Mikayel Samvelyan

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I’m hiring a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind. This research role centers on topics of open-ended self-improvement and discovery with LLM agents.

📍 Location: London
🗓️ Duration: 6 months, 100%
🚀 Start date: June or July 2026

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Hello all! 👋 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨

Code World Models for General Game-Playing. ♟️🎲 ♣️♥️♠️♦️

I am pleased to announce our new paper, which provides an extremely sample-efficient way to create an agent that can perform well in multi-agent, partially-observed, symbolic environments!

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Can AI agents adapt zero-shot, to complex multi-step language instructions in open-ended environments?

We present MaestroMotif, a method for skill design that produces highly capable and steerable hierarchical agents.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08542
Code: github.com/mklissa/maestromotif

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

Do you know what rating you’ll give after reading the intro? Are your confidence scores 4 or higher? Do you not respond in rebuttal phases? Are you worried how it will look if your rating is the only 8 among 3’s? This thread is for you.

Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.

Your LLM shall not pass! 🧙‍♂️

... unless it's really good in reasoning and games!

Check out this new amazing benchmark BALROG 👾 from @dpaglieri.bsky.social and team 👇

Google DeepMind Starter Pack Join the conversation

For no particular reason, I really like these starter packs:

Google DeepMind: go.bsky.app/GZ4hZzu
Theoretical CS: go.bsky.app/6A6GRSi
ML Theory: go.bsky.app/21nFz12
Differential Privacy: go.bsky.app/A7ABG83

How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this:

Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢

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Wow, thanks so much and massive congratulations to you too, Dr Eimer. 😉

What a coincidence, PhD twins it is! Clearly the universe wanted double the celebration. We should celebrate every year on Nov 18. 🎉

Thanks Marc!

Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack.

go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD

Thank you, Steph!

Thanks Manfred!

I am happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday! 🎓

This journey has been nothing short of extraordinary, and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has been a part of it. 🪇

Lets get the multi-agent learning community started up here: go.bsky.app/9gsefkW