arXiv:2508. 13213v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strategic decision-making requires balancing immediate opportunities against long-term objectives: a tension fundamental to competitive environments.
By Adamo Cerioli, Edward D. Lee, Vito D. P. Servedio
arXiv:2607. 00190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in reinforcement learning have produced superhuman agents across a wide range of competitive games.
By Andrzej Bia{\l}ecki, Adam Mastalerz, Han Zhou
arXiv:2608. 09128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent social settings where they must cooperate, negotiate, and adapt to other agents.
By Keyu He, Xuhui Zhou, Maarten Sap
arXiv:2608. 07490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly evaluated through games, but most benchmarks emphasize final outcomes rather than how players learn from repeated interaction.
By Yingying Guo, Zhuoxuan Ju, Ruibo Ming, Ruicheng Feng, Jinjin Gu
arXiv:2606. 04473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present ChessMimic, a system of three small encoder-only transformers - for move, thinking-time, and outcome prediction - conditioned on the position, recent move history, player rating, and clock state.
By Thomas Johnson
arXiv:2606. 25176v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chess engines have evolved from search-based systems optimized solely for strength to neural policies capable of modeling human decisions across much of the rating spectrum.
By Jason Carlson