Publications
Shane's research spans reinforcement learning, generative modeling, probabilistic inference, and large language model reasoning — often bridging these areas to develop algorithms that are both theoretically grounded and practically scalable. Early work focused on sample-efficient deep RL and Bayesian methods; later work extended into offline RL, robotic control, and LLM reasoning, culminating in contributions to frontier models like Gemini.
2025
Thaddäus Wiedemer, Yuxuan Li, Paul Vicol, Shixiang Shane Gu, Nick Matarese, Kevin Swersky, Been Kim, Priyank Jaini, Robert Geirhos
arXiv 2025
2024
Gemini Team, Google DeepMind
arXiv 2024
Hyung Won Chung, Le Hou, Shayne Longpre, Barret Zoph, Yi Tay, William Fedus, Shixiang Shane Gu et al.
JMLR 2024
Hiroki Furuta, Kuang-Huei Lee, Shixiang Shane Gu, Yutaka Matsuo, Aleksandra Faust, Heiga Zen, Izzeddin Gur
arXiv 2024
2023
Jiaxin Huang, Shixiang Shane Gu, Le Hou, Yuexin Wu, Xuezhi Wang, Hongkun Yu, Jiawei Han
EMNLP 2023
Paul Yoo, Jiaxian Guo, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu
NeurIPS 2023
Scott Fujimoto, Wei-Di Chang, Edward J. Smith, Shixiang Shane Gu, Doina Precup, David Meger
NeurIPS 2023
Kimin Lee, Hao Liu, Moonkyung Ryu, Olivia Watkins, Yuqing Du, Craig Boutilier, Pieter Abbeel, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Shixiang Shane Gu
arXiv 2023
Hiroki Furuta, Kuang-Huei Lee, Ofir Nachum, Yutaka Matsuo, Aleksandra Faust, Shixiang Shane Gu, Izzeddin Gur
ICLR 2023
Ruibo Liu, Jason Wei, Shixiang Shane Gu, Te-Yen Wu, Soroush Vosoughi, Claire Cui, Denny Zhou, Andrew M. Dai
ICLR 2023
2022
Naruya Kondo, So Kuroki, Ryosuke Hyakuta, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu, Yoichi Ochiai
arXiv 2022
BIG-Bench Collaboration
TMLR 2022
Takeshi Kojima, Shixiang Shane Gu, Machel Reid, Yutaka Matsuo, Yusuke Iwasawa
NeurIPS 2022
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Shixiang Shane Gu, Ofir Nachum
NeurIPS 2022
Scott Fujimoto, David Meger, Doina Precup, Ofir Nachum, Shixiang Shane Gu
ICML 2022
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Daniel Freeman, Byron David, Shixiang Shane Gu, Satoshi Kataoka, Igor Mordatch
ICML 2022
Hiroki Furuta, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu
ICLR 2022
2021
Naruya Kondo, Yuya Ikeda, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Yutaka Matsuo, Yoichi Ochiai, Shixiang Shane Gu
arXiv 2021
Scott Fujimoto, Shixiang Shane Gu
NeurIPS 2021
Hiroki Furuta, Tadashi Kozuno, Tatsuya Matsushima, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu
NeurIPS 2021
Hiroki Furuta, Tatsuya Matsushima, Tadashi Kozuno, Yutaka Matsuo, Sergey Levine, Ofir Nachum, Shixiang Shane Gu
ICML 2021
Jongwook Choi, Archit Sharma, Honglak Lee, Sergey Levine, Shixiang Shane Gu
ICML 2021
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Dale Schuurmans, Shixiang Shane Gu
ICML 2021
Tatsuya Matsushima, Hiroki Furuta, Yutaka Matsuo, Ofir Nachum, Shixiang Gu
ICLR 2021
2020
Lisa Lee, Benjamin Eysenbach, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Shixiang Shane Gu, Chelsea Finn
NeurIPS 2020
Natasha Jaques, Judy Hanwen Shen, Asma Ghandeharioun, Craig Ferguson, Agata Lapedriza, Noah Jones, Shixiang Shane Gu, Rosalind Picard
EMNLP 2020
Archit Sharma, Michael Ahn, Sergey Levine, Vikash Kumar, Karol Hausman, Shixiang Gu
RSS 2020
Archit Sharma, Shixiang Gu, Sergey Levine, Vikash Kumar, Karol Hausman
ICLR 2020
2019
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Richard Zemel, Shixiang Gu
CoRL 2019
Ofir Nachum, Michael Ahn, Hugo Ponte, Shixiang Gu, Vikash Kumar
CoRL 2019
SMILe: Scalable Meta Inverse RL through Context-Conditional Policies
Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Shixiang Gu, Richard Zemel
NeurIPS 2019
Yiding Jiang, Shixiang Gu, Kevin Murphy, Chelsea Finn
NeurIPS 2019
Ofir Nachum, Shixiang Gu, Honglak Lee, Sergey Levine
ICLR 2019
George Tucker, Dieterich Lawson, Shixiang Gu, Chris J. Maddison
ICLR 2019
2018
Ofir Nachum, Shixiang Gu, Honglak Lee, Sergey Levine
NeurIPS 2018
George Tucker, Surya Bhupatiraju, Shixiang Gu, Richard E. Turner, Zoubin Ghahramani, Sergey Levine
ICML 2018
Vitchyr Pong, Shixiang Gu, Murtaza Dalal, Sergey Levine
ICLR 2018
Benjamin Eysenbach, Shixiang Gu, Julian Ibarz, Sergey Levine
ICLR 2018
2017
Shixiang Gu, Timothy Lillicrap, Zoubin Ghahramani, Richard E. Turner, Bernhard Schölkopf, Sergey Levine
NIPS 2017
Natasha Jaques, Shixiang Gu, Dzmitry Bahdanau, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Richard E. Turner, Douglas Eck
ICML 2017
Shixiang Gu, Timothy Lillicrap, Zoubin Ghahramani, Richard E. Turner, Sergey Levine
ICLR 2017
Shixiang Gu, Ethan Holly, Timothy Lillicrap, Sergey Levine
ICRA 2017
2016
Shixiang Gu, Timothy Lillicrap, Ilya Sutskever, Sergey Levine
ICML 2016
Shixiang Gu, Sergey Levine, Ilya Sutskever, Andriy Mnih
ICLR 2016
2015
Nilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu, Hong Ge, Zoubin Ghahramani
NIPS 2015