Record · Pokémon Emerald · PokéAgent Challenge (NeurIPS 2025, speedrun track)
2nd: reached the first gym in 1:14:43
Verified Official results published by the challenge organizers.
Last verified: Oct 18, 2026 · Last checked: Oct 18, 2026How was this run measured?
- Model
- Hamburg PokéRunners agent (model not disclosed) (source label: “Hamburg PokéRunners agent (model not disclosed)”)
- Agent
- Hamburg PokéRunners
- Game
- Pokémon Emerald
- Harness
- PokéAgent Challenge Emerald environment (real-time; game keeps running while the agent thinks)
- Inputs
- per team (documented in the paper's appendix)
- Tools
- Pure RL: recurrent PPO with milestone-based rewards
- Assistance
- none allowed during evaluation runs
- Budget
- scored on wall-clock time and action count
- Status
- published
- 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
- published Mar 16, 2026 · discovered Oct 18, 2026
- Changes
- Historical record. Nothing to update unless the source changes.
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