PokaiTrainer: Scaling Equilibrium Search to Competitive Pok'emon VGC

arXiv:2608.29197 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.GT · Submitted 2026-08-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.GT

Submitted: 2026-08-29

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/pmariglia/foul-play

Terminology

• Student of Games — 10× in this paper
• Regret — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Archetype — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Nash Equilibrium — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Open Team Sheets — 2× in this paper
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• PokeLLMon: A Human-Parity Agent for Pokemon Battles with Large Language Models

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