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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 42 of 42 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.21365.

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This paper cites Cause and Effect: Can Large Language Models Truly Understand Causality?.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Cause and Effect: Can Large Language Models Truly Understand Causality?

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This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models MapEval: A Map-Based Evaluation of Geo-Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models

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This paper cites Bayeschess: A computer chess program based on bayesian networks.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Bayeschess: A computer chess program based on bayesian networks

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Font and Tobias Mahlmann

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This paper cites Enabling self-improving agents to learn at test time with human-in-the-loop guidance.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Enabling self-improving agents to learn at test time with human-in-the-loop guidance

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Measuring massive multitask language understanding

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models OpenRLHF: An Easy-to-use, Scalable and High-performance RLHF Framework

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This paper cites A Survey on Large Language Model-Based Game Agents.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models A Survey on Large Language Model-Based Game Agents

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This paper cites PokeLLMon: A Human-Parity Agent for Pokemon Battles with Large Language Models.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models PokeLLMon: A Human-Parity Agent for Pokemon Battles with Large Language Models

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This paper cites C-eval: A multi-level multi-discipline chinese evaluation suite for foundation models.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models C-eval: A multi-level multi-discipline chinese evaluation suite for foundation models

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This paper cites Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites Mind the GAP: Glimpse-based Active Perception improves generalization and sample efficiency of visual reasoning.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Mind the GAP: Glimpse-based Active Perception improves generalization and sample efficiency of visual reasoning

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This paper cites School chinese benchmark, 2018.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models School chinese benchmark, 2018

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This paper cites CodeI/O: Condensing Reasoning Patterns via Code Input-Output Prediction.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models CodeI/O: Condensing Reasoning Patterns via Code Input-Output Prediction

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Simpo: Simple preference optimization with a reference-free reward

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This paper cites Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

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This paper cites Creating pro-level AI for a real-time fighting game using deep reinforcement learning.

Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Creating pro-level AI for a real-time fighting game using deep reinforcement learning

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Wainwright, Pamela Mishkin, Chong Zhang, Sandhini Agarwal, Katarina Slama, et al

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Manning, Stefano Ermon, and Chelsea Finn

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Mastering the game of go with deep neural networks and tree search

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Bayes' Bluff: Opponent Modelling in Poker

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Brown, Adam Santoro, Aditya Gupta, et al

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Meta-Reasoner: Dynamic Guidance for Optimized Inference-time Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Le, Ed H

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models CharacterEval: A Chinese Benchmark for Role-Playing Conversational Agent Evaluation

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models StarCraft II: A New Challenge for Reinforcement Learning

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Mind's Eye of LLMs: Visualization-of-Thought Elicits Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Agents Play Thousands of 3D Video Games

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Policy-to-language: Train llms to explain decisions with flow-matching generated rewards

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Mastering complex control in moba games with deep reinforcement learning

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models C har P oet: A C hinese classical poetry generation system based on token-free LLM

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Training interactive agent in large fps game map with rule-enhanced reinforcement learning

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Ape210K: A Large-Scale and Template-Rich Dataset of Math Word Problems

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models PokerBench: Training Large Language Models to become Professional Poker Players

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Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application cites this paper.

Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models

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SyncPlan: Long-Horizon LLM Coordination with Explicit Synchronization and Adaptive Correction Think in Games: Learning to Reason in Games via Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models

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