Denis Yarats
Co-founder and CTO · Perplexity
At a glance. Denis Yarats is listed as Co-founder and CTO at Perplexity. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Reinforcement learning, Evaluation and benchmarks and Agents. The source lists open-role pages for Perplexity.
Summary
Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity; first author of DrQ-v2 for reinforcement learning from pixels.
Known for: DrQ-v2; DrQ; DRACO benchmark.
Works at
- Perplexity 3 people in the wiki
Other documented roles
Not confirmed as current in the source profile.
- AI Research Scientist, Meta (Facebook AI Research)
Open roles
Related people
- Andy KonwinskiAlso at Perplexity
- Aravind SrinivasAlso at Perplexity
- Niko GrupenEvaluation and benchmarks · Agents
- Siddharth NarayananReinforcement learning · Agents
- Gabe PereyraAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- John YangAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Andrew LaackAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Kilian LieretAgents · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Shimon WhitesonReinforcement learning · Agents
- Mike KnoopEvaluation and benchmarks · Agents
Source and corrections
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