Sasha Vezhnevets

Researcher, DeepMind

Joined

July 2019

Names

Sasha Vezhnevets (Preferred)

Alexander Vezhnevets

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

DeepMind (deepmind.com)

2015 – Present

Postdoc

University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)

2013 – 2015

PhD student

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ethz.ch)

2008 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning

Deep Reinforcement Learning

2015 – Present

Publications

Evaluating Generalization Capabilities of LLM-Based Agents in Mixed-Motive Scenarios Using Concordia
Chandler Smith, Marwa Abdulhai, Manfred Diaz, Marko Tesic, Rakshit Trivedi, Sasha Vezhnevets, Lewis Hammond, Jesse Clifton, Minsuk Chang, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, John P Agapiou, Jayd Matyas, Danny Karmon, Beining Zhang, Jim Dilkes, Akash Kundu, Jord Nguyen, Emanuel Tewolde, Jebish Purbey, Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala et al. (66 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track 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
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
Diversity Through Exclusion (DTE): Niche Identification for Reinforcement Learning through Value-Decomposition
Peter Sunehag, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Igor Mordatch, Joel Z. Leibo
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 28 Apr 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Melting Pot 2.0
John P. Agapiou, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Jayd Matyas, Yiran Mao, Peter Sunehag, Raphael Köster, Udari Madhushani, Kavya Kopparapu, Ramona Comanescu, DJ Strouse, Michael Bradley Johanson, Sukhdeep Singh, Julia Haas, Igor Mordatch, Dean Mobbs, Joel Z. Leibo
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 28 Apr 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Hidden Agenda: a Social Deduction Game with Diverse Learned Equilibria
Kavya Kopparapu, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Jayd Matyas, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, John P. Agapiou, Kevin R. McKee, Richard Everett, Janusz Marecki, Joel Z. Leibo, Thore Graepel
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 28 Apr 2023
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Scalable Evaluation of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Melting Pot
Joel Z. Leibo, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Alexander Vezhnevets, John P. Agapiou, Peter Sunehag, Raphael Koster, Jayd Matyas, Charlie Beattie, Igor Mordatch, Thore Graepel
- 2021 (modified: 11 Jan 2023)
- ICML 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Statistical discrimination in learning agents
Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Kevin R. McKee, Yiran Mao, Ben Coppin, Silvia Chiappa, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Michiel A. Bakker, Yoram Bachrach, Suzanne Sadedin, William Isaac, Karl Tuyls, Joel Z. Leibo
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 28 Apr 2023
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
A learning agent that acquires social norms from public sanctions in decentralized multi-agent settings
Eugene Vinitsky, Raphael Köster, John P. Agapiou, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Joel Z. Leibo
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 28 Apr 2023
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Scalable Evaluation of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Melting Pot
Joel Z. Leibo, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, John P. Agapiou, Peter Sunehag, Raphael Koster, Jayd Matyas, Charles Beattie, Igor Mordatch, Thore Graepel
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 28 Apr 2023
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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