Katja Hofmann
Senior Principal Researcher
News & features
Awards | AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity" by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson
Awards | AIIDE 2020
Best Paper Award at AIIDE 2020
Best Paper Award at the 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2020) for “It’s Unwieldy and It Takes a Lot of Time.” Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Agents in Commercial Games by Jacob, Devlin and…
Awards | SIGIR 2018
Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR 2018
Best Short Paper Award for “Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models Using Adversarial Learning” with Daniel Cohen, Katja Hofmann, and W. Bruce Croft, SIGIR 2018.
In the news | Microsoft Blog
Project Malmo, which lets researchers use Minecraft for AI research, makes public debut
Microsoft has made Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research, available for novice to experienced programmers on GitHub via an open-source license.
In the news | BBC News
Minecraft to run artificial intelligence experiments
Microsoft, owner of the popular video game, revealed that computer scientists and amateurs will be able to evaluate and develop AI software using its virtual landscapes from July. The company says Minecraft is more "sophisticated" than existing AI research simulations…
In the news | CBC Radio
Minecraft is the new testing ground for AI
An artificially intelligent program developed by Google called AlphaGo has now beaten the reigning human player of the board game Go. AlphaGo joins Deep Blue and Watson, which have both overcome their human competition to become the champions of the…
In the news | CNet
Microsoft sees Minecraft as AI proving ground
Scientists can now use the popular game to let artificial intelligence systems learn how to do things.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft is using Minecraft to develop artificial intelligence tech for the real world
Today, Microsoft announced a project that enables artificial intelligence researchers to tap into the hit title to sculpt and develop their tech.
In the news | Microsoft Blog
Project Malmo: Using Minecraft to build more intelligent technology
Microsoft researchers are using Project Malmo for their own research, and they have made it available to a small group of academic researchers under a private beta.