A year after our trip to AAMAS in New Zealand, @sharky6000.bsky.social came back for more!

I should have planned my year not to miss @aamasconf.bsky.social…

Big congrats and keep up amazing work! 🎉👏

LLMs Mastering Board Games: ZurichNLP Meetup - Feb 20th!

Excited to share insights from my student research at Google DeepMind at the upcoming ZurichNLP meetup! I'll present how we achieved high-level play in board games using LLMs with a search budget comparable to human chess grandmasters.

Join John's talk to get insights on our paper on mastering board games with language models!

After 15 years away from competitive chess, I forgot how much thrill and excitement the game gives! ♟️ I decided to attend a tournament with five grandmasters and numerous international, fide, and candidate masters.

@lichess.org broadcast: lichess.org/broadcast/29...

After a slight delay, it is now also out on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12119

I will remember @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2024 as a defining moment in my career. Grateful to mentors & colleagues at @ethzurich.bsky.social and @deepmind.google.web.brid.gy for making it possible. Meeting enthusiastic researchers and having insightful, constructive discussions was truly inspiring!

I was honored to present our demo on “Mastering Chess With Language Models” at the @GoogleDeepMind booth at @NeurIPSConf right before an inspiring talk by Jeff Dean

Thanks to everyone who dropped by and made it a memorable session! ♟️

I couldn’t ask for a better @neuripsconf.bsky.social
welcome! Spotted a lovely family playing chess and had the joy of facing a brilliant 6-year-old who just learned the game 3 days ago. Her enthusiasm was truly inspiring!

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹? ♟️ 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁!
👉 gemini.google.com/gem/chess-ch...

Share your victories (and brags) in the comments!

As a lifelong chess player, I was thrilled to curate the featured games section, where you can delve into mind-blowing matches! 🤯

Amazingly, the model can learn to perform internal search within a single LLM call, allowing for smooth scaling of playing strength with the number of tokens! 🤯

An efficient external MCTS reaches grandmaster-level strength with a search budget comparable to that of human players! 🔥

A single LLM can learn to play multiple board games—including Chess, Chess960, Hex, and Connect Four—at a master level! 💪

"𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵?”

I was fortunate to join the board games team at Google as a student researcher, where we proved that the answer is a resounding YES! ♟️🤯

deepmind.google/research/pub...

The project I was quite honored to work on! ♟️

As a chess enthusiast, I was especially thrilled that an LLM equipped with an efficient MCTS reaches grandmaster-level strength with a search budget comparable to human players! 🤯

deepmind.google/research/pub...