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Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is an area of research that focuses on developing methods to generate machine learning models automatically. The idea of being able to build machine learning models with very little human intervention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hernan Ceferino Vazquez

In natural language, referencing objects at different levels of specificity is a fundamental pragmatic mechanism for efficient communication in context. We develop a novel communication game, the hierarchical reference game, to study the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Xenia Ohmer , Marko Duda , Elia Bruni

As full AI-based automation remains out of reach in most real-world applications, the focus has instead shifted to leveraging the strengths of both human and AI agents, creating effective collaborative systems. The rapid advances in this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Steffen Holter , Mennatallah El-Assady

In this article, we review recent Deep Learning advances in the context of how they have been applied to play different types of video games such as first-person shooters, arcade games, and real-time strategy games. We analyze the unique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Niels Justesen , Philip Bontrager , Julian Togelius , Sebastian Risi

Recent technological advances, especially in the field of machine learning, provide astonishing progress on the road towards artificial general intelligence. However, tasks in current real-world business applications cannot yet be solved by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Dominik Dellermann , Adrian Calma , Nikolaus Lipusch , Thorsten Weber , Sascha Weigel , Philipp Ebel

There is a growing interest in researching game design processes, artifacts and culture through active game design. Tools and processes to support these attempts are limited, especially in terms of a) capturing smaller design decisions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Prabhav Bhatnagar , Jianheng He , Shamit Ahmed , Andrés Lucero , Perttu Hämäläinen

Games can be a powerful tool for learning about statistical methodology. Effective game design involves a fine balance between caricature and realism, to simultaneously illustrate salient concepts in a controlled setting and serve as a…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-05-15 Robert B. Gramacy

Collectible card games are challenging, widely played games that have received increasing attention from the AI research community in recent years. Despite important breakthroughs, the field still poses many unresolved challenges. This work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ronaldo e Silva Vieira , Anderson Rocha Tavares , Luiz Chaimowicz

There are few digital tools to help designers create game mechanics. A general language to express game mechanics is necessary for rapid game design iteration. The first iteration of a mechanics-focused language, together with its…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Rokas Volkovas , Michael Fairbank , John Woodward , Simon Lucas

Recent developments in artificial intelligence and automation support a new drug design paradigm: autonomous drug design. Under this paradigm, generative models can provide suggestions on thousands of molecules with specific properties, and…

The ability to inferring latent psychological traits from human behavior is key to developing personalized human-interacting machine learning systems. Approaches to infer such traits range from surveys to manually-constructed experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Fan Yang , Liu Leqi , Yifan Wu , Zachary C. Lipton , Pradeep Ravikumar , William W. Cohen , Tom Mitchell

Games are often designed to shape player behavior in a desired way; however, it can be unclear how design decisions affect the space of behaviors in a game. Designers usually explore this space through human playtesting, which can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Alexander Zook , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

Recent advances in Generative Adversarial Networks GANs applications continue to attract the attention of researchers in different fields. In such a framework, two neural networks compete adversely to generate new visual contents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Mohammad Lataifeh , Xavier A Carrascoa , Ashraf M Elnagara , Naveed Ahmeda , Imran Junejo

Let's Plays of video games represent a relatively unexplored area for experimental AI in games. In this short paper, we discuss an approach to generate automated commentary for Let's Play videos, drawing on convolutional deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shukan Shah , Matthew Guzdial , Mark O. Riedl

The interactive game theoretical approach to the description of perception processes is proposed. The subject is treated formally in terms of a new class of the verbalizable interactive games which are called the perception games. An…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Juriev

Artificial Intelligence holds significant potential to enhance human creativity. However, achieving this vision requires a clearer understanding of how such enhancement can be effectively realized. Drawing on a relational and distributed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Andrea Gaggioli , Sabrina Bartolotta , Andrea Ubaldi , Katusha Gerardini , Eleonora Diletta Sarcinella , Alice Chirico

Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning (PCGML) refers to a group of methods for creating game content (e.g. platformer levels, game maps, etc.) using machine learning models. PCGML approaches rely on black box models, which can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Faraz Khadivpour , Matthew Guzdial

In conceptual modeling (CM), humans apply abstraction to represent excerpts of reality for means of understanding and communication, and processing by machines. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied to vast amounts of data to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Dominik Bork , Syed Juned Ali , Ben Roelens

Do AI systems truly understand human concepts or merely mimic surface patterns? We investigate this through chess, where human creativity meets precise strategic concepts. Analyzing a 270M-parameter transformer that achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Semyon Lomasov , Judah Goldfeder , Mehmet Hamza Erol , Matthew So , Yao Yan , Addison Howard , Nathan Kutz , Ravid Shwartz Ziv

In this invited contribution, we propose a comprehensive introduction to game theory applied in computer aided synthesis. In this context, we give some classical results on two-player zero-sum games and then on multi-player non zero-sum…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Véronique Bruyère