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cs.LG2026
Reinforcement Learning in Super Mario Bros: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Optimal Level Design in World 1-1
Jesse Ponnock, Lucas Ho
World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros is widely celebrated as a masterclass in game design: its progressive structure is credited with teaching players core mechanics through the level its…
cs.LG2025
The Data Efficiency Frontier of Financial Foundation Models: Scaling Laws from Continued Pretraining
Jesse Ponnock
Domain-adaptive pretraining (DAPT) offers a practical path to specializing large language models for high-value domains without full retraining. We conduct an early-stage scaling-l…