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  1. From Probabilities to Decisions: Search and Multi-Teacher Distillation with Jev

    Oct 6, 2026Mohamad Yazan Sadoun, Sarah Sharif, Yaser Mike BanadLanguage Model DistillationMulti-Teacher Knowledge Distillation

    INQUIRE Lab, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

  2. Recursive Game Creator: An Agentic Product-Level Experience-Oriented Game Harness

    Oct 6, 2026Jiajun Chen, Haoyu Wu, Mingda Jia +1Game-Playing Agents

    HKU MMLab · The University of Hong Kong · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  3. Towards the Automatic Synthesis of Interpretable Chess Tactics

    Oct 6, 2026Abhijeet Krishnan, Chris MartensGame-Playing AgentsChess

    North Carolina State University Venture IV, 1730 Varsity Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606

  4. Learning Explainable Representations of Complex Game-playing Strategies

    Oct 6, 2026Abhijeet Krishnan, Colin M. Potts, Arnav Jhala +3Game-Playing AgentsProgram Synthesis

    Venture IV 420, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606 USA · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India · Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune 411013, Maharashtra, India +1

  5. Temporal-Difference Learning for Dragonchess

    Oct 1, 2026Jim O'Connor, Annika Hoag, Sarah Goyette +1Game-Playing AgentsTemporal-Difference Learning

    Connecticut College, New London CT 06320, USA

  6. STRATA: Self-Learning Through Role-Aligned Tiered Agents for Real-Time Strategy Games

    Sep 30, 2026Xinhe Tian, Xiaoyue Zhang, Ziyou Zhang +4Multi-Agent CoordinationGame-Playing Agents

    School of Instrumentation Science and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Tsinghua University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +2

  7. Regularized policy gradient with learned mixtures of Gaussians for games with continuous actions

    Sep 29, 2026Ondřej Kubíček, Viliam Lisý, Tuomas SandholmGame-Playing AgentsSelf-Play RL

    Czech Technical University in Prague · Carnegie Mellon University · Artificial Intelligence Center

  8. SAGE: Structured Strategic Reasoning for Efficient LLM Game Playing

    Sep 28, 2026Zhiwei Chen, Tianchun Wang, Zhongtao Rao +3Game-Playing AgentsImperfect-Information Games

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Johns Hopkins University · Microsoft +2

  9. MA-JEPA: Joint-Embedding World Models for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Brandon Gary Kaplowitz, Osaze James Obahor, Christian Schroeder de WittGame-Playing AgentsWorld Model Learning

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

  10. PUBG Ally: A Conversational Embodied Agent as an AI Teammate

    Sep 24, 2026Beomsoo Kim, Byeongju Kim, Dohyun Kim +21Game-Playing AgentsAI Agent Evaluation

  11. GameHorizon Suite: Multi-Horizon Data and Evaluation in Gameplay

    Sep 21, 2026Yiran Wang, Xingyilang Yin, Junfu Pu +12Game-Playing AgentsLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    ARC Lab, Tencent · GVC Lab, Great Bay University · University of Macau +3

  12. Mitigating Retaliatory Algorithmic Collusion in Repeated Games

    Sep 17, 2026Karthik Sivachandran, Rohan PalejaGame-Playing AgentsRepeated Games

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  13. A Qualitative Model for Reasoning about Path and Support

    Sep 17, 2026Abhishek Jaiswal, Zoe FalomirGame-Playing AgentsSpatial Reasoning

    Umeå University, Sweden

  14. Symmetric solution of the Bellman optimality equation for repeated harmony game

    Sep 14, 2026Hisato KomatsuGame-Playing AgentsGame Theory

    Department of Physics, Kindai University, 577-8502, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, Japan · Data Science and AI Innovation Research Promotion Center, Shiga University, 522-8522, Hikone, Shiga, Japan

  15. Niching Agents in The Core

    Sep 14, 2026Gary B. Parker, Jim O'Connor, John AsaroGame-Playing AgentsQuality-Diversity Optimization

    Connecticut College, New London CT 06320-4125, USA

  16. The Convention Gap: Towards Measuring Implicit Communication in Cooperative AI Evaluation

    Sep 10, 2026Makoto Fukushima, Hua-Dong Xiong, Ehsan Moradi PariGame-Playing AgentsAI Agent Evaluation

    Honda Research Institute Japan · Honda Research Institute USA

  17. The Surprising Effectiveness of Approximate Value Iteration in Self-Play

    Sep 8, 2026Raphael Boige, Amine Boumaza, Bruno ScherrerGame-Playing AgentsSelf-Play RL

    Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, F-54000 Nancy, France

  18. PlayTrain: An Efficient Reinforcement Learning Framework for LLM-Generated Adaptable JavaScript Games

    Sep 8, 2026Ryan Truong, Lance Ying, Samuel J. Gershman +1Reinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA · MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA · Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA +1

  19. MARBO: Relational Belief Grounding for LLM Agents in Social Deduction Games

    Sep 6, 2026Yechan Hwang, Sangjun Bae, Jeongmo Kim +2Game-Playing AgentsSocial Deduction Games

    Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea.

  20. Local Updates, Global Learning (LUGL): Playing Games with non-incremental Learners

    Sep 3, 2026David Milec, Spyridon Samothrakis, Michael Fairbank +1Gradient-Boosted Decision TreesGame-Playing Agents

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic · School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom · Maastricht University, the Netherlands

  21. CivBench: A Long-Horizon Benchmark for Tool-Mediated Agents in Civilization VI

    Sep 2, 2026Austin Tudor David Andrews, Liam Wilkinson, Jamie Heagerty +3LLM Agent EvaluationLLM Tool Use

    University of Oxford · Tony Blair Institute for Global Change · Google DeepMind +1

  22. Game-Agnostic Value Functions through Automatic JSON Feature Extraction

    Aug 30, 2026Dien Nguyen, Diego Perez-LiebanaGame-Playing AgentsValue Function Estimation

    Queen Mary University of London - Game AI Group

  23. PokaiTrainer: Scaling Equilibrium Search to Competitive Pokémon VGC

    Aug 29, 2026Max YuGame-Playing AgentsSelf-Play RL

    Independent Researcher

  24. DSLE: A Learning Environment for Dark Souls Boss Encounters

    Aug 10, 2026Derin Gezgin, Jim O'Connor, Tanner Goodwin +1RL BenchmarksGame-Playing Agents

    Autonomous Agent Learning Lab Connecticut College New London, Connecticut, USA

  25. ICM Out! Better Tournament Strategy from Computed Continuations, vs. Solvers and LLMs

    Aug 10, 2026Boning Li, Longbo HuangGame-Playing AgentsImperfect-Information Games

    IIIS, Tsinghua University.

  26. Social Gym and SPaRTan: Benchmarking and Improving LLM Social Reasoning via Multi-Agent Game Tournaments

    Aug 10, 2026Keyu He, Xuhui Zhou, Maarten SapGame-Playing AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  27. Solver-Guided Reasoning for Mixed-Equilibrium Strategies

    Aug 7, 2026Han Wang, Philippe Beardsell, Boning Li +4Nash EquilibriumGame-Playing Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · GTO Wizard · Tsinghua University +2

  28. Towards Improving Sequential Decision-Making in LLM Agents via Experience Memory

    Aug 4, 2026Jakub Rada, Viliam LisýGame-Playing AgentsLLM Agents

    AI Center, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague · AI Center, Department of Computer Science, FEE, Czech Technical University in Prague

  29. Chess on Ice: Curling Tactical Decision-Making via Backward Induction and Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Patrick Oberlin, Matteo Cederle, Aren Karapetyan +3Game-Playing Agents

    Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy · Belimo Automation AG, Hinwil, Switzerland

  30. DungeonBench: A Benchmark for Rules-Rich Tactical Reasoning in Dungeons & Dragons Combat

    Jul 31, 2026Ismayil Ismayilov, Atakan Kara, Kaan OktayLogical ReasoningGame-Playing Agents

    fal

  31. MirrorCraft: Paired Evaluation under Hidden Rule Changes in Minecraft

    Jul 31, 2026Jianxin Gao, Beini Hu, Runze Li +6Game-Playing AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    China Agricultural University, Beijing, China · Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China · Jilin University, Changchun, China +2

  32. Tycho: Active Abstraction with Programmatic World Models for ARC-AGI-3

    Jul 30, 2026Jens Lehmann, Andrei Aioanei, Sahar VahdatiGame-Playing AgentsAI Coding Agents

    Dresden University of Technology · Amazon · TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology +1

  33. Belief-Guided Decision Making with Uncertainty Gating in the Game of Go

    Jul 29, 2026Mehrad Yaghoubi, Azam Bastanfard, Abbas Jalilvand +1Game-Playing AgentsDecision-Making under Uncertainty

    Department of Computer Engineering, Ka.C, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

  34. CaM-Wolf: Causal-Aware Multimodal Agents for Social Deduction Games

    Jul 29, 2026Zheng Zhang, Nanjie Yao, Jiarui He +3Game-Playing AgentsSocial Deduction Games

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Nanyang Technological University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  35. CAST: Game Solvers as Turn-Level Teachers for LLM Agents

    Jul 28, 2026Yu Wang, Yi-Kai Zhang, Wentao Shi +8Reinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · 4Meituan, China · 2Nanjing University +1

  36. Cortex: Compact Behavior Cloning for Quake with Frozen Visual Features

    Jul 22, 2026Dzmitry MalyshauGame-Playing AgentsVisuomotor Policy Learning

  37. Spatial Reasoning in LLM Game Agents: Impact of Causal Context and Multi-Step Planning

    Jul 22, 2026Mohit Jiwatode, Ronja Fuchs, Robin Schmöcker +2Game-Playing AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Institute for Information Processing · SDU Metaverse Lab

  38. Concept-Guided Spatial Regularization for World Models in Atari Pong

    Jul 16, 2026Yukuan Lu, Zaishuo Xia, Weyl Lu +1Game-Playing AgentsWorld Model Learning

    UC Davis

  39. Equilibrium stability as a driver of cooperation among Q-learners

    Jul 15, 2026Janusz M. Meylahn, Maximilian SchäferGame-Playing AgentsRepeated Games

    University of Twente, Department of Applied Mathematics, Drienerloolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands. · Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, Department of Data Analytics, Economics, and Finance. 9 Rue Charles Fourier, 91000 Evry, France.

  40. Dynamic Resource Allocation for Ensemble Determinization MCTS

    Jul 14, 2026Jakub Kowalski, Adam Ciężkowski, Artur Krzyżyński +1Game-Playing AgentsImperfect-Information Games

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wrocław · Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University

  41. WanToFight: Real-Time Generative Game Engine for Multi-Player Combat Interaction

    Jul 14, 2026Li Hu, Guangyuan Wang, Peng Zhang +1Action-Conditioned Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

    Tongyi Lab, Alibaba

  42. AlphaZero in Sparsely Rewarded Games: Limits and Auxiliary Supervision

    Jul 9, 2026Brent Kong, Tejas Ram, Tony Yue YuGame-Playing AgentsSelf-Play RL

    Department of Mathematics · California Institute of Technology · Department of Computer Science

  43. Open-ended Multi-agent Autocurricula via Visual Inspection of Policies with Multi-modal LLMs

    Jul 9, 2026Lorenzo Pantè, Andrea Fanti, Roberto CapobiancoGame-Playing AgentsCurriculum RL

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy · Sony AI, Zurich, Switzerland

  44. Reward-Adaptive Iterative Discovery: A Case Study on Automated Game Testing for NHL26

    Jul 8, 2026Florian Fuchs, Jessy Gosselin-Grant, Boris Skuin +5Automated Software TestingReinforcement Learning

    Electronic Arts (EA)

  45. A Gold-Standard Study of What Makes a Lightweight Game-Playing Agent Strong

    Jul 7, 2026Nima Kelidari, Mohammadsaeed Haghi, Mahdi SalmaniReinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    University of Southern California

  46. FootsiesGym: A Fighting Game Benchmark for Two-Player Zero-Sum Imperfect-Information Games

    Jul 7, 2026Chase McDonald, Nathan Tsang, Wesley N. KerrRL BenchmarksGame-Playing Agents

    Como Research · Riot Games

  47. When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games

    Jul 6, 2026Jerick Shi, Terry Jingcheng Zhang, Bernhard Schölkopf +2Multi-Agent LLM SystemsGame-Playing Agents

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA · Jinesis AI Lab, Vector Institute and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada · EuroSafeAI +1

  48. Congestion-Based Slot Pricing in a Railway Auction Game

    Jul 2, 2026Bill Roungas, Sebastiaan MeijerMechanism DesignGame-Playing Agents

    Panteion University, Athens, Greece · Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece · KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  49. SAT-RTS: A systematic framework for tactical knowledge extraction and visualization-based analysis in real-time strategy games

    Jun 29, 2026Chunhui Bai, Changhe Li, Yuqiang Li +2Game-Playing AgentsInterpretability in RL

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China · Hubei Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems, Wuhan 430074, China · Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Technology for Geo-Exploration, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430074, China +2

  50. SAGA: Scene-Aware, Goal-Evolving Agents for Long-Horizon Strategy Game Planning

    Jun 29, 2026Tianyu Jin, Shuo Chen, Yida Wang +6Multi-Agent LLM SystemsGame-Playing Agents

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)

  51. GPTNT: Benchmarking Real-Time Collaboration Between Multimodal Agents on Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes

    Jun 26, 2026Amit Parekh, Sabrina McCallum, Kareem Al-Hasan +3Game-Playing AgentsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Heriot-Watt University · University of Edinburgh

  52. Triadic Werewolf: A Jester Role for Multi-Hop Theory of Mind in LLMs

    Jun 26, 2026Avni MittalGame-Playing AgentsSocial Deduction Games

  53. Matilda: Engine-Agnostic Search with Human Policy Guidance

    Jun 23, 2026Jason CarlsonGame-Playing AgentsTransformer

  54. The Latent Bridge: A Continuous Slow-Fast Channel for Real-Time Game Agents

    Jun 23, 2026Bojie Li, Noah ShiGame-Playing AgentsVLM Reasoning

    Pine AI · University of Washington

  55. Superhuman AI for Generals.io Using Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 22, 2026Matej Straka, Viliam Lisý, Martin SchmidGame-Playing AgentsSelf-Play RL

    Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic · Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic · Charles University +1

  56. IRumAI: Reinforcement Learning for Indian Rummy

    Jun 20, 2026Vignesh MohanReinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    EURECOM Sophia Antipolis, France

  57. Augmenting Game AI with Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 18, 2026Alessandro Sestini, Joakim Bergdahl, Amir Baghi +3Reinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    Electronic Arts (EA), Stockholm, Sweden

  58. Hierarchical Control in Multi-Agent Games: LLM-based Planning and RL Execution

    Jun 18, 2026Jannik Hösch, Alessandro Sestini, Florian Fuchs +6Sequential MARLMulti-Agent Coordination

    1Electronic Arts (EA) · 2KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  59. RTSGameBench: An RTS Benchmark for Strategic Reasoning by Vision-Language Models

    Jun 17, 2026San Kim, Daechul Ahn, Reokyoung Kim +3Multi-Agent CoordinationGame-Playing Agents

    Seoul National University

  60. WallZero: Mastering the Game of WallGo with Strategic Analysis

    Jun 16, 2026Hsing-Yu Chen, Jérôme Arjonilla, I-Chen Wu +1Game-Playing Agents

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan · Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan