Record · Pokémon Emerald · PokéAgent Challenge (NeurIPS 2025, speedrun track)

1st: reached the first gym (Roxanne) in 40:13 (1,608 actions)

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Last verified: Oct 18, 2026 · Last checked: Oct 18, 2026

Record card: 1st: reached the first gym (Roxanne) in 40:13 (1,608 actions)

Nearly twice as fast as 2nd place.

How was this run measured?

Model: Heatz agent (model not disclosed) (source label: “Heatz agent (model not disclosed)”)
Agent: Heatz
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: 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
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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