Preprints

Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B. D’Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen1, Heni Ben Amor2, Alex Bewley2, Barney J. Reed2,†, Krista Reymann2, Leila Takayama2,§, Yuval Tassa2, Krzysztof Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore, Kenneth Oslund, Anish Shankar, Vikas Sindhwani, Vincent Vanhoucke, Grace Vesom, Peng Xu, and Pannag R. Sanketi
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ReaLJam: Real-Time, Synchronous Human-AI Music Jamming with Reinforcement Learning-Tuned Transformers
Alexander Scarlatos, Yusong Wu, Ian Simon, Adam Roberts, Tim Cooijmans, Natasha Jaques, Cassie Tarakajian, Anna Huang
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2025

Cross-environment Cooperation Enables Zero-shot Multi-agent Coordination
Kunal Jha, Wilka Carvalho, Yancheng Liang, Simon S. Du, Max Kleiman-Weiner*, Natasha Jaques*
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025 (Oral Paper-Top 1%) and CogSci 2025
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InvestESG: A multi-agent reinforcement learning benchmark for studying climate investment as a social dilemma
Xiaoxuan Hou, Jiayi Yuan, Joel Z. Leibo, Natasha Jaques
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
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2024

Infer Human’s Intentions Before Following Natural Language Instructions
Yanming Wan, Yue Wu, Yiping Wang, Jiayuan Mao*, Natasha Jaques*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025
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Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Satellite Assignment Problems
Josh Holder, Natasha Jaques, Mehran Mesbahi
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025
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Personalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference Learning
Sriyash Poddar, Yanming Wan, Hamish Ivison, Abhishek Gupta*, Natasha Jaques*
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024    (Spotlight-Top 2%)
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Learning to Cooperate with Humans Using Generative Agents
Yancheng Liang, Daphne Chen, Abhishek Gupta, Simon Du, Natasha Jaques
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024
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Impossibility theorems for feature attribution
Blair Bilodeau, Natasha Jaques, Pang-Wei Koh, Been Kim
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2024
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Adaptive Accompaniment with ReaLchords
Yusong Wu, Tim Cooijmans, Kyle Kastner, Adam Roberts, Ian Simon, Alexander Scarlatos, Chris Donahue, Cassie Tarakajian, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Aaron Courville, Pablo Samuel Castro, Natasha Jaques, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
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