras

pdf, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS, extended abstract)

Learning to resolve alliance dilemmas in many-player zero-sum games. E Hughes, TW Anthony, T Eccles, JZ Leibo, D Balduzzi, Y Bachrach

pdf, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)

D3C: Reducing the Price of Anarchy in Multi-Agent Learning. I Gemp, KR McKee, R Everett, EA Duéñez-Guzmán, Y Bachrach, D Balduzzi, A Tacchetti

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2019

Open-ended learning in symmetric zero-sum games. D Balduzzi, M Garnelo, Y Bachrach, W Czarnecki, J Pérolat, M Jaderberg, T Graepel

pdf, slides, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Differentiable Game Mechanics. A Letcher^*, D Balduzzi^*, S Racanière, J Martens, J Foerster, K Tuyls, T Graepel

pdf, code, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)

Stable Opponent Shaping in Differentiable Games. A Letcher, J Foerster, D Balduzzi, T Rocktäschel, S Whiteson

pdf, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

LOGAN: Latent Optimisation for Generative Adversarial Networks. Y Wu, J Donahue, D Balduzzi, K Simonyan, T Lillicrap

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2018

Re-evaluating Evaluation. D Balduzzi, K Tuyls, J Pérolat, T Graepel

pdf, poster, Adv in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

The Mechanics of n-Player Differentiable Games. D Balduzzi, S Racanière, J Martens, J Foerster, K Tuyls, T Graepel

pdf, slides, code, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
[ best paper runner up at ICML ]

2017

The Shattered Gradients Problem: If resnets are the answer, then what is the question? D Balduzzi, M Frean, L Leary, JP Lewis, KW Ma, B McWilliams

pdf, slides, code for figure 1, video, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
[ best paper award at Principled Approaches to Deep Learning workshop (ICML-PADL) ]

Neural Taylor Approximations: Convergence and Exploration in Rectifier Networks. D Balduzzi, B McWilliams, T Butler-Yeoman

pdf, slides, video, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Strongly-Typed Agents are Guaranteed to Interact Safely. D Balduzzi

pdf, slides, video, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Back to RGB: Deep Articulated Hand-Pose Estimation from a Single Camera Image. KW Ma, JP Lewis, M Frean, D Balduzzi

pdf, International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ)

2016

Scatter Component Analysis: A Unified Framework for Domain Adaptation and Domain Generalization. M Ghifary, D Balduzzi, W Kleijn, M Zhang

pdf, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

Deep Reconstruction-Classification Networks for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. M Ghifary, W Kleijn, M Zhang, D Balduzzi, W Li

pdf, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

Strongly-Typed Recurrent Neural Networks. D Balduzzi, M Ghifary

pdf, slides, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Compliance-aware bandits. N Della Penna, M Reid, D Balduzzi

pdf, Machine Learning for Healthcare Workshop (NeurIPS-ML4HC)

Grammars for Games: A Gradient-Based, Game-Theoretic Framework for Optimization in Deep Learning. D Balduzzi

pdf, Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Deep Online Convex Optimization with Gated Games. D Balduzzi

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2015

Domain Generalization for Object Recognition with Multitask Autoencoders. M Ghifary, W Kleijn, M Zhang, D Balduzzi

pdf, code, International Conference on Computer Vision 2015 (ICCV)

Learning the Structure of Sum-Product Networks via an SVD-based Algorithm. T Adel, D Balduzzi, A Ghodsi

pdf, 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)

Kickback cuts Backprop's redtape: Biologically plausible credit assignment in neural networks. D Balduzzi, H Vanchinathan, J Buhmann

pdf, 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Compatible Value Gradients for Reinforcement Learning of Continuous Deep Policies. D Balduzzi, M Ghifary

pdf, slides, movie of trained policy on octopus arm: mp4

2014

Uncovering the structure and temporal dynamics of information propagation. M Gomez Rodriguez, J Leskovec, D Balduzzi, B Schölkopf

pdf, website, Network Science

Cortical prediction markets. D Balduzzi

pdf, slides, 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

Falsifiable implies Learnable. D Balduzzi

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2013

Quantifying causal influences. D Janzing, D Balduzzi, M Grosse-Wentrup, B Schölkopf

pdf, Annals of Statistics

Correlated random features for fast semi-supervised learning. B McWilliams, D Balduzzi, J Buhmann

pdf, code, Adv in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Domain generalization via invariant feature representation. K Muandet, D Balduzzi, B Schölkopf

pdf, code, video, 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Randomized co-training: from cortical neurons to machine learning and back again. D Balduzzi

pdf, Randomized Methods for Machine Learning workshop (NeurIPS-RMML).
[ best paper award at NeurIPS-RMML ]

Pruning random features with correlated kitchen sinks (1 page abstract). B McWilliams, D Balduzzi

abstract, Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS)

Metabolic cost as an organizing principle for cooperative learning. D Balduzzi, P Ortega, M Besserve

pdf, Advances in Complex Systems

What can neurons do for their brain? Communicate selectivity with spikes. D Balduzzi, G Tononi

pdf, slides, Theory in Biosciences

2012

Towards a learning-theoretic analysis of spike-timing dependent plasticity. D Balduzzi, M Besserve

pdf, Adv in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

A Nonparametric Conjugate Prior Distribution for the Maximizing Argument of a Noisy Function. P Ortega, J Grau-Moya, T Genewein, D Balduzzi, D Braun

pdf, code, Adv in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Regulating the information in spikes: a useful bias. D Balduzzi

pdf, Information in Perception and Action workshop (NeurIPS-IPA)

A Neuromorphic Architecture for Object Recognition and Motion Anticipation Using Burst-STDP. A Nere, U Olcese, D Balduzzi, G Tononi

pdf, PLoS ONE 7(5): e36958

2011

Information, learning and falsification. D Balduzzi

pdf, slides, Philosophy and Machine Learning workshop (NeurIPS-PML)

Uncovering the Temporal Dynamics of Diffusion Networks. M Gomez Rodriguez, D Balduzzi, B Schölkopf

pdf, code, video, 28th International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML)

Falsification and future performance. D Balduzzi

pdf, Proceedings of Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference, Lec Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7070, Springer.

On the information-theoretic structure of distributed measurements. D Balduzzi

pdf, dagstuhl, Elec Proc Theoretical Computer Science. 7th Developments of Computational Models workshop (DCM)

Estimating integrated information with TMS pulses during wakefulness, sleep, and under anesthesia. D Balduzzi

pdf, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC)

Detecting emergent processes in cellular automata with excess information. D Balduzzi

pdf, Advances in Artificial Life, MIT Press (ECAL)

2009

Qualia: The geometry of integrated information. D Balduzzi, G Tononi

pdf, PLoS Computational Biology 5(8): e1000462

Towards a theory of consciousness. G Tononi, D Balduzzi

pdf, slides, The Cognitive Neurosciences IV, edited by M Gazzaniga

2008

A BOLD window into brain waves. D Balduzzi, BA Riedner, G Tononi

pdf, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) vol. 105 no. 41

Integrated Information in Discrete Dynamical Systems: Motivation and Theoretical Framework. D Balduzzi, G Tononi

pdf, code, PLoS Computational Biology 4(6): e1000091

Poisson geometry of parabolic bundles on elliptic curves. D Balduzzi

pdf, International Journal of Mathematics 19

2006

Donagi-Markman cubic for Hitchin systems. D Balduzzi

pdf, Math Research Letters 13

Hamiltonian geometry of moduli space of bundles on curves. PhD thesis