The PokeAgent Challenge: Competitive and Long Context Learning at Scale

Seth Karten; Jake Grigsby; Stephanie Milani; Kiran Vodrahalli; Amy Zhang; Fei Fang; Yuke Zhu; Chi Jin

Seth Karten

I am a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Princeton University advised by Chi Jin. My current research interests involve developing foundation agents that can perform closed-loop decision-making in open-ended environments at scale. Much of my research is focused on studying agents in complex envionments to limit-test fundamentals while enabling rich applications in embodied agents and economic systems.

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News

Dec 2025

🏆 NeurIPS 2025 Competition Track: The PokeAgent Challenge is now live and sponsored by Google DeepMind and IJCAI AIJ! Check out the competition website.

Oct 2025

🎤 I gave a lightning talk on PokéChamp and the PokeAgent Challenge at the 5th Annual Rutgers Robotics Workshop 2025.

Aug 2025

🎤 I gave a lightning talk at UC Berkeley's Agentic AI Summit unveiling PokéChamp—an expert-level minimax LLM agent that battles like a pro with zero fine-tuning—and the PokeAgent Challenge.

Jul 2025

⭐ PokéChamp received a Spotlight Award at ICML 2025!

Jun 2024

🎯 I presented a poster on The LLM Economist: Optimizing Policy in Multiagent Generative Simulations at the Cooperative AI Summer School.

May 2023

🏆 I am excited to announce that I have been awarded Princeton's Francis Robbins Upton Fellowship in Engineering!

Mar 2023

🌟 I am excited to announce that I have been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP)!

Selected Publications

Generative Simulacra