Katja Hofmann
@katjahofmann
At Microsoft Research. Lead of aka.ms/game-intellige… - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. iclr.cc Board.
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At the 2023 Summer School, Katja Hofmann Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, discussed the journey toward human-like AI in video games.🎥Watch her talk: youtu.be/8G-ZBPkqSCs 👉Learn more about the Summer School in 2025: school.gameaibook.org
In my first week Microsoft Research, almost 15 years ago, I was introduced to deep learning. I knew it was important, but still had no idea just how world-changing this and later AI developments would be. A fun reflection on this and a lot more: news.microsoft.com/source/feature…
(1/3) An AI-generated gaming experience—move, shoot, explore—and every frame is created on the fly by an AI world model, responding to player inputs in real-time. Try it here: copilot.microsoft.com/wham We just launched Microsoft Copilot Gaming Experiences, built on cutting-edge AI research
🎉 Our Meta-RL survey is now published in Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning! A deep dive into how agents can learn to learn 🤖🧠 Huge kudos to Jacob Beck & Risto Vuorio for leading the charge, and to co-authors Evan Liu, Zheng Xiong, Chelsea Finn & Shimon Whiteson!
Really enjoyed Danqi Chen‘s keynote at #ICLR2025 this morning. She made a great case for research on LM training on academic budgets with focus on model architectures, data quality and post training coupled with systematic benchmarking
Our paper "scaling laws for pre-training agents and world models" has been accepted for publication at ICML Conference - congrats to my awesome collaborators Tim Pearce Tabish Rashid David Bignell Raluca Stevenson and Sam Devlin! Pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.04434
On my way to Detroit for The AAMAS Conference! Looking forward to presenting the last work from my PhD at the main conference, and work from Microsoft Research at the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop. More info👇 If you'd like to chat, feel free to DM me!
Happy to share that the #WiML2025 Symposium will be co-located with #ICML2025 in Vancouver! 🎉 🇨🇦 Many thanks to this year’s organizers: @mariehendriksen, Sophia Abraham, Meriem Mehri, Ninon Lizé Masclef, and Christianah Titilope Oyewale! Looking forward to meeting you there!
Presenting our recent work on evaluating world models using an adapted VLMs at Workshop on Assessing World Models (ICML) #ICML2025! 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.17967 With amazing collaborators: Tabish Rashid, David Bignell, Raluca Stevenson, Abdelhak Lemkhenter, Katja Hofmann, Sam Devlin, and Sarah Parisot.
