--- title: "Marc G. Bellemare — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Marc G. Bellemare: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2012–2021), h-index 31 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Marc G. Bellemare # Marc G. Bellemare Marc G. Bellemare has 3 papers in our library, in 2012–2021; often with [Joel Veness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-veness/), [Michael Bowling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bowling/), [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/). 3 papers in our library · 2012–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001087292) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6096-0105) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102429762) · [**h-index 31**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001087292) · [92 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001087292) · [36,844 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001087292&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 405 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1798](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/18/#star-1798) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Marc+G.+Bellemare) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Marc+G.+Bellemare) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Marc+G.+Bellemare) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Marc+G.+Bellemare) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2016–2024 · 41 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2014–2022 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 2007–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) · [🎓**University of Alberta** Edmonton · Canada 2011–2021 · 6 papersEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2019–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2019–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 2 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/year/2021/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/year/2017/) · [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/year/2012/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Arcade Learning Environment: An Evaluation Platform for General Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bellemare-2012-arcade-learning-environment-evaluation-platform/)** *(2012 · 1,257 citations)* The paper tackles the problem of fairly assessing AI agents meant to be broadly competent rather than tuned to a single task. 2. **[Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/machado-2017-revisiting-arcade-learning-environment-evaluation/)** *(2017 · 393 citations)* The Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) is a popular testbed for general AI agents that must play many Atari 2600 games without game-specific knowledge. 3. **[Deep Reinforcement Learning at the Edge of the Statistical Precipice](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2021-deep-reinforcement-learning-edge-statistical/)** *(2021 · 90 citations)* The authors examine how reliably algorithms are compared in deep RL when only a few runs per task are available. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[The Arcade Learning Environment: An Evaluation Platform for General Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bellemare-2012-arcade-learning-environment-evaluation-platform/) [Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/)**Marc G. Bellemare, Yavar Naddaf, Joel Veness, et al.*2012 · 1,257 citations* 2. **[Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/machado-2017-revisiting-arcade-learning-environment-evaluation/) [Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/)**Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, Erik Talvitie, et al.*2017 · 393 citations* 3. **[Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01868) arXiv:1606.01868 · no summary yet**Marc G. Bellemare et al.*2016 · 311 citations* 4. **[Autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2939-8) Nature · no summary yet**Marc G. Bellemare et al.*2020 · 296 citations* 5. **[Automated Curriculum Learning for Neural Networks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03003) arXiv:1704.03003 · no summary yet**Alex Graves et al.*2017 · 111 citations* 6. [**Deep Reinforcement Learning at the Edge of the Statistical Precipice arXiv:2108.13264**Rishabh Agarwal, Max Schwarzer, Pablo Samuel Castro, et al.*2021 · 90 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2021-deep-reinforcement-learning-edge-statistical/) 7. **[Investigating Contingency Awareness Using Atari 2600 Games ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v26i1.8321) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Marc G. Bellemare, Joel Veness, Michael Bowling*75 citations* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Joel Veness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-veness/) ×2 - [Michael Bowling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bowling/) ×2 - [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) - [Matthew Hausknecht](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-hausknecht/) - [Rishabh Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-agarwal/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/) ×2: [Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/2017/), [Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-artificial-intelligence-research/2012/) - Nature - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 405 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-g-bellemare/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026