Kate Larson

📌 Mark Your Calendar: Live Game Arena Event This Monday!

We are releasing two new games, Poker and Werewolf, along with an updated Chess leaderboard next Monday, February 2, running daily from 9:30 AM PT to 11:30 AM PT through February 4

Hello all! 👋

I’m delighted to share a 🚨 new preprint 🚨:

“Active Evaluation of General Agents: Problem Definition and Comparison of Baseline Algorithms”.

A paper thread! 🤩📄🧵 1/N

If you are a senior researcher (i.e., associate prof level or later), and you're interested in moving to the University of Waterloo (best CS program in Canada) for the Canada Impact+ Research Chair (biggest chair position in Canada, $$$$$), email me. Discretion guaranteed.

Unlike board games, real-world strategic interactions are messy. Traditional game theory thus needs a boost for the age of agentic AI. Our #AAMAS2026 workshop "Strategic Engineering"(sites.google.com/view/se-aama...) in Cyprus aims to bridge the gap. Come join us to unlock truly strategic AI!

The University of Waterloo's campus as seen from the Graduate House.

The Cheriton School of Computer Science is recruiting!

We invite applications for multiple positions in data management and data systems, as well as in other areas of CS — ML, robotics, computer vision, bioinformatics, and computer systems and architecture.

cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/open-p...

In addition to the research engineer position, we also have a research scientist position!

job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

We have got exciting (and unconventional) stuff cooking and we are hiring for a strong research engineer on the GDM Game Theory team in London.

Consider apply if you are interested in the intersection of game theory, multiagent systems and LLMs!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

That's a wrap for day #4 @aamasconf.bsky.social . I did not present anything today but I am honored that we received the best paper award!

Thanks to everyone who made it happen! 👇 1/2

Working at the intersection of social choice and learning algorithms?

Check out the 2nd Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms (SCaLA) at @ijcai.bsky.social this summer.

Submission deadline: May 9th.

I attended last year at AAMAS and loved it! 👍

sites.google.com/corp/view/sc...

Looking for a principled evaluation method for ranking of *general* agents or models, i.e. that get evaluated across a myriad of different tasks?

I’m delighted to tell you about our new paper, Soft Condorcet Optimization (SCO) for Ranking of General Agents, to be presented at AAMAS 2025! 🧵 1/N

The image is a screen capture of a page from the latest issue of BBC Science Focus magazine, an article in which Sir David Spiegelhalter names the solution to the einstein problem — solved with help from our own Craig Kaplan (pictured in front of a wall of einsteins in our Computer Graphics Lab) — as one of the top breakthroughs.

The latest BBC Science Focus magazine highlights the biggest science and math breakthroughs of the past 25 years. Sir David Spiegelhalter named the solution to the einstein problem — solved with help from our own Craig Kaplan — as one of the top breakthroughs.

Congrats, Craig and colleagues!

ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award - ACM SIGAI 2025 Award Call Nominations are solicited for the 2025 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to…

Call for ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2025

The award is made for research excellence in autonomous agents, to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence

Nominations Deadline: 15th Jan 2025
Details: https://buff.ly/4ir8hJR
#SIGAIAward

Just a reminder that the AAMAS Doctoral Consortium deadline is next Friday!

Please consider submitting to this great venue or telling your students about it.

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Exciting work by my Google DeepMind colleagues!
deepmind.google/research/pub...