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lukaschaefer.bsky.social
www.lukaschaefer.com Researcher @msftresearch.bsky.social; working on autonomous agents in video games; PhD Univ of Edinburgh ; Ex Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Dematic; Young researcher HLF 2022
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Today in Nature: our research on world and human action models (WHAM) - generative ai models of video games, aimed towards supporting game creatives in gameplay ideation : nature.com/articles/s41... - huge congrats to everyone who made this happen, I couldn't be more proud 🥳

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Awesome to see this released and out in the world now. Huge congrats to the entire team! It was super cool to see the vision come to life as an intern and everything coming together now after re-joining the team 👏

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

An exciting new internship opportunity in my team: Generative AI for Human Creativity - in the context of a multi-disciplinary internship with a fantastic set of mentors 🤩

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

I had an awesome experience at the AAMAS doctoral consortium (despite virtual format) and would highly recommend it to any PhD student. @sharky6000.bsky.social has been an amazing mentor who gave me lots of motivation and advice for my journey forward! Deadline in 7 days so apply soon 👇

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The first textbook on multi-agent reinforcement learning is out - a landmark for the field, the first textbook covering game-theoretic foundations with state-of-the-art deep learning! Congrats to its authors Stefano Albrecht , LukasSchaefer and Filippos Christianos More details: www.marl-book.com

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

📚📢Christmas came early 🎅 Our new textbook on multi-agent reinforcement learning with @mitpress.bsky.social is out NOW! The book is available from MIT Press (mitpress.mit.edu/978026204937...) or your bookstore nearby. Why you should be interested, what you get, and more all in a 🧵👇

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

My team at Waymo is hiring two London-based interns for Summer 2025. Please consider applying! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su... careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

📚🧵1/7 It is finally here!! Only one more week until the print release of our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” with @mitpress.bsky.social! What you get, why you should be interested and more, all below in a short 🧵👇

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Excellent points being made and I’m sure everyone can resonate with this experience. Let’s try to be the reviewer we’d like to have and improve the work we review rather than being antagonistic and trying to find reasons to reject.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/

submitted 93 days ago • 50 comments

Excited to start my #bsky journey by posting about opportunities in my team 🤩 We're the aka.ms/game-intelli... team at Microsoft Research, looking for awesome Research Interns to work with us on generative AI for applications in video games and beyond. Is that you? Apply here: aka.ms/msr-internsh...

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Want to learn / teach RL? 
 Check out new book draft: Reinforcement Learning - Foundations
sites.google.com/view/rlfound... W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments