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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks for sharing, Marc!! 😊

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Seth Karten @sethkarten.ai · May 26

Excited to share that the PokeAgent challenge was accepted as a NeurIPS competition!

This should serve as an excellent benchmark for competitive games AND ‘speedrunning’ the RPG. I hope to see both the RL and LLM agent communities working together here to eval agents in Pokemon

More info soon👀

NeurIPS 2025 competition track submission summary, scores, and recommendation to accept

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · May 14

I’m defending my thesis on Friday!! 🤺

Message me for the Zoom link

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Feb 20

What do you mean? This is excellent

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Jan 22

Happy to announce our paper is accepted to #ICLR 🥳

Great working with Zhuorui Ye (a fantastic undergrad applying for PhD!), Geoff Gordon, & Fei Fang on this project.

💫 Stay tuned for an interpretable human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning agent that dramatically reduces human annotation burden!

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ahh I would come if it was 11:30pm

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thank you!

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Dec 12

Hi! Could you add me please? I'm a PhD candidate in machine learning at CMU

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 18

I created a starter pack for people who are or have been affiliated with the Machine Learning Department at CMU. Let me know if I missed someone!

go.bsky.app/QLTVEph

#AcademicSky

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Dec 3

Tagging my amazing collaborators w/ BlueSky accounts: @ruiyiwang.bsky.social @zhiyuchen.bsky.social

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Dec 3

🗓️ Schedule might change:

12/14:
* 10:40am, Oral @ GenAI4Health
* 11:20am, Poster @ AIM-FM
* 1:00pm, Poster @ GenAI4Health
* 4:20pm, Poster @ GenAI4Health
* 5:10pm, Poster @ AIM-FM

12/15:
* 11:40am, Oral @ FM-EduAssess
* 12:25pm, Poster @ FM-EduAssess

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Dec 3

🇨🇦 Attending my last NeurIPS as a PhD student! Presenting our recent work, Patient-Ψ, at a few workshops --- come by! Schedule in 🧵

I'm on the job market, looking for TT faculty roles & post-docs.

DM if you'd like to chat (or invite me to a party 🥳)!

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Dec 1

See you there 👀

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hi Bsky people 👋 I'm a PhD candidate in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University.
My research focuses on interactive AI, involving:
🤖 reinforcement learning,
🧠 foundation models, and
👩‍💻 human-centered AI.

Also a founding co-organizer of the MineRL competitions 🖤 Follow me for ML updates!

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 25

I had the opportunity to intern with @katjahofmann.bsky.social in 2021! She is an amazing mentor with a fantastic team & I highly recommend applying 💫

Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social · Nov 25

Excited to start my #bsky journey by posting about opportunities in my team 🤩 We're the aka.ms/game-intelli... team at Microsoft Research, looking for awesome Research Interns to work with us on generative AI for applications in video games and beyond. Is that you? Apply here: aka.ms/msr-internsh...

Game Intelligence - Microsoft Research

Microsoft's vision for gaming is a world where players are empowered to play the games they want, with the people they want, whenever they want, where-ever they are, and on any device. The Game Intell...

aka.ms

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Nov 24

RL list is getting kinda full but I'm mostly here for new papers so... go.bsky.app/2Gibu1a

Chime in! No rules but the title

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 22

Oh no... I fear this might be me

Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 21

Not sure of the exact problems you looked at, but we've also found that using VLMs to do simple image annotations (e.g., location of an agent in a grid) can be very error-prone 😅

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 20

I had a great time speaking with @khulick.bsky.social about AI safety & our work on training better-behaved agents via the BASALT competition series!

Excited about the potential for using Minecraft as a sandbox to develop safer AI systems. 🎮

Kathryn Hulick @kathrynhulick.substack.com · Nov 20

I often write about the intersection of #AI and #ethics - here's my recent story for teens about the alignment problem and AI safety @snexplores.bsky.social @stephmilani.bsky.social
www.snexplores.org/article/arti...

How to design artificial intelligence that acts nice — and only nice

Today’s bots can’t turn against us, but they can cause harm. “AI safety” aims to train this tech so it will always be honest, harmless and helpful.

www.snexplores.org

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Shannon McWeeney @wondermixtape.bsky.social · Nov 17

For those interested in ethical implications of AI, as well as work on Responsible and Trustworthy AI - here is a starter pack (non-exhaustive) to help find out more or connect with colleagues go.bsky.app/RnucJWZ

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 20

👀👀👀

Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 20

👋 Could I be added?

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks, Miguel!!

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Steph Milani @stephmilani.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks, Chase :)

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Stacey Whitaker @salesforcestacey.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've updated my starter pack of #WomenInTech. Whether you are new or established here, these women are worth following:
go.bsky.app/EL57ogD
My DMs are open. If I missed someone, let me know!

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