Jake Bruce

Research Scientist --- DeepMind, London

jacobbruce@google.com

• PhD --- QUT Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Brisbane
• MSc --- SFU Computer Science, Burnaby
• BCS --- Acadia Computer Science, Wolfville

Research

• Jack Parker-Holder, Philip Ball, Jake Bruce, Vibhavari Dasagi, Kristian Holsheimer, Christos Kaplanis, Alexandre Moufarek, Guy Scully, Jeremy Shar, Jimmy Shi, Stephen Spencer, Jessica Yung, Michael Dennis, Sultan Kenjeyev, Shangbang Long, Vlad Mnih, Harris Chan, Maxime Gazeau, Bonnie Li, Fabio Pardo, Luyu Wang, Lei Zhang, Frederic Besse, Tim Harley, Anna Mitenkova, Jane Wang, Jeff Clune, Demis Hassabis, Raia Hadsell, Adrian Bolton, Satinder Singh, Tim Rocktaeschel. "Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model," Blog. 2024.


• Jake Bruce, Michael D Dennis, Ashley Edwards, Jack Parker-Holder, Yuge Shi, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai, Aditi Mavalankar, Richie Steigerwald, Chris Apps, Yusuf Aytar, Sarah Maria Elisabeth Bechtle, Feryal Behbahani, Stephanie CY Chan, Nicolas Heess, Lucy Gonzalez, Simon Osindero, Sherjil Ozair, Scott Reed, Jingwei Zhang, Konrad Zolna, Jeff Clune, Nando de Freitas, Satinder Singh, Tim Rocktaeschel. "Genie: Generative Interactive Environments," International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). PDF. 2024.


• Sherry Yang, Jacob C Walker, Jack Parker-Holder, Yilun Du, Jake Bruce, Andre Barreto, Pieter Abbeel, Dale Schuurmans. "Video as the new language for real-world decision making," International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). PDF. 2024.


• Ingmar Schubert, Jingwei Zhang, Jake Bruce, Sarah Bechtle, Emilio Parisotto, Martin Riedmiller, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Arunkumar Byravan, Leonard Hasenclever, Nicolas Heess. "A generalist dynamics model for control," ArXiv. PDF. 2023.


• Bogdan Mazoure, Jake Bruce, Doina Precup, Rob Fergus, Ankit Anand. "Accelerating exploration and representation learning with offline pre-training," ArXiv. PDF. 2023.


• Jake Bruce, Ankit Anand, Bogdan Mazoure, Rob Fergus. "Learning About Progress From Experts," International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Paper. Dataset. 2023.


• Scott Reed, Konrad Zolna, Emilio Parisotto, Sergio Gomez Colmenarejo, Alexander Novikov, Gabriel Barth-Maron, Mai Gimenez, Yury Sulsky, Jackie Kay, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Tom Eccles, Jake Bruce, Ali Razavi, Ashley Edwards, Nicolas Heess, Yutian Chen, Raia Hadsell, Oriol Vinyals, Mahyar Bordbar, Nando de Freitas. "A Generalist Agent," ArXiv. PDF. 2022.


• Andrew Jaegle, Yury Sulsky, Arun Ahuja, Jake Bruce, Rob Fergus, Greg Wayne. "Imitation by Predicting Observations," International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). PDF. 2021.


• Vibhavari Dasagi, Robert Lee, Jake Bruce, Juxi Leitner. "Evaluating Task-Agnostic Exploration for Fixed-Batch Learning of Arbitrary Future Tasks," Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA). PDF. Adelaide, Australia, 2019.


• Vibhavari Dasagi, Robert Lee, Serena Mou, Jake Bruce, Niko Suenderhauf, Juxi Leitner. "Sim-to-Real Transfer of Robot Learning with Variable Length Inputs," Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA). PDF. Adelaide, Australia, 2019.


• Vibhavari Dasagi, Jake Bruce, Thierry Peynot, Juxi Leitner. "CTRL-Z: Recovering From Instability in Reinforcement Learning," ArXiv. PDF.


• Theotime Colin, Jake Bruce, William G. Meikle, Andrew B. Barron. "The development of honey bee colonies assessed using a new semi-automated brood counting method: CombCount," Public Library of Science (PLoS One). PDF. 2018.


• Jake Bruce, Niko Suenderhauf, Piotr Mirowski, Raia Hadsell, and Michael Milford. "Learning Deployable Navigation Policies at Kilometer Scale from a Single Traversal," Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). PDF. Zurich, Switzerland, 2018.


• Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Damien Teney, Jake Bruce, Mark Johnson, Niko Suenderhauf, Ian Reid, Stephen Gould, and Anton van den Hengel. "Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting visually-grounded navigation instructions in real environments," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). PDF. Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018.


• Jake Bruce, Niko Suenderhauf, Piotr Mirowski, Raia Hadsell, and Michael Milford. "One-Shot Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation with Interactive Replay" in Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Workshop on Acting and Interacting in the Real World: Challenges in Robot Learning. PDF. Long Beach, USA, 2017.


• Jake Bruce, Adam Jacobson, and Michael Milford. "Look No Further: Adapting the Localization Sensory Window to the Temporal Characteristics of the Environment," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). PDF. 2017.


• Jake Bruce, Jacob Perron, and Richard Vaughan. "Ready—Aim—Fly! Hands-Free Face-Based HRI for 3D Trajectory Control of UAVs," in Conf. on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV). PDF. Video. IEEE Spectrum article. Edmonton, Canada, 2017.


• Shokoofeh Pourmehr, Jack Thomas, Jake Bruce, Jens Wawerla, and Richard Vaughan. "Robust Sensor Fusion for Finding HRI Partners in a Crowd," in IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). PDF. Singapore, 2017.


• Jake Bruce, Mani Monajjemi, Jens Wawerla, and Richard Vaughan. "Tiny People Finder: Long-Range Outdoor HRI By Periodicity Detection," in Conf. on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV). PDF. Video. Victoria, Canada, 2016.


• Mani Monajjemi, Jake Bruce, Seyed Abbas Sadat, Jens Wawerla, and Richard Vaughan. "UAV, Do You See Me? Establishing Mutual Attention Between an Uninstrumented Human and an Outdoor UAV In Flight," in IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). PDF. Hamburg, Germany, 2015.


• Jake Bruce, Jens Wawerla, and Richard Vaughan. "The SFU Mountain Dataset: Semi-Structured Woodland Trails Under Changing Environmental Conditions," in IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments. URL. PDF. Seattle, USA, 2015.


• Jake Bruce, Jens Wawerla, and Richard Vaughan. "Human-Robot Rendezvous by Co-operative Trajectory Signals," in 10th ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Workshop on Human-Robot Teaming. PDF. Portland, USA, 2015.