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title: "DeepMind Control Suite: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 25 archived papers mentioned DeepMind Control Suite in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2024 (2)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/deepmind-control-suite
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license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 25 archived papers mentioned DeepMind Control Suite in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2024 (2). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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---

# DeepMind Control Suite

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/2.md)

Simulators and benchmark suites for training and comparing reinforcement learning agents.

- data category: Reinforcement learning environments
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: DeepMind Control Suite, DMControl

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Reinforcement learning environments datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/reinforcement-learning-environments.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 25 archived papers mentioned DeepMind Control Suite in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2024 (2).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned DeepMind Control Suite in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), DeepMind Control Suite was mentioned in 32 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (32).
- 9 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Tianjin University (3), Chinese Academy of Sciences (2) and Jilin University (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Neural Networks (5), Expert Systems with Applications (4) and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (4).
- The most-cited of them is “Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Algorithms” (IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2024), with 84 citations.
- Papers use DeepMind Control Suite most often with MuJoCo (13), Atari (Arcade Learning Environment) (10) and OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium (7); it has 5 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 9 | 10 | 6 | 25 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 4 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 4 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 5 |
| 2 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 4 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2 |
| 7 | [Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Machine Learning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/machine-learning.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 3 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 2 |
| 3 | [Jilin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/jilin-university.md) | 2 |
| 4 | [Microsoft Research Asia (China)](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/microsoft-research-asia-china.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 2 |
| 6 | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | 2 |
| 7 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 2 |
| 8 | [Xiamen University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xiamen-university.md) | 2 |
| 9 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research | 1 |
| 10 | [Anhui University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/anhui-university.md) | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 21 |
| 2 | United States | 6 |
| 3 | Australia | 3 |
| 4 | Canada | 2 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 2 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| 7 | Brazil | 1 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 1 |
| 9 | Germany | 1 |
| 10 | Spain | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | DeepMind Control Suite | 9 |
| 2 | sample efficiency | 8 |
| 3 | [deep reinforcement learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/deep-reinforcement-learning.md) | 5 |
| 4 | visual reinforcement learning | 5 |
| 5 | data efficiency | 4 |
| 6 | [generalization](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generalization.md) | 4 |
| 7 | offline reinforcement learning | 4 |
| 8 | continuous control | 3 |
| 9 | [exploration-exploitation balance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/exploration-exploitation-balance.md) | 3 |
| 10 | intrinsic rewards | 3 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 84 | 3.1 | [Bridging Evolutionary Algorithms and Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Hybrid Algorithms](https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2024.3443913) | [IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-evolutionary-computation.md) | 2024-08-14 | Pengyi Li, Jianye Hao, Hongyao Tang et al. |
| 2 | 82 | 4.6 | [A survey on physics informed reinforcement learning: Review and open problems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128166) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2025-05-14 | Chayan Banerjee, Kien Nguyen, Clinton Fookes et al. |
| 3 | 71 | 1.2 | [Masked Contrastive Representation Learning for Reinforcement Learning](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3176413) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-01-01 | Jinhua Zhu, Yingce Xia, Lijun Wu et al. |
| 4 | 50 | 8.0 | [A Survey on Vision--Language--Action Models for Embodied AI](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2025.3650584) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2026-04-28 | Yueen Ma, Zixing Song, Yuzheng Zhuang et al. |
| 5 | 36 | 1.0 | [From distributed machine to distributed deep learning: a comprehensive survey](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00829-x) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2023-10-13 | Mohammad Dehghani, Zahra Yazdanparast |

## Used together with

Papers use DeepMind Control Suite most often with MuJoCo (13), Atari (Arcade Learning Environment) (10) and OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium (7); it has 5 partners in the code and data network, in the group around ImageNet, CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100, MNIST / Fashion-MNIST.

*What papers use DeepMind Control Suite together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [MuJoCo](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mujoco.md) | Dataset | 13 | 129.6 |
| [Atari (Arcade Learning Environment)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/atari-arcade-learning-environment.md) | Dataset | 10 | 116.8 |
| [OpenAI Gym / Gymnasium](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/openai-gym-gymnasium.md) | Dataset | 7 | 84.4 |
| [D4RL](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/d4rl.md) | Dataset | 4 | 108.7 |
| [ImageNet](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/imagenet.md) | Dataset | 3 | 1.9 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). DeepMind Control Suite. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/deepmind-control-suite

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {DeepMind Control Suite},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/deepmind-control-suite}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).