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Sam Devlin

Principal Researcher

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Awards | AAMAS 2023

Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity" by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson

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| Tim Pearce, Tabish Rashid, Anssi Kanervisto, Dave Bignell, Mingfei Sun, Raluca Stevenson, Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Shanzheng Tan, Ida Momennejad, Katja Hofmann, and Sam Devlin

Diffusion models have been used to generate photorealistic images and short videos, compose music, and synthesize speech. In a new paper, Microsoft Researchers explore how they can be used to imitate human behavior in interactive environments.

In the news | VentureBeat

Microsoft believes in the power of gaming as a platform for AI, pointing to Project Paidia. “With projects like this, we’re showing how AI is shifting from competitive applications to being used to empower players to achieve more,” Sam Devlin…

Microsoft Research Blog

| Batu Aytemiz, Mikhail Jacob, Sam Devlin, and Katja Hofmann

In video games, nonplayer characters, bots, and other game agents help bring a digital world and its story to life. They can help make the mission of saving humanity feel urgent, transform every turn of a corner into a gamer’s…

Awards | AIIDE 2020

Best Paper Award at the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2020) for “It’s Unwieldy and It Takes a Lot of Time.” Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Agents in Commercial Games by Jacob, Devlin and…

Microsoft Research Blog

| Kamil Ciosek, Sam Devlin, and Katja Hofmann

Reinforcement learning (RL) provides exciting opportunities for game development, as highlighted in our recently announced Project Paidia (opens in new tab)—a research collaboration between our Game Intelligence (opens in new tab) group at Microsoft Research Cambridge and game developer Ninja…