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Progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) faces significant bottlenecks, particularly in rigorously evaluating complex interactive systems and acquiring the vast interaction data needed for training adaptive agents. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Krisztian Balog , ChengXiang Zhai

Inspired by cognitive theories, we introduce AnyHome, a framework that translates any text into well-structured and textured indoor scenes at a house-scale. By prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) with designed templates, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rao Fu , Zehao Wen , Zichen Liu , Srinath Sridhar

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming central to natural language processing education, yet materials showing their mechanics are sparse. We present AnimatedLLM, an interactive web application that provides step-by-step visualizations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zdeněk Kasner , Ondřej Dušek

Recommender systems play a central role in numerous real-life applications, yet evaluating their performance remains a significant challenge due to the gap between offline metrics and online behaviors. Given the scarcity and limits (e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Nicolas Bougie , Narimasa Watanabe

In this paper, we investigate the use of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for generating virtual activities, leveraging the integration of vision-language modalities to enable the interpretation of virtual environments. Our approach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Changyang Li , Qingan Yan , Minyoung Kim , Zhan Li , Yi Xu , Lap-Fai Yu

Simulating how team members collaborate within complex environments using Agentic AI is a promising approach to explore hypotheses grounded in social science theories and study team behaviors. We introduce VirtLab, a user-friendly,…

Multi-agent social interaction has clearly benefited from Large Language Models. However, current simulation systems still face challenges such as difficulties in scaling to diverse scenarios and poor reusability due to a lack of modular…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-09 Gang Li , Jie Lin , Yining Tang , Ziteng Wang , Yirui Huang , Junyu Zhang , Shuang Luo , Chao Wu , Yike Guo

Human activity recognition using smart home sensors is one of the bases of ubiquitous computing in smart environments and a topic undergoing intense research in the field of ambient assisted living. The increasingly large amount of data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Deepika Singh , Erinc Merdivan , Ismini Psychoula , Johannes Kropf , Sten Hanke , Matthieu Geist , Andreas Holzinger

We describe a visual programming language for defining behaviors manifested by reified actors in a 2D virtual world that can be compiled into programs comprised of sequences of combinators that are themselves reified as actors. This makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Lance R. Williams

This project proposes a methodology for the automatic generation of action models from video game dynamics descriptions, as well as its integration with a planning agent for the execution and monitoring of the plans. Planners use these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Ignacio Vellido , Carlos Núñez-Molina , Vladislav Nikolov , Juan Fdez-Olivares

The believable simulation of multi-user behavior is crucial for understanding complex social systems. Recently, large language models (LLMs)-based AI agents have made significant progress, enabling them to achieve human-like intelligence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yijun Liu , Wu Liu , Xiaoyan Gu , Yong Rui , Xiaodong He , Yongdong Zhang

The goal of this paper is to simulate the voters behaviour given a voting method. Our approach uses a multi-agent simulation in order to model a voting process through many iterations, so that the voters can vote by taking into account the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Albin Soutif , Carole Adam , Sylvain Bouveret

Task-oriented dialogue is difficult in part because it involves understanding user intent, collecting information from the user, executing API calls, and generating helpful and fluent responses. However, for complex tasks one must also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Stefania Raimondo , Christopher Pal , Xiaotian Liu , David Vazquez , Hector Palacios

Interactive behavior modeling of multiple agents is an essential challenge in simulation, especially in scenarios when agents need to avoid collisions and cooperate at the same time. Humans can interact with others without explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Lingfeng Sun , Pin-Yun Hung , Changhao Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Zhuo Xu

Humans quickly learn new concepts from a small number of examples. Replicating this capacity with Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has proven to be challenging. When it comes to learning subjective tasks-where there is an evident…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nikolaos Kondylidis , Andrea Rafanelli , Ilaria Tiddi , Annette ten Teije , Frank van Harmelen

Generalist robot learning remains constrained by data: large-scale, diverse, and high-quality interaction data are expensive to collect in the real world. While simulation has become a promising way for scaling up data collection, the…

The evolution of smart home technologies, particularly agentic ones such as conversational agents, robots, and virtual avatars, is reshaping our understanding of home and domestic life. This shift highlights the complexities of modern…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Fatemeh Alizadeh , Dave Randall , Peter Tolmie , Minha Lee , Yuhui Xu , Sarah Mennicken , Mikołaj P. Woźniak , Dennis Paul , Dominik Pins

Atomistic simulations using accurate energy functions can provide molecular-level insight into functional motions of molecules in the gas- and in the condensed phase. Together with recently developed and currently pursued efforts in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 M. Meuwly

Virtual Assistant technology is rapidly proliferating to improve productivity in a variety of tasks. While several virtual assistants for everyday tasks are well-known (e.g., Siri, Cortana, Alexa), assistants for specialty tasks such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zachary Eberhart , Aakash Bansal , Collin McMillan

Neural nets are powerful function approximators, but the behavior of a given neural net, once trained, cannot be easily modified. We wish, however, for people to be able to influence neural agents' actions despite the agents never training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mycal Tucker , William Kuhl , Khizer Shahid , Seth Karten , Katia Sycara , Julie Shah