Eric Malmi

@ericmalmi

Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, building Gemini | Adjunct Professor @AaltoUniversity

Zurich, Switzerland

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Eric Malmi
@ericmalmi
Dec 6, 2024
Language models can't play chess, right?♟️ Excited to share our latest experiment that let's you play chess against a Gemini model!
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Eric Malmi
@ericmalmi
Jul 16, 2025
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
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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...
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Eric Malmi
@ericmalmi
May 20, 2025
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
@GaryMarcus
May 19, 2025
Replying to @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…
Eric Malmi
@ericmalmi
Dec 12, 2024
multiple long-time dreams coming true at once: ✅ give a talk at NeurIPS ♟️ play chess on a stage 🤡 make my international debut as a rapper thanks to the audience for a lively discussion that went on for a good hour after the talk and to my amazing co-presenters @anianruoss
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Eric Malmi
@ericmalmi
Dec 11, 2024
if you're at #NeurIPS2024, want to learn how to make LLMs really good at chess and see a live demo, come and visit the @GoogleDeepMind booth tomorrow at 9:30 am!
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