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Athul Paul Jacob

7 accepted papers

2025

Human-Aligned Chess With a Bit of Search

ICLR 2025poster

Chess has long been a testbed for AI's quest to match human intelligence, and in recent years, chess AI systems have surpassed the strongest humans at the game. However, these systems are *not human-aligned*; they are unable to match the skill levels of all human partners or model human-like behavio…

2024

The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search

ICLR 2024spotlight

When applied to question answering and other text generation tasks, language models (LMs) may be queried generatively (by sampling answers from their output distribution) or discriminatively (by using them to score or rank a set of candidate answers). These procedures sometimes yield very different…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2023

Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning

ICLR 2023top-5%

No-press Diplomacy is a complex strategy game involving both cooperation and competition that has served as a benchmark for multi-agent AI research. While self-play reinforcement learning has resulted in numerous successes in purely adversarial games like chess, Go, and poker, self-play alone is ins…

Cited by 55SourcePDFScholar
2022

Modeling Strong and Human-Like Gameplay with KL-Regularized Search

ICML 2022spotlight

We consider the task of accurately modeling strong human policies in multi-agent decision-making problems, given examples of human behavior. Imitation learning is effective at predicting human actions but may not match the strength of expert humans (e.g., by sometimes committing blunders), while sel…