Arnu Pretorius

Researcher, InstaDeep

Joined

March 2019

Names

Arnu Pretorius (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@instadeep.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

InstaDeep (instadeep.com)

2020 – Present

PhD student

Stellenbosch University (sun.ac.za)

2017 – 2019

MS student

Stellenbosch University (sun.ac.za)

2015 – 2016

Undergrad student

Stellenbosch University (sun.ac.za)

2011 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Steve Kroon

2017 – 2019

PhD Advisor

Herman Kamper

2017 – 2019

Expertise

Large Language Models

2022 – Present

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

2020 – Present

Reinforcement Learning

2020 – Present

Publications

Multi-Task Sequence Models Generalize in Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob, Omer, Oussama Hidaoui, Siddarth Singh, Juan Claude Formanek, Felix Chalumeau, Omayma Mahjoub, Sasha Abramowitz, Ruan John de Kock, Wiem Khlifi, Louay Ben Nessir, Simon Verster Du Toit, Daniel Rajaonarivonivelomanantsoa, Asim Awad Osman, Arnol Manuel Fokam, Refiloe Shabe, Ulrich Paquet, Arnu Pretorius
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Memory-Enhanced Neural Solvers for Routing Problems
Felix Chalumeau, Refiloe Shabe, Noah De Nicola, Arnu Pretorius, Thomas D Barrett, Nathan Grinsztajn
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Breaking the Performance Ceiling in Reinforcement Learning requires Inference Strategies
Felix Chalumeau, Daniel Rajaonarivonivelomanantsoa, Ruan John de Kock, Juan Claude Formanek, Sasha Abramowitz, Omayma Mahjoub, Wiem Khlifi, Simon Verster Du Toit, Louay Ben Nessir, Refiloe Shabe, Arnol Manuel Fokam, Siddarth Singh, Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob, Arnu Pretorius
- NeurIPS 2025 oral
- Readers: Everyone
Oryx: a Scalable Sequence Model for Many-Agent Coordination in Offline MARL
Juan Claude Formanek, Omayma Mahjoub, Louay Ben Nessir, Sasha Abramowitz, Ruan John de Kock, Wiem Khlifi, Daniel Rajaonarivonivelomanantsoa, Simon Verster Du Toit, Arnol Manuel Fokam, Siddarth Singh, Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob, Felix Chalumeau, Arnu Pretorius
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Sable: a Performant, Efficient and Scalable Sequence Model for MARL
Omayma Mahjoub, Sasha Abramowitz, Ruan John de Kock, Wiem Khlifi, Simon Verster Du Toit, Jemma Daniel, Louay Ben Nessir, Louise Beyers, Juan Claude Formanek, Liam Clark, Arnu Pretorius
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Performant, Memory Efficient and Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Omayma Mahjoub, Sasha Abramowitz, Ruan John de Kock, Wiem Khlifi, Simon Verster Du Toit, Jemma Daniel, Louay Ben Nessir, Juan Claude Formanek, Louise Beyers, Liam Clark, Arnu Pretorius
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Memory-Enhanced Neural Solvers for Efficient Adaptation in Combinatorial Optimization
Felix Chalumeau, Refiloe Shabe, Noah De Nicola, Arnu Pretorius, Thomas D Barrett, Nathan Grinsztajn
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Putting Data at the Centre of Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Juan Claude Formanek, Louise Beyers, Callum Rhys Tilbury, Jonathan Phillip Shock, Arnu Pretorius
- Accepted by DMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Coordination Failure in Cooperative Offline MARL
Callum Rhys Tilbury, Juan Claude Formanek, Louise Beyers, Jonathan Phillip Shock, Arnu Pretorius
- ARLET 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Dispelling the Mirage of Progress in Offline MARL through Standardised Baselines and Evaluation
Juan Claude Formanek, Callum Rhys Tilbury, Louise Beyers, Jonathan Phillip Shock, Arnu Pretorius
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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