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Michael Matthews

5 accepted papers

2026

Goal-Conditioned Agents that Learn Everything All at Once

ICML 2026poster

A goal-conditioned reinforcement learning agent acting in an environment will see a wealth of information throughout a trajectory, most of which is discarded when only considering the trajectory with respect to a single goal. All-goals learning, where each transition is used for learning off-policy …

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2026

Scalable Option Learning in High-Throughput Environments

ICML 2026spotlight

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to enable effective decision-making over long timescales. Existing approaches, while promising, have yet to realize the benefits of large-scale training. In this work, we identify and solve several key challenges in scaling online hierarchic…

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2025

Kinetix: Investigating the Training of General Agents through Open-Ended Physics-Based Control Tasks

ICLR 2025oral

While large models trained with self-supervised learning on offline datasets have shown remarkable capabilities in text and image domains, achieving the same generalisation for agents that act in sequential decision problems remains an open challenge. In this work, we take a step towards this goal b…

2024

Craftax: A Lightning-Fast Benchmark for Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2024spotlight

Benchmarks play a crucial role in the development and analysis of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. We identify that existing benchmarks used for research into open-ended learning fall into one of two categories. Either they are too slow for meaningful research to be performed without enormous…

2024

Refining Minimax Regret for Unsupervised Environment Design

ICML 2024poster

In unsupervised environment design, reinforcement learning agents are trained on environment configurations (levels) generated by an adversary that maximises some objective. Regret is a commonly used objective that theoretically results in a minimax regret (MMR) policy with desirable robustness guar…