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Results from a triple-blind mixed-method user study into the effectiveness of mixed-initiative tools for the procedural generation of game levels are presented. A tool which generates levels using interactive evolutionary optimisation was…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sean P. Walton , Alma A. M. Rahat , James Stovold

Pairwise comparison labels are more informative and less variable than class labels, but generating them poses a challenge: their number grows quadratically in the dataset size. We study a natural experimental design objective, namely,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Yuan Guo , Jennifer Dy , Deniz Erdogmus , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Susan Ostmo , J. Peter Campbell , Michael F. Chiang , Stratis Ioannidis

Since software performance requirements are documented in natural language, quantifying them into mathematical forms is essential for software engineering. Yet, the vagueness in performance requirements and uncertainty of human cognition…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shihai Wang , Tao Chen

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaborate to train high-performance deep learning models while keeping the training data locally. However, when the local data of all clients are not independent and identically distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xutong Mu , Yulong Shen , Ke Cheng , Xueli Geng , Jiaxuan Fu , Tao Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang

This paper provides an invariant federated learning system for resource-constrained edge intelligence. This framework can mitigate the impact of heterogeneity and asynchrony via exit strategy and invariant penalty. We introduce parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Ziruo Hao , Zhenhua Cui , Tao Yang , Bo Hu , Xiaofeng Wu , Hui Feng

Online community platforms require dynamic personalized retrieval and recommendation that can continuously adapt to evolving user interests and new documents. However, optimizing models to handle such changes in real-time remains a major…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Youngjune Lee , Haeyu Jeong , Changgeon Lim , Jeong Choi , Hongjun Lim , Hangon Kim , Jiyoon Kwon , Saehun Kim

We propose the Interactive Constrained MAP-Elites, a quality-diversity solution for game content generation, implemented as a new feature of the Evolutionary Dungeon Designer: a mixed-initiative co-creativity tool for designing dungeons.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alberto Alvarez , Steve Dahlskog , Jose Font , Julian Togelius

We propose a new method for event extraction (EE) task based on an imitation learning framework, specifically, inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) via generative adversarial network (GAN). The GAN estimates proper rewards according to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Tongtao Zhang , Heng Ji

Iterated conditional expectation (ICE) g-computation is an estimation approach for addressing time-varying confounding for both longitudinal and time-to-event data. Unlike other g-computation implementations, ICE avoids the need to specify…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-14 Paul N Zivich , Rachael K Ross , Bonnie E Shook-Sa , Stephen R Cole , Jessie K Edwards

Previous work has shown that one can often greatly speed up static analysis by computing data flows not for every edge in the program's control-flow graph but instead only along definition-use chains. This yields a so-called sparse static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Kadiray Karakaya , Eric Bodden

Differential evolution(DE) is a conventional algorithm with fast convergence speed. However, DE may be trapped in local optimal solution easily. Many researchers devote themselves to improving DE. In our previously work, whale swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Haozhen Dong , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li , Haoran Zhong , Bing Zeng

There has been a surge in Explainable-AI (XAI) methods that provide insights into the workings of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. Integrated Gradients (IG) is a popular XAI algorithm that attributes relevance scores to input features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ashwin Bhat , Arijit Raychowdhury

Initially used to rank web pages, PageRank has now been applied in many fields. With the growing scale of graph, accelerating PageRank computing is urged and designing parallel algorithm is a feasible solution. In this paper, two parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Qi Zhang , Rongxia Tang , Zhengan Yao , Jun Liang

Here we introduce a model in which individuals differ in the rate at which they seek new interactions with others, making rational decisions modeled as general symmetric two-player games. Once a link between two individuals has formed, the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jorge M. Pacheco , Arne Traulsen , Martin A. Nowak

Evolutionary model merging enables the creation of high-performing multi-task models but remains computationally prohibitive for consumer hardware. We introduce MERGE$^3$, an efficient framework that makes evolutionary merging feasible on a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Tommaso Mencattini , Adrian Robert Minut , Donato Crisostomi , Andrea Santilli , Emanuele Rodolà

As a typical model-based evolutionary algorithm (EA), estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) possesses unique characteristics and has been widely applied to global optimization. However, the common-used Gaussian EDA (GEDA) usually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Yongsheng Liang , Zhigang Ren , Xianghua Yao , Zuren Feng , An Chen

Designers of AI agents often iterate on the reward function in a trial-and-error process until they get the desired behavior, but this only guarantees good behavior in the training environment. We propose structuring this process as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Sören Mindermann , Rohin Shah , Adam Gleave , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Code-generating Artificial Intelligence has gained popularity within both professional and educational programming settings over the past several years. While research and pedagogy are beginning to cope with this change, computing students…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nicholas Gardella , James Prather , Juho Leinonen , Paul Denny , Raymond Pettit , Sara L. Riggs

Recent advances in Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) have improved emotional support generation by fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). However, common psychological errors still persist. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chao Zhang , Xin Shi , Xueqiao Zhang , Yifan Zhu , Yi Yang , Yawei Luo

With the development of artificial intelligence, writing assistants (WAs) are changing the way people interact with text, creating lengthy outputs that can be overwhelming for users. The programming field has long addressed this issue, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Sergey Titov , Agnia Sergeyuk , Timofey Bryksin