Athul Paul Jacob

Chief AI Officer, Percepta AI

Partner, General Catalyst

Joined

October 2016

Names

Athul Paul Jacob (Preferred)

Emails

****@uwaterloo.ca (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@umontreal.ca (Confirmed)

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)

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****@percepta.ai (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Chief AI Officer

Percepta AI (percepta.ai)

2024 – Present

Partner

General Catalyst (generalcatalyst.com)

2024 – Present

Student Researcher

Google (google.com)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2019 – 2024

Research Intern

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab (ibm.com)

2023 – 2023

PhD Student Researcher

Facebook AI Research (fb.com)

2021 – 2021

PhD Research Intern

Facebook AI Research (fb.com)

2020 – 2020

Visiting Researcher

Mila, University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)

2016 – 2019

Undergrad student

University of Waterloo (uwaterloo.ca)

2015 – 2019

Research Intern

Facebook (fb.com)

2018 – 2018

Research Intern

Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)

2017 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Language model decoding

Multiagent RL

game theory

2019 – Present

Publications

Human-Aligned Chess With a Bit of Search
Yiming Zhang, Athul Paul Jacob, Vivian Lai, Daniel Fried, Daphne Ippolito
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search
Athul Paul Jacob, Yikang Shen, Gabriele Farina, Jacob Andreas
- Agentic Markets @ ICML'24 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search
Athul Paul Jacob, Yikang Shen, Gabriele Farina, Jacob Andreas
- R0-FoMo Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Modeling Boundedly Rational Agents with Latent Inference Budgets
Athul Jacob, Abhishek Gupta, Jacob Andreas
- GenPlan'23
- Readers: Everyone
The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search
Athul Paul Jacob, Yikang Shen, Gabriele Farina, Jacob Andreas
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Modeling Boundedly Rational Agents with Latent Inference Budgets
Athul Paul Jacob, Abhishek Gupta, Jacob Andreas
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning
Anton Bakhtin, Noam Brown, Emily Dinan, Gabriele Farina, Colin Flaherty, Daniel Fried, Jonathan Gray, Hengyuan Hu, Athul Paul Jacob, Mojtaba Komeili, Minae Kwon, Adam Lerer, Mike Lewis, Alexander H Miller, Adi Renduchintala, Stephen Roller, Weiyan Shi, Alexander Wei, David J Wu, Hugh Zhang
- 04 May 2023 (modified: 12 May 2023)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning
Anton Bakhtin, David J Wu, Adam Lerer, Jonathan Gray, Athul Paul Jacob, Gabriele Farina, Alexander H Miller, Noam Brown
- 08 Oct 2022 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- Deep RL Workshop 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning
Anton Bakhtin, David J Wu, Adam Lerer, Jonathan Gray, Athul Paul Jacob, Gabriele Farina, Alexander H Miller, Noam Brown
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 02 Mar 2023
- ICLR 2023 notable top 5%
- Readers: Everyone
Modeling Strong and Human-like Gameplay with KL-Regularized Search
Athul Paul Jacob, David J Wu, Gabriele Farina, Adam Lerer, Hengyuan Hu, Anton Bakhtin, Jacob Andreas, Noam Brown
- Published: 25 Apr 2022, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2022 Workshop on Gamification and Multiagent Solutions
- Readers: Everyone

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