Deepmind Technologies Limited

Ola Spyra

Maxwell Elliot Jaderberg

Timothy James Alexander Harley

Chenjie Gu

David Budden

Valentin Clement Dalibard

Sagi Perel

Ang Li

Pramod Gupta

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a machine learning model. A method includes: maintaining a plurality of training sessions; assigning, to each worker of one or more workers, a respective training session of the plurality of training sessions; repeatedly performing operations until meeting one or more termination criteria, the operations comprising: receiving an updated training session from a respective worker of the one or more workers, selecting a second training session, selecting, based on comparing the updated training session and the second training session using a fitness evaluation function, either the updated training session or the second training session as a parent training session, generating a child training session from the selected parent training session, and assigning the child training session to an available worker, and selecting a candidate model to be a trained model for the machine learning model.

Population-based training of machine learning models

Growing community of inventors

Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Ola Spyra