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Heatz (PokéAgent team)

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Benchmark competitor · project: PokéAgent Challenge (NeurIPS 2025, speedrun track) · games: Pokémon Emerald · creator profile

Achievements

Achievements
ModelGameAchievementRun configStatusDate
Heatz agent (model not disclosed)
Heatz
Pokémon Emerald 1st: reached the first gym (Roxanne) in 40:13 (1,608 actions)
Nearly twice as fast as 2nd place.
Last verified: Oct 18, 2026 · Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
How was this run measured?
Model
Heatz agent (model not disclosed) · agent: Heatz
Game
Pokémon Emerald
Project
PokéAgent Challenge (NeurIPS 2025, speedrun track)
Harness
PokéAgent Challenge Emerald environment (real-time; game keeps running while the agent thinks)
Inputs
per team (documented in the paper's appendix)
Tools
Scripted Policy Distillation: an LLM writes scripted policies, distilled into a neural net and refined with RL
Assistance
none allowed during evaluation runs
Budget
scored on wall-clock time and action count
Verification
Verified Official results published by the challenge organizers.
Evidence
PokéAgent Challenge paper (organizers), Sec. 5.2 & App. C (operator)
PokéAgent Challenge: Speedrunning track (operator)
Unknown
underlying model(s) used by the team (not in our source)
Dates
evidence dated Mar 16, 2026
Recorded
published Mar 16, 2026 · discovered by AI vs Games Oct 18, 2026
Changes
Historical record. Nothing to update unless the source changes.
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PokéAgent Challenge Emerald environment (real-time; game keeps running while the agent thinks)
per team (documented in the paper's appendix)
Verified Mar 16, 2026

Memorable failures

No failures on record. That means none have been sourced yet, not that none happened.

Runs

RunGameModels (role)StatusStarted
pokeagent-heatzPokémon Emeraldnot disclosed (policy (model not disclosed))published–

Model versions used

not disclosed

Milestones timeline

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