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Marc Lanctot

Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

Co-author, AlphaZero

Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

Labs

Google DeepMind

Topics

Reinforcement Learning

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Last updated

March 20, 2026

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Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithmpaper

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Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

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Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

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DeepMind

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RL

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Reinforcement Learning

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Planning

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Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithmpaper

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Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

Google DeepMind Reinforcement Learning

Start HereMastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

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Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

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Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

Google DeepMind Reinforcement Learning

Start HereMastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Shared canonical source

Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

1 source

Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

Google DeepMind Reinforcement Learning

Start HereMastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Shared canonical source

Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

1 source

Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

Google DeepMind Reinforcement Learning

Start HereMastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Shared canonical source

Self-play RL with search (AlphaZero)

1 source

Co-authored AlphaZero: a canonical reference for self-play + search in RL.

Google DeepMind Reinforcement Learning

Start HereMastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Shared lab

Deep RL, planning, games

3 sources

A central figure in modern reinforcement learning whose work turned deep RL from an exciting idea into a line of systems that repeatedly reset expectations.

Google DeepMind Multimodal Systems & Infrastructure

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