Andrea Tacchetti

About

I am a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind. My research focuses Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, Social Perception and Relational Reasoning.

I obtained my PhD from MIT where I was part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. My thesis advisor was Tomaso Poggio.

Before Graduate School I was part of the Equipment Controls and Electronic section in the Engineering Department at CERN.

During my time at MIT, raced bikes for the MIT Cycling Tream where I also served as Vice President. In the past I have been the organizer of the Machine Learning Tea at MIT.

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Publications

Pre-prints

Learning to Play No-Press Diplomacy with Best Response Policy Iteration. Anthony T*, Eccles T*, Tacchetti A, Kramár J, Gemp I, Hudson TC, Porcel N, Lanctot M, Pérolat J, Everett J, Singh S, Graepel T, Bachrach Y. 2020
A Neural Architecture for Designing Truthful and Efficient Auctions. Tacchetti A, Strouse DJ, Garnelo M, Graepel T, Bachrach Y. 2019
Relational Forward Models for Multi-Agent Learning. Tacchetti A*, Song H F*, Mediano P A M*, Zambaldi V, Rabinowitz N C, Graepel T, Botvinick M, Battaglia P W. 2018
Visual Interaction Networks. Watters N, Tacchetti A, Weber T, Pascanu R, Battaglia P, Zoran D. 2017
Invariant recognition drives neural representations of action sequences. Tacchetti A*, Isik L* Poggio T. 2017
Discriminiate-and-rectify Encoders: Learning from Image Transfromation Sets. Tacchetti A*, Voinea S*, Evangelopoulos G. 2017
Fast, invariant representations for human actions in the visual system. Isik L*, Tacchetti A*, Poggio T. 2016
Regularization by Early Stopping for Online Learning Algorithms. Rosasco L, Tacchetti A, Villa S. 2014 (updated version by Rosasco L, and Villa S. 2015)
Does invariant recognition predict tuning of neurons in sensory cortex? Poggio T, Mutch J, Anselmi F, Tacchetti A, Rosasco R, Leibo J. 2013
Unsupervised learning of invariant representations in hierarchical architectures. Anselmi F, Joel L, Rosasco L, Mutch J, Tacchetti A, Poggio T. 2013

Conference Papers

Should I tear down this wall? Optimizing social metrics by evaluating novel actions. Kramár J, Rabinowitz N, Eccles T, Tacchetti A. International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE) 2020.
Relational Forward Models for Multi-agent learning. Tacchetti A, Song HF, Mediano, PAM, Zambaldi V, Kramár, Rabinowitz NC, Graepel T, Botvinick M, Battaglia PW. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2019.
Trading robust representations for sample complexity through self-supervised visual experience. Tacchetti A, Voinea S, Evangelopoulos G. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018
Visual Interaction Networks: Learning a Physics Simulator from Video. Watters N, Tacchetti A, Weber T, Pascanu R, Battaglia P, Zoran D. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2017
Invariant recognition drives neural representations of action sequences. Isik L*, Tacchetti A*, Poggio T. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2017
Representation Learning from Orbit Sets for One-Shot Classification. Tacchetti A*, Voinea S*, Evangelopoulos G, Poggio T. 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2017
Invariant representations for action recognition in the visual system. Tacchetti A*, Isik L*, Poggio, T. Journal of Vision (Oral Presentation at VSS), 2015
Invariant representations for action recognition in the visual system. Isik L*, Tacchetti A*, Poggio, T. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), 2015
Invariant representations of action recognition. Isik L*, Tacchetti A*, Poggio T. Society for Neuroscience, 2014.
Readout of dynamic action sequences using MEG decoding. Isik L, Tacchetti A, Poggio T. Biomagnetism, 2014.
Implementation and tuning of the Extended Kalman Filter for a sensorless drive working with arbitrary stepper motors and cable lengths. Butcher M, Masi A, Martino M, Tacchetti A. International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM). 2012.
GURLS: a Toolbox for Large Scale Multiclass Learning. Tacchetti A, Mallapragada P, Santoro M, Rosasco L. NeurIPS Workshop on Parallel and Large-Scale Machine Learning. 2011

Journal Papers

Invariant Recognition Shapes Neural Representations of Visual Input. Tacchetti A, Isik L, Poggio T. Annual Reviews of Vision Science
Invariant recognition drives neural representations of action sequences. Tacchetti A*, Isik L*, Poggio T. PLOS Computational Biology, 2017
A fast, invariant representation for human action in the visual system. Isik L*, Tacchetti A*, Poggio T. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2017 (selected for APSselect, a collection from the APS that showcases some of the best recently published articles in physiological research).
Unsupervised learning or invariant representations. Anselmi F, Leibo J, Rosasco L, Mutch J, Tacchetti A, Poggio T. Theoretical Computer Science, 2015.
GURLS: A Least Squares Library for Supervised Learining. Tacchetti A, Mallapragada P, Santoro M, Rosasco L. Journal of Machine Learning Research 14, 3201-3205, 2013.

Book Chapters

Invariant Recognition Predicts Tuning of Neurons in Sensory Cortex. Mutch J, Anselmi F, Tacchetti A, Rosasco L, Leibo J, Poggio T. Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision, 2016.

Thesis

Learning Invariant Representations of Actions and Faces. Tacchetti A. PhD Thesis, MIT, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.

Popular Press

DeepMind sets AI loose on Diplomacy board game, and collaboration is key. R. Dallon Adams. TechRepublic. 2020
DeepMind hopes to teach AI to cooperate by playing Diplomacy. Kyle Wiggers. Venture Beat. 2020
Want to understand the mind of another? Get relational!. Jack Clark. Import AI. 2018
Forget AlphaGo — DeepMind Has a More Interesting Step Toward General AI. Will Knight, MIT Technology Review. 2017
Machines that learn like people. Larry Hardesty, MIT News. 2015 (picked up by PHYS.ORG)