Just know that my reviewers will be thoroughly reviewed for their strengths and weaknesses. Score and confidence included.

Econ lovers i have something for you

New paper alert: Continual Harness: Online Adaptation for Self-Improving Foundation Agents Paper (arXiv). arxiv.org/abs/2605.09998 Article (Substack). sethkarten.substack.com/p/gemini-pla... Project page (video demos). sethkarten.ai/continual-ha...

Announcing some work tomorrow. Will be cool and probably involving pokemon

im very glad to see a rebound this year in the total number of NSF GRFP awards to exceed the most this century. Founding the next generation of American scientists is important to keep growth of the sciences.

New meta seems to be arxiving a rough draft so that you can claim the terminology first and claim to be first

Everyone wants to own their own data but no one wants to own their own data center

1) what

i owe bluesky a post soon. everyone please hold on

🚨New preprint! LLM teams are being deployed at scale, yet we lack the tools to predict when they’ll succeed, fail, or how to design them. Distributed computing faced the exact same questions and figured out how to answer them. We show those insights apply directly to LLMs 🧵👇

I think I accidentally stumbled upon engagement baiting from first principles Ill stay on bluesky as long as the 10 accounts I like to see still post here

I think I might leave bluesky tbh

How do we close the gap between specialist RL and generalist LLM agents? We're benchmarking it in Pokémon. Join us at the PokeAgent Challenge competition workshop @ NeurIPS 2025. 📍 Dec 7, 8AM 🎮 Track 1: Competitive Pokémon (game-theoretic reasoning) 🗺️ Track 2: Speedrunning (long-horizon planning)

I’ll be in San Diego at NeurIPS Dec 3-7! DM or email if you want to chat about - building the foundation agents through games - PokeAgent Challenge & PokéChamp - LLM Economist & autonomous business agents

How do we close the gap between specialist RL and generalist LLM agents? We're benchmarking it in Pokémon. Join us at the PokeAgent Challenge competition workshop @ NeurIPS 2025. 📍 Dec 7, 8AM 🎮 Track 1: Competitive Pokémon (game-theoretic reasoning) 🗺️ Track 2: Speedrunning (long-horizon planning)

Every LLM eval uses Bradley-Terry Elo rankings. Almost none report uncertainty. Should we trust them? Maybe there is something better... 👇 (1/5)

Pokemon is truly the pareto frontier of agent research - The RPG requires an autonomous embodied agentic agent with perception, planning, memory, and control - VGC and Gen 9 OU penalize erroneous actions with fast-paced opponent-modeling in short games (1/3)

Trying to get a post ready but bluesky won’t let me post on desktop!!! If you want users here you need a user experience!!!

You probably aren’t reading enough papers. You probably didn’t cite the 10 closest papers to your work Thus, LLMs probably have a better understanding of where your paper sits in the literature ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The most interesting papers arent being published at the “prestigious” venues anymore. Where are you publishing and what do you work on?

🚨 Hackathon Weekend! 🚨 Jumpstart your PokéAgent Challenge submission ahead of NeurIPS! 📅 Sept 13–14 ✅ Leaderboards reset Sat 10AM EDT 🎙️ Lightning talks in LLMs, RL, and Pokemon 💬 Live Office hours 🏆 $2k in prizes

The NeurIPS 2025 PokéAgent Challenge is offering compute credits, courtesy of our sponsor Google DeepMind, to help you train bigger models & run more experiments. 📌 To apply: 1️⃣ Make a submission to Track 1 or 2 at pokeagent.github.io 2️⃣ Fill out the compute credit form on the site

Mad about data centers? Call your reps to build more nuclear

Hey #academics Why are neurips workshop deadlines due a month before main track acceptances? Seems counterintuitive to have the two tracks compete with each other #machinelearning

The NeurIPS 2025 PokéAgent Challenge is offering compute credits, courtesy of our sponsor Google DeepMind, to help you train bigger models & run more experiments. 📌 To apply: 1️⃣ Make a submission to Track 1 or 2 at pokeagent.github.io 2️⃣ Fill out the compute credit form on the site

If your final product doesnt reason in-context, how is it supposed to meta-learn and address distribution shifts and environment changes?

Papers are dead. Maybe it is time to start the youtube channel…

Viral paper out today about predicting brain stimulus from video inputs. as always dont overfit on first order responses. If you oversaturate stimulus, people will stop using the product(people uninstalling IG because it is too addicting) The attention economy must be modeled as a multi-agent system

🚀 New preprint! 🤔 Can one agent “nudge” a synthetic civilization of Census‑grounded agents toward higher social welfare—all by optimizing utilities in‑context? Meet the LLM Economist ↓

🚀 New preprint! 🤔 Can one agent “nudge” a synthetic civilization of Census‑grounded agents toward higher social welfare—all by optimizing utilities in‑context? Meet the LLM Economist ↓

🚀 Launch day! The NeurIPS 2025 PokéAgent Challenge is live. @neuripsconf.bsky.social Two tracks: ① Showdown Battling – imperfect-info, turn-based strategy ② Pokemon Emerald Speedrunning – long horizon RPG planning 5 M labeled replays • starter kit • baselines. Bring your LLM, RL, or hybrid agent!

🚀 5 days until my ICML spotlight poster! Key insights we’ll unpack: • Base LLM + test-time planning • Game-theoretic scaffolding • Context-engineered opponent prediction • Comparative LLM-as-judge (relative > absolute) Catch me Thu Jul 17, 4:30-7 PM PT👇

Heading to #ICML2025 next week! If you’re into all things API (Artificial Pokémon Intelligence) from our PokéChamp spotlight to the upcoming NeurIPS PokeAgent Challenge, LLM-agent scaffolding & reasoning, or mechanism-design nudging, let’s connect. DMs open!

Also the Pokemon Agent challenge by @sethkarten.ai @stephmilani.bsky.social and others! pokeagent.github.io

Social media takeoff is hard. Bluesky still lacks the capability to compete with twitter

Excited to announce that I will be spending the summer at @Waymo on the simulation realism team! I’ll be working on learning to generate simulated worlds. 🚙🚙🚙 Send me a message if youre in the bay area and want to chat!

Excited to share that the PokeAgent challenge was accepted as a NeurIPS competition! This should serve as an excellent benchmark for competitive games AND ‘speedrunning’ the RPG. I hope to see both the RL and LLM agent communities working together here to eval agents in Pokemon More info soon👀

Scaffolding is a really bad term. It is amazing how we have gone so end-to-end that we cant imagine when the model was just one component in an architecture

Researchers need to stop working on low-hanging fruit. Leave that for the engineers. Your job is difficult answering questions that people will push back on

Wow, this is officially an ICML spotlight! See you in Vancouver :)

using bluesky doesnt mean one has to be anti-AI 👍👍

Ive been working a lot on mechanism design with LLMs recently so I am deeply interested in seeing this done correctly. My take on this is that being able to elicit change isnt enough for this type of work. It also matters what the end goal is.

What happens to TRI though? I thought they had an AV division. Also Toyotas arent EVs so I am confused how the driving tech stack would work. I think Waymo is just diversifying their risk into personal vehicles

Insane new study from zurich studies the influence of the LLMs for persuasion on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit. Let's just say people are outraged... Is the study justified since bots are already rampant on reddit? Or does this cross ethical lines?

Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes

IJCAI workshops look so good this year. I really feel IJCAI/AAAI has some pretty amazing and overlooked work in the ICLR/ICML/NeurIPS era. Maybe we need a AAAI/RLC/NeurIPS era

The fact that there are two EV tiny trucks company launches this week is pretty cool to us kei truck fans

Incredibly bullish on openai