Akbir Khan

Joined

November 2021

Names

Akbir Khan (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University College London, University of London (ucl.ac.uk)

2021 – 2021

MS student

University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

2017 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ed Greffensette

Present

PhD Advisor

Tim Rocktäschel

Present

Expertise

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Present

AI Safety

Present

Large Language Models

Present

Publications

Programming by Backprop: An Instruction is Worth 100 Examples When Finetuning LLMs
Jonathan Cook, Silvia Sapora, Arash Ahmadian, Akbir Khan, Tim Rocktäschel, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Laura Ruis
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Factorio Learning Environment
Jack Hopkins, Mart Bakler, Akbir Khan
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
Shell Games: Control Protocols for Adversarial AI Agents
Aryan Bhatt, Cody Rushing, Adam Kaufman, Vasil Georgiev, Tyler Tracy, Akbir Khan, Buck Shlegeris
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Adaptive Deployment of Untrusted LLMs Reduces Distributed Threats
Jiaxin Wen, Vivek Hebbar, Caleb Larson, Aryan Bhatt, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Mrinank Sharma, Henry Sleight, Shi Feng, He He, Ethan Perez, Buck Shlegeris, Akbir Khan
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Language Models Learn to Mislead Humans via RLHF
Jiaxin Wen, Ruiqi Zhong, Akbir Khan, Ethan Perez, Jacob Steinhardt, Minlie Huang, Samuel R. Bowman, He He, Shi Feng
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BALROG: Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games
Davide Paglieri, Bartłomiej Cupiał, Samuel Coward, Ulyana Piterbarg, Maciej Wolczyk, Akbir Khan, Eduardo Pignatelli, Łukasz Kuciński, Lerrel Pinto, Rob Fergus, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Jack Parker-Holder, Tim Rocktäschel
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Melting Pot Contest: Charting the Future of Generalized Cooperative Intelligence
Rakshit Trivedi, Akbir Khan, Jesse Clifton, Lewis Hammond, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Dipam Chakraborty, John P Agapiou, Jayd Matyas, Sasha Vezhnevets, Barna Pásztor, Yunke Ao, Omar G. Younis, Jiawei Huang, Benjamin Swain, Haoyuan Qin, Mian Deng, Ziwei Deng, Utku Erdoğanaras, Yue Zhao, Marko Tesic et al. (6 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
JaxMARL: Multi-Agent RL Environments and Algorithms in JAX
Alexander Rutherford, Benjamin Ellis, Matteo Gallici, Jonathan Cook, Andrei Lupu, Garðar Ingvarsson, Timon Willi, Ravi Hammond, Akbir Khan, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Alexandra Souly, Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Mikayel Samvelyan, Minqi Jiang, Robert Tjarko Lange, Shimon Whiteson, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes, Tim Rocktäschel, Chris Lu et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Concordia Contest: Advancing the Cooperative Intelligence of Language Agents
Chandler Smith, Rakshit Trivedi, Jesse Clifton, Lewis Hammond, Akbir Khan, Sasha Vezhnevets, John P Agapiou, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Jayd Matyas, Danny Karmon, Marwa Abdulhai, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Natasha Jaques, Joel Z Leibo, Oliver Slumbers, Tim Baarslag, Minsuk Chang
- NeurIPS 2024 Competition Track
- Readers: Everyone
JaxMARL: Multi-Agent RL Environments in JAX
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Rutherford, Benjamin Ellis, Matteo Gallici, Jonathan Cook, Andrei Lupu, Garðar Ingvarsson, Timon Willi, Akbir Khan, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Mikayel Samvelyan, Shimon Whiteson, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes, Tim Rocktäschel, Chris Lu, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster
- 20 Feb 2024
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone

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