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We investigate two representation alternatives for the controllers of teams of cyber agents. We combine these controller representations with different evolutionary algorithms, one of which introduces a novel LLM-supported mutation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Erik Hemberg , Eric Liu , Lucille Fuller , Stephen Moskal , Una-May O'Reilly

Aggregating multiple learners through an ensemble of models aim to make better predictions by capturing the underlying distribution of the data more accurately. Different ensembling methods, such as bagging, boosting, and stacking/blending,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-03 Mohsen Shahhosseini , Guiping Hu , Hieu Pham

In this report, we inspect the application of an evolutionary approach to the game of Rack'O, which is a card game revolving around the notion of decision making. We first apply the evolutionary technique for obtaining a set of rules over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Rohan Saha , Cassidy Pirlot

The AI model has surpassed human players in the game of Go, and it is widely believed that the AI model has encoded new knowledge about the Go game beyond human players. In this way, explaining the knowledge encoded by the AI model and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Huilin Zhou , Huijie Tang , Mingjie Li , Hao Zhang , Zhenyu Liu , Quanshi Zhang

A co-evolutionary algorithm (CA) based chess player is presented. Implementation details of the algorithms, namely coding, population, variation operators are described. The alpha-beta or mini-max like behaviour of the player is achieved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Nuno Ramos , Sergio Salgado , Agostinho C Rosa

In this work, we presented a study regarding two important aspects of evolving feature-based game evaluation functions: the choice of genome representation and the choice of opponent used to test the model. We compared three…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Radosław Miernik , Jakub Kowalski

Evolutionary game dynamics in structured populations has been extensively explored in past decades. However, most previous studies assume that payoffs of individuals are fully determined by the strategic behaviors of interacting parties and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-19 Qi Su , Lei Zhou , Long Wang

Ensembling is a popular method used to improve performance as a last resort. However, ensembling multiple models finetuned from a single pretrained model has been not very effective; this could be due to the lack of diversity among ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Sosuke Kobayashi , Shun Kiyono , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

Predicting the direction of assets have been an active area of study and a difficult task. Machine learning models have been used to build robust models to model the above task. Ensemble methods is one of them showing results better than a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-25 Avinash Barnwal , Hari Pad Bharti , Aasim Ali , Vishal Singh

Applying neural network (NN) methods in games can lead to various new and exciting game dynamics not previously possible. However, they also lead to new challenges such as the lack of large, clean datasets, varying player skill levels, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Mathias Löwe , Jennifer Villareale , Evan Freed , Aleksanteri Sladek , Jichen Zhu , Sebastian Risi

Heterogeneous ensembles built from the predictions of a wide variety and large number of diverse base predictors represent a potent approach to building predictive models for problems where the ideal base/individual predictor may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Ana Stanescu , Gaurav Pandey

Chess, a deterministic game with perfect information, has long served as a benchmark for studying strategic decision-making and artificial intelligence. Traditional chess engines or tools for analysis primarily focus on calculating optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Daren Zhong , Dingcheng Huang , Clayton Greenberg

The Elo system for rating chess players, also used in other games and sports, was adopted by the World Chess Federation over four decades ago. Although not without controversy, it is accepted as generally reliable and provides a method for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-31 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou

Student performance prediction is a critical research problem to understand the students' needs, present proper learning opportunities/resources, and develop the teaching quality. However, traditional machine learning methods fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Yinkai Wang , Aowei Ding , Kaiyi Guan , Shixi Wu , Yuanqi Du

Ensemble learning is a process by which multiple base learners are strategically generated and combined into one composite learner. There are two features that are essential to an ensemble's performance, the individual accuracies of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Wenjing Li , Randy C. Paffenroth , David Berthiaume

A replicator dynamic for non-exchangeable agents in a continuous action space is formulated and its well-posedness is proven in a space of probability measures. The non-exchangeability allows for the analysis of evolutionary games involving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 H. Yoshioka , M. Tsujimura , T. Tanaka

Competition is a primary driver of player satisfaction and engagement in multiplayer online games. Traditional matchmaking systems aim at creating matches involving teams of similar aggregated individual skill levels, such as Elo score or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Sofia M Nikolakaki , Ogheneovo Dibie , Ahmad Beirami , Nicholas Peterson , Navid Aghdaie , Kazi Zaman

This paper presents a model of network formation in repeated games where the players adapt their strategies and network ties simultaneously using a simple reinforcement-learning scheme. It is demonstrated that the coevolutionary dynamics of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Ardeshir Kianercy , Aram Galstyan

Go gaming is a struggle for territory control between rival, black and white, stones on a board. We model the Go dynamics in a game by means of the Ising model whose interaction coefficients reflect essential rules and tactics employed in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Matías Alvarado , Arturo Yee , Carlos Villarreal

This paper introduces a new framework for real-time decision making in video games. An Ensemble agent is a compound agent composed of multiple agents, each with its own tasks or goals to achieve. Usually when dealing with real-time decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Philip Rodgers , John Levine