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post-training @ Lovable | adjunct prof @ Aalto | ex-Google DeepMind
Helsinki, Finland ericmalmi.com Joined October 2012
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🚨 New preprint on creative chess puzzle generation with diffusion models is out! ♟️

In his exceptional MSc thesis, @AatuSelkee introduced a new RL recipe on top of a masked diffusion model improving the previous SOTA.

We're open-sourcing the model and releasing a demo 🚀

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if you're at #icml2025, come check out our spotlight poster on "Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models" ♟️

📜: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12119
⏲️: Wed 16 Jul 11 am - 1:30 pm PDT
📍: East Exhibition Hall A-B #E-2508
demo: goo.gle/ChessChamp
arxiv.org Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with... Advancing planning and reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is one of the key prerequisites towards unlocking their potential for performing reliably in complex and impactful...
Eric Malmi Verified account @ericmalmi
thank you for the recognition @GaryMarcus!

there's room for improvement, but I find it quite remarkable that an LLM learns to play creative sacrifices like this (best move according to Stockfish)
Gary Marcus Verified account @GaryMarcus May 19, 2025
@cfchabris @ericmalmi has kind of done that and it does pretty well except in weird positions - where it still sometimes make illegal moves.

Confirming your conjecture and mine, if I understand his results correctly.

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12119…
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