Lukas Schäfer
lukaschaefer.bsky.social
Lukas Schäfer
@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
At the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop I'll be presenting our comprehensive study on the efficacy of different visual encoders for imitation learning in modern video games.

I'll be presenting the work as a short talk and poster at the ALA workshop on Monday!
May 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
At the main conference, I'll be presenting our work on using ensembles of value functions for multi-agent exploration!

I'll be presenting the oral at the Multi-agent Learning 1 session on Wednesday (2:00 - 3:45pm), and the poster after 3:45pm!

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2302.03439
May 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
📚🧵4/7 MARL has seen exponential growth over the past decade with more and more papers coming out every year but the field has been lacking a textbook that taught newcomers the foundations from the ground up. Papers are great but they are difficult to parse for newcomers ...
December 9, 2024 at 6:34 PM
📚🧵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 🧵👇
December 9, 2024 at 6:34 PM