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Michael Dennis

5 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Fixed Tasks: Unsupervised Environment Design for Task-Level Pairs

AAAI 2026technical

Training general agents to follow complex instructions (tasks) in intricate environments (levels) remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning. Random sampling of task-level pairs often produces unsolvable combinations, highlighting the need to co-design tasks and levels. While unsupervised en

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2022

Evolving Curricula with Regret-Based Environment Design

ICML 2022spotlight

Training generally-capable agents with reinforcement learning (RL) remains a significant challenge. A promising avenue for improving the robustness of RL agents is through the use of curricula. One such class of methods frames environment design as a game between a student and a teacher, using regre…

2021

A New Formalism, Method and Open Issues for Zero-Shot Coordination

ICML 2021spotlight

In many coordination problems, independently reasoning humans are able to discover mutually compatible policies. In contrast, independently trained self-play policies are often mutually incompatible. Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) has recently been proposed as a new frontier in multi-agent reinforceme…

2020

Adversarial Policies: Attacking Deep Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2020poster

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) policies are known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations to their observations, similar to adversarial examples for classifiers. However, an attacker is not usually able to directly modify another agent's observations. This might lead one to wonder: is it pos…

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2020

Emergent Complexity and Zero-shot Transfer via Unsupervised Environment Design

NeurIPS 2020oral

A wide range of reinforcement learning (RL) problems --- including robustness, transfer learning, unsupervised RL, and emergent complexity --- require specifying a distribution of tasks or environments in which a policy will be trained. However, creating a useful distribution of environments is err…