2 papers
cs.AI2026
FootsiesGym: A Fighting Game Benchmark for Two-Player Zero-Sum Imperfect-Information Games
Chase McDonald, Nathan Tsang, Wesley N. Kerr
We present FootsiesGym, an open-source environment for learning in a non-trivial two-player, zero-sum, imperfect-information game. Built on HiFight's minimalist 2D fighting game Fo…
cs.LG2026
EMAgnet: Parameter-Space EMA Regularization for Policy Gradient Self-Play in Large Games
Tristan Maidment, JB Lanier, Chase McDonald +5
Recent work has established that regularized policy gradient methods such as PPO, when used in self-play, can match or exceed specialized game-theoretic algorithms for solving two-…