Tom Schaul

Researcher, Google DeepMind

2 papers at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 1

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation

#3509 · Dan A. Calian, Gregory Farquhar, Iurii Kemaev, Luisa Zintgraf, Matteo Hessel, Jeremy Shar, Junhyuk Oh, András György, Tom Schaul, Jeff Dean, Hado van Hasselt, David Silver

We introduce the "DataRater", a meta-learning approach to automatically learn the value of data and use it to improve the compute efficiency of training foundation models.

Poster Session 4

1 paper

Thursday, December 4, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment

#512 Spotlight · David Abel, Michael Bowling, Andre Barreto, Will Dabney, Shi Dong, Steven Stenberg Hansen, Anna Harutyunyan, Khimya Khetarpal, Clare Lyle, Razvan Pascanu, Georgios Piliouras, Doina Precup, Jonathan Richens, Mark Rowland, Tom Schaul, Satinder Singh

We provide a formal definition of plasticity under minimal assumptions, and highlight a fundamental connection to empowerment