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We consider the problem of team selection within multiagent adversarial team games. We propose BERTeam, a novel algorithm that uses a transformer-based deep neural network with Masked Language Model training to select the best team of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Pranav Rajbhandari , Prithviraj Dasgupta , Donald Sofge

Digital collectible card games are not only a growing part of the video game industry, but also an interesting research area for the field of computational intelligence. This game genre allows researchers to deal with hidden information,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Pablo García-Sánchez , Alberto Tonda , Antonio J. Fernández-Leiva , Carlos Cotta

Neuroevolutionary algorithms, automatic searches of neural network structures by means of evolutionary techniques, are computationally costly procedures. In spite of this, due to the great performance provided by the architectures which are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Unai Garciarena , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado , Roberto Santana , Alexander Mendiburu

Generating tests for games is challenging due to the high degree of randomisation inherent to games and hard-to-reach program states that require sophisticated gameplay. The test generator NEATEST tackles these challenges by combining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Patric Feldmeier , Katrin Schmelz , Gordon Fraser

Neuroevolution is one of the methodologies that can be used for learning optimal architecture during training. It uses evolutionary algorithms to generate the topology of artificial neural networks and its parameters. The main benefits are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 M. Pietroń , D. Żurek , K. Faber , R. Corizzo

Training an agent to adapt to specific tasks through co-optimization of morphology and control has widely attracted attention. However, whether there exists an optimal configuration and tactics for agents in a multiagent competition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kangyao Huang , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Xiangyang Ji , Huaping Liu

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) provide unique advantages for optimizing neural networks in complex search spaces. This paper introduces a new web platform, NeuroEvo (neuroevo.io), that allows users to interactively design and train neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Philip Schroeder

The emergence of complex life on Earth is often attributed to the arms race that ensued from a huge number of organisms all competing for finite resources. We present an artificial intelligence research environment, inspired by the human…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Joseph Suarez , Yilun Du , Phillip Isola , Igor Mordatch

Optimizing artificial intelligence (AI) for dynamic environments remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning research. In this paper, we examine evolutionary training methods for optimizing AI to solve the game 2048, a 2D sliding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Maggie Bai , Ava Kim Cohen , Eleanor Koss , Charlie Lichtenbaum

Game economy design significantly shapes the player experience and progression speed. Modern game economies are becoming increasingly complex and can be very sensitive to even minor numerical adjustments, which may have an unexpected impact…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Florian Rupp , Kai Eckert

This paper presents an application of evolutionary search procedures to artificial neural networks. Here, we can distinguish among three kinds of evolution in artificial neural networks, i.e. the evolution of connection weights, of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-04-22 Eva Volna

Neuroevolution has recently been shown to be quite competitive in reinforcement learning (RL) settings, and is able to alleviate some of the drawbacks of gradient-based approaches. This paper will focus on applying neuroevolution using a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Tarek Faycal , Claudio Zito

In this work, we argue that the search for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) should start from a much lower level than human-level intelligence. The circumstances of intelligent behavior in nature resulted from an organism interacting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Sidney Pontes-Filho , Kristoffer Olsen , Anis Yazidi , Michael A. Riegler , Pål Halvorsen , Stefano Nichele

Multi-agents has exhibited significant intelligence in real-word simulations with Large language models (LLMs) due to the capabilities of social cognition and knowledge retrieval. However, existing research on agents equipped with effective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yajie Yu , Yue Feng

Evolution gave rise to creatures that are arguably more sophisticated than the greatest human-designed systems. This feat has inspired computer scientists since the advent of computing and led to optimization tools that can evolve complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Neuroevolution (NE) has recently proven a competitive alternative to learning by gradient descent in reinforcement learning tasks. However, the majority of NE methods and associated simulation environments differ crucially from biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Gautier Hamon , Eleni Nisioti , Clément Moulin-Frier

As games challenge traditional automated white-box test generators, the Neatest approach generates test suites consisting of neural networks that exercise the source code by playing the games. Neatest generates these neural networks using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Patric Feldmeier , Gordon Fraser

Evolutionary Computation has been successfully used to synthesise controllers for embodied agents and multi-agent systems in general. Notwithstanding this, continuous on-line adaptation by the means of evolutionary algorithms is still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Davide Nunes , Luis Antunes

From social networks to traffic routing, artificial learning agents are playing a central role in modern institutions. We must therefore understand how to leverage these systems to foster outcomes and behaviors that align with our own…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jan Balaguer , Raphael Koster , Christopher Summerfield , Andrea Tacchetti

Progress in multiagent intelligence research is fundamentally limited by the number and quality of environments available for study. In recent years, simulated games have become a dominant research platform within reinforcement learning, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Joseph Suarez , Yilun Du , Igor Mordatch , Phillip Isola