iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mikayel Samvelyan

@samvelyan.com

Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind. Previously Meta (FAIR), Reddit, PhD UCL, MSc Oxford. samvelyan.com

Mikayel Samvelyan @samvelyan.com · 11/11/2025

I’m hiring a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind. This research role centers on topics of open-ended self-improvement and discovery with LLM agents. 📍 Location: London 🗓️ Duration: 6 months, 100% 🚀 Start date: June or July 2026 Apply now using the links below 👇

150

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hello all! 👋 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨 Code World Models for General Game-Playing. ♟️🎲 ♣️♥️♠️♦️ I am pleased to announce our new paper, which provides an extremely sample-efficient way to create an agent that can perform well in multi-agent, partially-observed, symbolic environments! 🧵 1/N

2569

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Martin Klissarov @martinklissarov.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Can AI agents adapt zero-shot, to complex multi-step language instructions in open-ended environments? We present MaestroMotif, a method for skill design that produces highly capable and steerable hierarchical agents. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08542 Code: github.com/mklissa/maestromotif

1216

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Jack Parker-Holder @jparkerholder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

1523461

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Laura @lauraruis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Do you know what rating you’ll give after reading the intro? Are your confidence scores 4 or higher? Do you not respond in rebuttal phases? Are you worried how it will look if your rating is the only 8 among 3’s? This thread is for you.

47720

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.

98434

Mikayel Samvelyan @samvelyan.com · 21/11/2024

Your LLM shall not pass! 🧙‍♂️ ... unless it's really good in reasoning and games! Check out this new amazing benchmark BALROG 👾 from @dpaglieri.bsky.social and team 👇

061

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Thomas Steinke @stein.ke · 21/11/2024

For no particular reason, I really like these starter packs: Google DeepMind: go.bsky.app/GZ4hZzu Theoretical CS: go.bsky.app/6A6GRSi ML Theory: go.bsky.app/21nFz12 Differential Privacy: go.bsky.app/A7ABG83

go.bsky.app

Google DeepMind Starter Pack

Join the conversation

87917

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Laura @lauraruis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this: Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢 🧵⬇️

36850139

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Tim Rocktäschel @handle.invalid · 20/11/2024

Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack. go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD

1610632

Mikayel Samvelyan @samvelyan.com · 19/11/2024

I am happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday! 🎓 This journey has been nothing short of extraordinary, and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has been a part of it. 🪇

2160

Reposted by Mikayel Samvelyan

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Lets get the multi-agent learning community started up here: go.bsky.app/9gsefkW

56212