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Carter Wendelken

3 accepted papers

2026

Code World Models for General Game Playing

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) reasoning abilities are increasingly being applied to classical board and card games, but the dominant approach---involving prompting for direct move generation---has significant drawbacks. It relies on the model's implicit fragile pattern-matching capabilities, leading…

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2025

Improving Transformer World Models for Data-Efficient RL

ICML 2025poster

We present an approach to model-based RL that achieves a new state of the art performance on the challenging Craftax-classic benchmark, an open-world 2D survival game that requires agents to exhibit a wide range of general abilities---such as strong generalization, deep exploration, and long-term re…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

DMC-VB: A Benchmark for Representation Learning for Control with Visual Distractors

NeurIPS 2024poster

Learning from previously collected data via behavioral cloning or offline reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful recipe for scaling generalist agents by avoiding the need for expensive online learning. Despite strong generalization in some respects, agents are often remarkably brittle to minor vi…