Training large language model (LLM) agents for adversarial games is often driven by episodic objectives such as win rate. In long-horizon settings, however, payoffs are shaped by latent strategic externalities that evolve over time, so myopic optimization and variation-based regret analyses can become vacuous even when the dynamics are predictable. To solve this problem, we introduce Implicit Strategic Optimization (ISO), a prediction-aware framework in which each agent forecasts the current strategic context and uses it to update its policy online. ISO combines a Strategic Reward Model (SRM) that estimates the long-run strategic value of actions with iso-grpo, a context-conditioned optimistic learning rule. We prove sublinear contextual regret and equilibrium convergence guarantees whose dominant terms scale with the number of context mispredictions; when prediction errors are bounded, our bounds recover the static-game rates obtained when strategic externalities are known. Experiments in 6-player No-Limit Texas Hold'em and competitive Pokemon show consistent improvements in long-term return over strong LLM and RL baselines, and graceful degradation under controlled prediction noise.
Readable Minds: Emergent Theory-of-Mind-Like Behavior in LLM Poker Agents
Department of Oncology, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center(辜公亮基金会和信治癌中心医院肿瘤科);Department of Digital Content and Technologies, National Chengchi University(国立政治大学数位内容与科技学系)
Rethinking the Instruction Quality: LIFT is What You Need
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Microsoft Cloud and AI(微软云与人工智能);Jilin University(吉林大学);Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学)
Rethinking Repetition Problems of LLMs in Code Generation
Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education(高可信软件技术教育部重点实验室(北京大学));School of Computer Science, Peking University(北京大学计算机学院)
Information Retrieval Meets Large Language Models: A Strategic Report from Chinese IR Community
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学);Huawei Technologies Ltd. Co(华为技术有限公司);Jilin University(吉林大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Shandong University(山东大学);Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute(山东人工智能研究院);South China University of Technology(华南理工大学);Renmin University of China(中国人民大学);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);Wuhan University(武汉大学);Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院);Shanxi University(山西大学);Jiangxi Normal University(江西师范大学);Hefei University of Technology(合肥工业大学);Baidu Inc.(百度公司);Tianjin University(天津大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Chongqing University of Technology(重庆理工大学)
School of Computing, Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学计算学院);School of EECS, The University of Queensland(昆士兰大学电气工程与计算机科学学院);FreiNexus;School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学人工智能学院)