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LLM agents build superior Hearthstone AI, surpassing top players · 4 sources tracked

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Researchers have developed AutoTavern, a self-improving LLM agent system that can autonomously create a functional simulator for the game Hearthstone Battlegrounds and train a reinforcement learning agent. This AI agent, TavernAgent, achieved a rating of approximately 15,000 on the live game ladder, outperforming the top human players. Furthermore, TavernAgent demonstrated superior performance on a benchmark test, answering 91% of play tasks compared to 63% for other frontier LLMs, and making decisions significantly faster. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates LLM agents' capability to autonomously develop complex systems and achieve superhuman performance in specialized domains.

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COVERAGE [4]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Changlian Ma, Limin Wang ·

    Build, Don't Play: Self-Improving LLM Research Agents Develop a Hearthstone Battlegrounds AI That Rivals Top Players

    arXiv:2610.33845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can LLM agents carry a hard real-world problem from raw data to a system that holds its own against people? We study this in Hearthstone Battlegrounds, an eight-player auto-battler with stochastic shops and battles, hidden informati…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Harish Santhanalakshmi Ganesan ·

    Infinity Machine: a self-improving AI agent for research

    arXiv:2610.35579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the Infinity Machine, a self-improving AI agent that we use for research on problems whose answers aprogram or data can check. Each candidate solution is produced by a full tool-using agent that works for up to an hour in…

  3. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Limin Wang ·

    Build, Don't Play: Self-Improving LLM Research Agents Develop a Hearthstone Battlegrounds AI That Rivals Top Players

    Can LLM agents carry a hard real-world problem from raw data to a system that holds its own against people? We study this in Hearthstone Battlegrounds, an eight-player auto-battler with stochastic shops and battles, hidden information and nearly a thousand interacting cards. We p…

  4. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Build, Don't Play: Self-Improving LLM Research Agents Develop a Hearthstone Battlegrounds AI That Rivals Top Players

    AutoTavern demonstrates that self-improving LLM research agents can autonomously build a faithful game simulator and train a reinforcement learning agent that surpasses top human players in Hearthstone Battlegrounds.

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