Seth Karten

@sethkarten.ai

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Autonomous Agents | Research @ Prime Intellect | PhD @ Princeton | Prev: CMU, Waymo | NSF GRFP Fellow https://sethkarten.ai/

Flyer for The PokeAgent Challenge at NeurIPS 2025. Sunday, Dec 7, 8–10:45 AM PST, Mezzanine Room 15AB, San Diego Convention Center. Two tracks: Track 1 (Battling) features competitive Pokémon battle bots; Track 2 (Speedrunning) features long-horizon RPG gameplay. Tagline: "How do we close the gap between specialist RL models and generalist LLM agents?" Speakers: Seth Karten (Princeton), Aaron Traylor, Minmin Chen (Google DeepMind), Jake Grigsby (UT Austin), Stephanie Milani (NYU/Johns Hopkins), Kiran Vodrahalli (Google DeepMind), Fei Fang (CMU), Yuke Zhu (UT Austin), Chi Jin (Princeton). Sponsored by Google DeepMind.
Leaderboard of Pokemon Gen 1 OU Top 100 NeurIPS competition for the PokeAgent Challenge. The leaderboard shows username, elo, glicko-1, glicko-1 deviation, wins, losses, and ties for the results of the head to head battles for each agent methodology. Highlighted are top user submissions. PAC-MM-* usernames are organizer hosted baselines.
Two pokeagents in the replay archives
PokéAgent Challenge @ NeurIPS 2025 Hackathon Weekend Schedule. Saturday, Sept 13th: 10 AM leaderboards reset; 12–1:30 PM livestream talks (overview, Aaron Traylor on Pokémon as an AI Problem, Seth Karten on Pokéchamp, Jake Grigsby on Metamon, plus more). Sunday, Sept 14th: 1–3:30 PM organizer office hours; 11:59 PM top teams earn up to $2k in GCP credits. Sponsored by Google DeepMind and AIJ.
Timeline plot: planner changes each tax year; welfare remains elevated across turnovers.
Bar chart comparing social welfare for U.S. baseline, LLM planner, Saez schedule; LLM nearly matches Saez.
Diagram of LLM Economist: left—grid of persona‑conditioned worker agents; center—planner LLM sends tax schedule; right—social‑welfare ‘hill‑climb’.
Banner reading “PokéAgent Challenge @ NeurIPS 2025” with two panels: Track 1 – Competitive Pokémon Battle Bots, Track 2 – Long-Horizon RPG Gameplay. Call-to-action: “Create video-game AI! Win prizes! Live now at pokeagent.github.io.”
NeurIPS 2025 competition track submission summary, scores, and recommendation to accept