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Niklas Lauffer

5 accepted papers

2026

Imitation Learning for Multi-turn LM Agents via On-policy Expert Corrections

ICML 2026poster

A popular paradigm for training LM agents relies on imitation learning, fine-tuning on expert trajectories. However, we show that the off-policy nature of imitation learning for multi-turn LM agents suffers from the fundamental limitation known as covariate shift: as the student policy's behavior di…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?

ICML 2026poster

We present SWE-Bench Pro, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate software engineering capabilities through complex, realistic programming challenges. This benchmark extends beyond traditional algorithmic problems to encompass the full spectrum of professional software development tasks. The …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Robust and Diverse Multi-Agent Learning via Rational Policy Gradient

NeurIPS 2025poster

Adversarial optimization algorithms that explicitly search for flaws in agents' policies have been successfully applied to finding robust and diverse policies in the context of multi-agent learning. However, the success of adversarial optimization has been largely limited to zero-sum settings becaus…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

Compositional Automata Embeddings for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning is a powerful way to control an AI agent's behavior at runtime. That said, popular goal representations, e.g., target states or natural language, are either limited to Markovian tasks or rely on ambiguous task semantics. We propose representing temporal goals…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Who Needs to Know? Minimal Knowledge for Optimal Coordination

ICML 2023poster

To optimally coordinate with others in cooperative games, it is often crucial to have information about one’s collaborators: successful driving requires understanding which side of the road to drive on. However, not every feature of collaborators is strategically relevant: the fine-grained accelerat…