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Igor Babuschkin
Researcher at University of Manchester
Publications - 177
Citations - 9672
Igor Babuschkin is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Branching fraction & Meson. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 173 publications receiving 6585 citations.
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Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Oriol Vinyals,Igor Babuschkin,Wojciech Marian Czarnecki,Michael Mathieu,Andrew Dudzik,Junyoung Chung,David H. Choi,Richard E. Powell,Timo Ewalds,Petko Georgiev,Junhyuk Oh,Dan Horgan,Manuel Kroiss,Ivo Danihelka,Aja Huang,Laurent Sifre,Trevor Cai,John P. Agapiou,Max Jaderberg,Alexander Vezhnevets,Rémi Leblond,Tobias Pohlen,Valentin Dalibard,David Budden,Yury Sulsky,James Molloy,Tom Le Paine,Caglar Gulcehre,Ziyu Wang,Tobias Pfaff,Yuhuai Wu,Roman Ring,Dani Yogatama,Dario Wünsch,Katrina McKinney,Oliver Smith,Tom Schaul,Timothy P. Lillicrap,Koray Kavukcuoglu,Demis Hassabis,Chris Apps,David Silver +41 more
TL;DR: The agent, AlphaStar, is evaluated, which uses a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm and has reached Grandmaster level, ranking among the top 0.2% of human players for the real-time strategy game StarCraft II.
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Test of lepton universality with $B^{0} \rightarrow K^{*0}\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ decays
Roel Aaij,B. Adeva,Marco Adinolfi,Ziad Ajaltouni,Simon Akar,Johannes Albrecht,Federico Alessio,Michael Alexander,S. Ali,G. Alkhazov,P. Alvarez Cartelle,A. A. Alves,Sandra Amato,S. Amerio,Yasmine Amhis,Liupan An,Lucio Anderlini,Guido Andreassi,M. Andreotti,J. E. Andrews,R. B. Appleby,Flavio Archilli,P. d'Argent,J. Arnau Romeu,A. Artamonov,Marina Artuso,Elie Aslanides,G. Auriemma,M. Baalouch,Igor Babuschkin,Sebastian Bachmann,John Back,A. Badalov,C. Baesso,S. Baker,Vladislav Balagura,W. Baldini,Alexander Baranov,Roger Barlow,C. Barschel,Sergey Barsuk,William Barter,Fedor Baryshnikov,Mateusz Baszczyk,Varvara Batozskaya,Vincenzo Battista,A. Bay,L. Beaucourt,J. Beddow,Franco Bedeschi,Ignacio Bediaga,Andrew Beiter,Lennaert Bel,Violaine Bellee,Nicoletta Belloli,K. Belous,Ivan Belyaev,E. Ben-Haim,G. Bencivenni,Sean Benson,Sarah Beranek,Alexander Berezhnoy,Roland Bernet,Daniel Berninghoff,A. Bertolin,Christopher Betancourt,Federico Betti,Marc-Olivier Bettler,M. van Beuzekom,Ia. Bezshyiko,Simone Bifani,Pierre Billoir,Alex Birnkraut,A. Bitadze,Andrea Bizzeti,Thomas Blake,F. Blanc,J. Blouw,S. Blusk,V. Bocci,T. Boettcher,A.E. Bondar,Nikolay Bondar,W. Bonivento,Igor Bordyuzhin,Alessio Borgheresi,Silvia Borghi,Maxim Borisyak,Martino Borsato,M. Borysova,F. Bossu,M. Boubdir,Themistocles Bowcock,E. Bowen,C. Bozzi,Svende Braun,T. Britton,Jolanta Brodzicka,Emma Buchanan +98 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a test of lepton universality, performed by measuring the ratio of the branching fractions of the $B^{0} \rightarrow K^{*0}\mu+}\mu^{+}e^{-}$ decays, is presented.
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Test of lepton universality with B 0 → K *0 ℓ + ℓ − decays
Roel Aaij,Bernardo Adeva,Marco Adinolfi,Ziad Ajaltouni,Simon Akar,Johannes Albrecht,Federico Alessio,Michael Alexander,S. Ali,G. Alkhazov,P. Alvarez Cartelle,A. A. Alves,Sandra Amato,S. Amerio,Yasmine Amhis,Liupan An,Lucio Anderlini,Guido Andreassi,M. Andreotti,J. E. Andrews,Robert Appleby,F. Archilli,Philippe d'Argent,J. Arnau Romeu,A. Artamonov,Marina Artuso,Elie Aslanides,G. Auriemma,Marouen Baalouch,Igor Babuschkin,Sebastian Bachmann,John Back,Alexey Badalov,Clarissa Baesso,Simon Baker,Vladislav Balagura,Vladislav Balagura,Wander Baldini,Alexander Baranov,Roger Barlow,Colin Barschel,Sergey Barsuk,William Barter,Fedor Baryshnikov,Mateusz Baszczyk,Mateusz Baszczyk,Varvara Batozskaya,Vincenzo Battista,A. Bay,L. Beaucourt,J. Beddow,F. Bedeschi,Ignacio Bediaga,Andrew Beiter,Lennaert Bel,Violaine Bellee,Nicoletta Belloli,Nicoletta Belloli,K. Belous,Ivan Belyaev,E. Ben-Haim,G. Bencivenni,S. Benson,Sarah Beranek,Alexander Berezhnoy,Roland Bernet,Daniel Berninghoff,Alessandro Bertolin,Christopher Betancourt,Federico Betti,Marc-Olivier Bettler,M. van Beuzekom,Ia. Bezshyiko,Simone Bifani,Pierre Billoir,Alex Birnkraut,A. Bitadze,Andrea Bizzeti,Thomas Blake,F. Blanc,J. Blouw,S. Blusk,V. Bocci,T. Boettcher,Alexander Bondar,Alexander Bondar,Nikolay Bondar,W. Bonivento,Igor Bordyuzhin,Alessio Borgheresi,Alessio Borgheresi,Silvia Borghi,M. Borisyak,Martino Borsato,M. Borysova,Francesco Bossu,M. Boubdir,Themistocles Bowcock,E. Bowen,C. Bozzi,Svende Braun,T. Britton,Jolanta Brodzicka,Emma Buchanan,C. Burr,Albert Bursche,J. Buytaert,Wiktor Byczynski,S. Cadeddu,Huacheng Cai,R. Calabrese,Ryan Calladine,Marta Calvi,Marta Calvi,M. Calvo Gomez,M. Calvo Gomez,Alessandro Camboni,P. Campana,D. Campora Perez,Lorenzo Capriotti,A. Carbone,Giovanni Carboni,Roberta Cardinale,Alessandro Cardini,Paolo Carniti,Paolo Carniti,Laurence Carson,K. Carvalho Akiba,Gianluigi Casse,L. Cassina,L. Cassina,L. Castillo Garcia,Marco Cattaneo,Giovanni Cavallero,Giovanni Cavallero,R. Cenci,David Chamont,Matthew Charles,Ph. Charpentier,Georgios Chatzikonstantinidis,Maximilien Chefdeville,Sai-Juan Chen,Shu-Faye Cheung,Veronika Chobanova,Marcin Chrzaszcz,Marcin Chrzaszcz,Alexsei Chubykin,X. Cid Vidal,Gregory Ciezarek,Peter Clarke,Marco Clemencic,Harry Cliff,Joel Closier,Victor Coco,Julien Cogan,E. Cogneras,V. Cogoni,L. Cojocariu,P. Collins,Tommaso Colombo,A. Comerma-Montells,Andrea Contu,Andrew Cook,George Coombs,Samuel Coquereau,Gloria Corti,Marco Corvo,C. M. Costa Sobral,Benjamin Couturier,G. A. Cowan,Daniel Charles Craik,Andrew Crocombe,M. Cruz Torres,S. Cunliffe,Robert Currie,Carmelo D'Ambrosio,F. Da Cunha Marinho,Elena Dall'Occo,J. Dalseno,Adam Davis,O. De Aguiar Francisco,K. De Bruyn,S. De Capua,M. De Cian,J. M. De Miranda,L. De Paula,M. De Serio,P. De Simone,Cameron Thomas Dean,D. Decamp,Mirko Deckenhoff,L. Del Buono,H.-P. Dembinski,Moritz Demmer,Adam Dendek,Denis Derkach,Olivier Deschamps,Francesco Dettori,Biplab Dey,A. Di Canto,P. Di Nezza,Hans Dijkstra,Francesca Dordei,Mirco Dorigo,A. Dosil Suárez,Lauren Douglas,Anatoliy Dovbnya,Karlis Dreimanis,Laurent Dufour,Giulio Dujany,Kevin Dungs,Paolo Durante,R. Dzhelyadin,Michal Dziewiecki,Agnieszka Dziurda,Alexey Dzyuba,Nicolas Déléage,Sajan Easo,M. Ebert,Ulrik Egede,Victor Egorychev,Semen Eidelman,Semen Eidelman,Stephan Eisenhardt,Ulrich Eitschberger,Robert Ekelhof,Lars Eklund,S. Ely,Sevda Esen,Hal Evans,Timothy Evans,Antonio Falabella,N. Farley,S. Farry,R. Fay,Davide Fazzini,Davide Fazzini,Luca Federici,Dianne Ferguson,Gerard Fernandez,P. Fernandez Declara,A. Fernandez Prieto,Fabio Ferrari,F. Ferreira Rodrigues,M. Ferro-Luzzi,S. Filippov,R. A. Fini,Marco Fiore,Massimiliano Fiorini,Miroslaw Firlej,Conor Fitzpatrick,Tomasz Fiutowski,F. Fleuret,Klaus Fohl,Marianna Fontana,Flavio Fontanelli,Dean Charles Forshaw,Roger Forty,V. Franco Lima,Markus Frank,Christoph Frei,J. L. Fu,Wolfgang Funk,Emiliano Furfaro,C. Färber,Emmy Gabriel,A. Gallas Torreira,Domenico Galli,Stefano Gallorini,S. Gambetta,M. Gandelman,Paolo Gandini,Y. N. Gao,L. M. Garcia Martin,J. García Pardiñas,J. Garra Tico,L. Garrido,Philip John Garsed,David Gascon,C. Gaspar,Laura Gavardi,Giulio Gazzoni,David Gerick,Evelina Gersabeck,Marco Gersabeck,Timothy Gershon,Ph. Ghez,S. Gianì,Valerie Gibson,Olivier Göran Girard,Lavinia-Helena Giubega,Konstantin Gizdov,Vladimir Gligorov,Dmitry Golubkov,Andrey Golutvin,Andrey Golutvin,A. Gomes,I. V. Gorelov,Claudio Gotti,Claudio Gotti,E. Govorkova,R. Graciani Diaz,L. A. Granado Cardoso,E. Grauges,Elena Graverini,Giacomo Graziani,Alexandru Grecu,Roman Greim,Peter Griffith,Lucia Grillo,Lucia Grillo,Lucia Grillo,Lukas Gruber,B. R. Gruberg Cazon,O. Grünberg,Evgeny Gushchin,Yu. Guz,Thierry Gys,Carla Göbel,Thomas Hadavizadeh,Christos Hadjivasiliou,Guido Haefeli,Christophe Haen,S. C. Haines,B. Hamilton,Xiaoxue Han,Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer,Neville Harnew,S. T. Harnew,Jonathan Harrison,Mark Hatch,J. He,Timothy Head,A. Heister,Karol Hennessy,Pierre Henrard,Louis Henry,E. van Herwijnen,Miriam Heß,Adlène Hicheur,Donal Hill,Christoph Hombach,Plamen Hristov Hopchev,Z. C. Huard,Wouter Hulsbergen,Thibaud Humair,Mikhail Hushchyn,David Hutchcroft,Marek Idzik,Philip Ilten,Richard Jacobsson,J. Jalocha,Eddy Jans,A. Jawahery,Feng Jiang,Malcolm John,Daniel Johnson,Christopher Jones,Christian Joram,Beat Jost,Nathan Jurik,Sergii Kandybei,Matthias Karacson,James Mwangi Kariuki,S. Karodia,Matthieu Kecke,Matthew Kelsey,Matthew Kenzie,Tjeerd Ketel,Egor Khairullin,B. Khanji,Chitsanu Khurewathanakul,Thomas Kirn,Suzanne Klaver,Konrad Klimaszewski,Tatsiana Klimkovich,Serhii Koliiev,Michael Kolpin,Ilya Komarov,Renata Kopecna,Patrick Koppenburg,Alena Kosmyntseva,Sofia Kotriakhova,Mohamad Kozeiha,Leonid Kravchuk,M. Kreps,Pavel Krokovny,Pavel Krokovny,Florian Kruse,Wojciech Krzemien,Wojciech Kucewicz,Wojciech Kucewicz,Marcin Kucharczyk,Vasily Kudryavtsev,Vasily Kudryavtsev,Axel Kevin Kuonen,Krzysztof Kurek,Tengiz Kvaratskheliya,Tengiz Kvaratskheliya,Daniel Lacarrere,George Lafferty,A. Lai,Gaia Lanfranchi,Christoph Langenbruch,Thomas Latham,Cristina Lazzeroni,R. Le Gac,J. van Leerdam,Alexander Leflat,Alexander Leflat,Jacques Lefrançois,R. Lefèvre,Florian Lemaitre,E. Lemos Cid,Olivier Leroy,T. Lesiak,Blake Leverington,Tjonnie G. F. Li,Yang Li,Zhuoming Li,Tatiana Likhomanenko,Tatiana Likhomanenko,R. Lindner,Federica Lionetto,Xuesong Liu,David Loh,Iain Longstaff,Jose Lopes,Donatella Lucchesi,M. Lucio Martinez,Haiyun Luo,Anna Lupato,Eleonora Luppi,Oliver Lupton,Alberto Lusiani,Xiao-Rui Lyu,Frederic Machefert,Florin Maciuc,B. Maddock,Oleg Maev,Kevin Maguire,Sneha Malde,Alexander Malinin,Timofei Maltsev,G. Manca,Giampiero Mancinelli,P. Manning,Daniele Marangotto,Jan Maratas,Jean François Marchand,U. Marconi,C. Marin Benito,Matthieu Marinangeli,Pietro Marino,J. Marks,G. Martellotti,Morgan Martin,Maurizio Martinelli,D. Martinez Santos,F. Martinez Vidal,D. Martins Tostes,L. M. Massacrier,A. Massafferri,Rosen Matev,Abhijit Mathad,Z. Mathe,C. Matteuzzi,Andrea Mauri,Emilie Maurice,Brice Maurin,Alexander Mazurov,Michael McCann,Michael McCann,Andrew McNab,R. McNulty,Brian Meadows,Frank Meier,Dmytro Melnychuk,Marcel Merk,Andrea Merli,Andrea Merli,Emanuele Michielin,D. A. Milanes,M. N. Minard,Dominik Stefan Mitzel,Andrea Mogini,J. Molina Rodriguez,I. A. Monroy,S. Monteil,Mauro Morandin,Michael Joseph Morello,Olga Morgunova,Jakub Moron,A. B. Morris,R. Mountain,Franz Muheim,Mick Mulder,M. Mussini,Dominik Müller,Janine Müller,Katharina Müller,Vanessa Müller,Paras Naik,Tatsuya Nakada,R. Nandakumar,Anita Nandi,Irina Nasteva,Matthew Needham,Nicola Neri,Sebastian Neubert,Niko Neufeld,Max Neuner,T. D. Nguyen,C. Nguyen-Mau,C. Nguyen-Mau,Simon Nieswand,Ramon Niet,Nikolay Nikitin,Thomas Nikodem,Alla Nogay,Daniel Patrick O'Hanlon,Agnieszka Oblakowska-Mucha,V. Obraztsov,Stephen Ogilvy,R. Oldeman,C. J. G. Onderwater,Anna Ossowska,J. M. Otalora Goicochea,P. Owen,A. Oyanguren,Preema Rennee Pais,A. Palano,Matteo Palutan,Antonios Papanestis,M. Pappagallo,Luciano Pappalardo,Cheryl Pappenheimer,William Parker,C. Parkes,G. Passaleva,Alessandra Pastore,Maulik R. Patel,C. Patrignani,Alex Pearce,A. Pellegrino,Gianni Penso,M. Pepe Altarelli,Stefano Perazzini,Pascal Perret,Luca Pescatore,K. Petridis,Alessandro Petrolini,Alexey A. Petrov,Marco Petruzzo,E. Picatoste Olloqui,B. Pietrzyk,M. Pikies,Davide Pinci,Alessandro Pistone,Alessio Piucci,Vlad-Mihai Placinta,S. Playfer,M. Plo Casasus,T. Poikela,Francesco Polci,M. Poli Lener,Anton Poluektov,Anton Poluektov,Ivan Polyakov,Erica Polycarpo,Gabriela Johanna Pomery,Sebastien Ponce,Alexander D. Popov,Dmitry Popov,Dmitry Popov,Stanislav Poslavskii,C. Potterat,E. Price,Jessica Prisciandaro,Claire Prouve,Valery Pugatch,A. Puig Navarro,Giovanni Punzi,W. Qian,Renato Quagliani,Renato Quagliani,B. Rachwal,Jonas Rademacker,Matteo Rama,M. Ramos Pernas,Murilo Rangel,Iurii Raniuk,Fedor Ratnikov,G. Raven,M. Ravonel Salzgeber,Meril Reboud,Federico Redi,Stefanie Reichert,A. C. dos Reis,C. Remon Alepuz,Victor Renaudin,S. Ricciardi,S. Richards,M. Rihl,Kurt Rinnert,V. Rives Molina,Patrick Robbe,Ana Barbara Rodrigues,Eduardo Rodrigues,J. A. Rodriguez Lopez,P. Rodriguez Perez,A. Rogozhnikov,Stefan Roiser,Alexandra Paige Rollings,Vladimir Romanovskiy,A. Romero Vidal,John William Ronayne,Marcello Rotondo,Matthew Scott Rudolph,T. Ruf,P. Ruiz Valls,J. J. Saborido Silva,Elnur Sadykhov,Naylya Sagidova,Biagio Saitta,V. Salustino Guimaraes,D. Sanchez Gonzalo,C. Sanchez Mayordomo,B. Sanmartin Sedes,R. Santacesaria,C. Santamarina Rios,Marco Santimaria,Emanuele Santovetti,Gediminas Sarpis,Alessio Sarti,C. Satriano,Alessia Satta,D. M. Saunders,Darya Savrina,Darya Savrina,Stefan Schael,Margarete Schellenberg,Manuel Schiller,Heinrich Schindler,Maximilian Schlupp,Michael Schmelling,Timon Schmelzer,B. Schmidt,O. Schneider,A. Schopper,H. F. Schreiner,Konstantin Schubert,Maxime Schubiger,Marie Helene Schune,Rainer Schwemmer,Barbara Sciascia,Adalberto Sciubba,Alexander Semennikov,A. Sergi,Nicola Serra,J. Serrano,Lorenzo Sestini,Paul Seyfert,M. Shapkin,Illya Shapoval,Yury Shcheglov,Tara Shears,Lev Shekhtman,Lev Shekhtman,V.G. Shevchenko,Benedetto Gianluca Siddi,R. Silva Coutinho,L. Silva de Oliveira,Gabriele Simi,S. Simone,Marek Sirendi,Nicola Skidmore,T. Skwarnicki,Eluned Smith,Iwan Thomas Smith,J. R. Smith,Mark Smith,l. Soares Lavra,Michael Sokoloff,F. J. P. Soler,B. Souza De Paula,B. Spaan,P. Spradlin,S. Sridharan,Federico Stagni,Marian Stahl,Stephen M. Stahl,Pavol Stefko,Slavomira Stefkova,O. Steinkamp,Simon Stemmle,Oleg Stenyakin,Holger Stevens,Sheldon Stone,Barbara Storaci,S. Stracka,Maria Elena Stramaglia,Mihai Straticiuc,U. Straumann,L. Sun,William Sutcliffe,Krzysztof Swientek,Vasileios Syropoulos,Marek Szczekowski,Tomasz Szumlak,Maciej Pawel Szymanski,Stephane T'Jampens,Andrey Tayduganov,Tobias Tekampe,Giulia Tellarini,Frederic Teubert,E. G. Thomas,J. van Tilburg,Matthew James Tilley,V. Tisserand,M. Tobin,S. Tolk,Luca Tomassetti,D. Tonelli,Stig Topp-Joergensen,Francis Toriello,R. Tourinho Jadallah Aoude,E. Tournefier,Stephane Tourneur,K. Trabelsi,M. Traill,Minh Tâm Tran,Marco Tresch,Ana Trisovic,Andrei Tsaregorodtsev,Panagiotis Tsopelas,Alison Tully,Niels Tuning,Artur Ukleja,Andrey Ustyuzhanin,U. Uwer,Claudia Vacca,Alexander Vagner,Vincenzo Vagnoni,A. Valassi,Sebastien Valat,Giovanni Valenti,R. Vazquez Gomez,P. Vazquez Regueiro,Stefania Vecchi,M. van Veghel,Jaap Velthuis,M. Veltri,Giovanni Veneziano,Aravindhan Venkateswaran,T. A. Verlage,Maxime Vernet,Mika Vesterinen,J. V. Viana Barbosa,Benoit Viaud,Daniel Vieira,M. Vieites Diaz,Harald Viemann,Xavier Vilasis-Cardona,Xavier Vilasis-Cardona,Marcela Vitti,Vladimir Volkov,A. Vollhardt,Balazs Voneki,A. Vorobyev,Vitaly Vorobyev,Vitaly Vorobyev,Christian Voß,J. A. de Vries,C. Vázquez Sierra,Roland Waldi,Charlotte Wallace,Ronan Wallace,J. J. Walsh,Jing Wang,David Ward,Heather Mckenzie Wark,Nigel Watson,David Websdale,Andreas Weiden,Mark Whitehead,J. Wicht,Guy Wilkinson,Guy Wilkinson,Mike J. Wilkinson,Mark Richard James Williams,M. P. Williams,Thomas N. Williams,Fergus Wilson,J. Wimberley,M. Winn,Julian Wishahi,Wojciech Wislicki,Mariusz Witek,G. Wormser,S. A. Wotton,Kenneth Wraight,Kenneth Wyllie,Yuehong Xie,Zhirui Xu,Zishuo Yang,Yuezhe Yao,Hang Yin,J. M. Yu,Xuhao Yuan,O. Yushchenko,Kristian Alexander Zarebski,Mikhail Zavertyaev,Mikhail Zavertyaev,L. Zhang,Yanxi Zhang,Alexey Zhelezov,Y. H. Zheng,Xiaofeng Zhu,V. Zhukov,Jennifer Brigitta Zonneveld,Stefano Zucchelli +821 more
TL;DR: In this article, a test of lepton universality is performed by measuring the ratio of the branching fractions of the B$0$ → K$*0}$ e$+}$ π$−}$ decays, and the ratio is measured in two regions of the dilepton invariant mass squared.
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Competition-level code generation with AlphaCode
Yujia Li,David H. Choi,Junyoung Chung,Nate Kushman,Julian Schrittwieser,Rémi Leblond,Tom,Eccles,James Keeling,Felix Gimeno,Agustin Dal Lago,Thomas Hubert,Peter Choy,Cyprien de,Masson d’Autume,Igor Babuschkin,Xinyun Chen,Po-Sen Huang,Johannes Welbl,Sven Gowal,Alexey,Cherepanov,James L. Molloy,Daniel J. Mankowitz,Esme Sutherland Robson,Pushmeet Kohli,Nando de,Freitas,Koray Kavukcuoglu,Oriol Vinyals +29 more
TL;DR: Yujia Li*, David Choi*, Junyoung Chung*, Nate Kushman*, Julian Schrittwieser*, Rémi Leblond*, Tom Eccles*, James Keeling*, Felix Gimeno*, Agustin Dal Lago*, Thomas Hubert*, Peter Choy*, Cyprien de Masson d’Autume*, Igor Babuschkin, Xinyun Chen
Proceedings Article
Parallel WaveNet: Fast High-Fidelity Speech Synthesis
Aaron van den Oord,Yazhe Li,Igor Babuschkin,Karen Simonyan,Oriol Vinyals,Koray Kavukcuoglu,George van den Driessche,Edward Lockhart,Luis C. Cobo,Florian Stimberg,Norman Casagrande,Dominik Grewe,Seb Noury,Sander Dieleman,Erich Elsen,Nal Kalchbrenner,Heiga Zen,Alex Graves,Helen King,Thomas C. Walters,Dan Belov,Demis Hassabis +21 more
TL;DR: The authors introduced Probability Density Distillation, a new method for training a parallel feed-forward network from a trained WaveNet with no significant difference in quality, which is capable of generating high-fidelity speech samples at more than 20 times faster than real-time, and is deployed online by Google Assistant.