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We designed and built a game called \textit{Immersive Text Game}, which allows the player to choose a story and a character, and interact with other characters in the story in an immersive manner of dialogues. The game is based on several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Wanshui Li , Yifan Bai , Jiaxuan Lu , Kexin Yi

We provide a dataset that enables the creation of learning agents that can build knowledge graph-based world models of interactive narratives. Interactive narratives -- or text-adventure games -- are partially observable environments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl

Deceptive games are games where the reward structure or other aspects of the game are designed to lead the agent away from a globally optimal policy. While many games are already deceptive to some extent, we designed a series of games in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Damien Anderson , Matthew Stephenson , Julian Togelius , Christian Salge , John Levine , Jochen Renz

GUI agents are rapidly becoming a new interaction to software, allowing people to navigate web, desktop and mobile rather than execute them click by click. Yet ``agent'' is described with radically different degrees of autonomy, obscuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen

Interactive fiction games have emerged as an important application to improve the generalization capabilities of language-based reinforcement learning (RL) agents. Existing environments for interactive fiction games are domain-specific or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Shreyas Basavatia , Keerthiram Murugesan , Shivam Ratnakar

While vision-and-language models perform well on tasks such as visual question answering, they struggle when it comes to basic human commonsense reasoning skills. In this work, we introduce WinoGAViL: an online game of vision-and-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yonatan Bitton , Nitzan Bitton Guetta , Ron Yosef , Yuval Elovici , Mohit Bansal , Gabriel Stanovsky , Roy Schwartz

We present PORTAL, a novel framework for developing artificial intelligence agents capable of playing thousands of 3D video games through language-guided policy generation. By transforming decision-making problems into language modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhongwen Xu , Xianliang Wang , Siyi Li , Tao Yu , Liang Wang , Qiang Fu , Wei Yang

Interactive Machine Learning (IML) is an iterative learning process that tightly couples a human with a machine learner, which is widely used by researchers and practitioners to effectively solve a wide variety of real-world application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Liu Jiang , Shixia Liu , Changjian Chen

This paper presents a game master AI for single-player role-playing games. The AI is designed to deliver interactive text-based narratives and experiences typically associated with multiplayer tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Nicolai Hejlesen Jørgensen , Sarmilan Tharmabalan , Ilhan Aslan , Nicolai Brodersen Hansen , Timothy Merritt

Human intelligence has the remarkable ability to adapt to new tasks and environments quickly. Starting from a very young age, humans acquire new skills and learn how to solve new tasks either by imitating the behavior of others or by…

In this paper we introduce temporal action graph games (TAGGs), a novel graphical representation of imperfect-information extensive form games. We show that when a game involves anonymity or context-specific utility independencies, its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Albert Xin Jiang , Kevin Leyton-Brown , Avi Pfeffer

This paper presents an overview of the sixth AIBIRDS competition, held at the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This competition tasked participants with developing an intelligent agent which can play the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Matthew Stephenson , Jochen Renz , Xiaoyu Ge , Peng Zhang

Text games present opportunities for natural language understanding (NLU) methods to tackle reinforcement learning (RL) challenges. However, recent work has questioned the necessity of NLU by showing random text hashes could perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yi Gu , Shunyu Yao , Chuang Gan , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Mo Yu

In this paper, we introduce NarrativePlay, a novel system that allows users to role-play a fictional character and interact with other characters in narratives such as novels in an immersive environment. We leverage Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Runcong Zhao , Wenjia Zhang , Jiazheng Li , Lixing Zhu , Yanran Li , Yulan He , Lin Gui

The task of managing general game playing in a multi-agent system is the problem addressed in this paper. It is considered to be done by an agent. There are many reasons for constructing such an agent, called general game management agent.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Rustam Tagiew

Text-based games are a natural challenge domain for deep reinforcement learning algorithms. Their state and action spaces are combinatorially large, their reward function is sparse, and they are partially observable: the agent is informed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Vishal Jain , William Fedus , Hugo Larochelle , Doina Precup , Marc G. Bellemare

Letting AI agents interact in multi-agent applications adds a layer of complexity to the interpretability and prediction of AI outcomes, with profound implications for their trustworthy adoption in research and society. Game theory offers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Alessio Buscemi , Daniele Proverbio , Alessandro Di Stefano , The-Anh Han , German Castignani , Pietro Liò

Learning agents that are not only capable of taking tests, but also innovating is becoming a hot topic in AI. One of the most promising paths towards this vision is multi-agent learning, where agents act as the environment for each other,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Yuhang Song , Andrzej Wojcicki , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Jianyi Wang , Abi Aryan , Zhenghua Xu , Mai Xu , Zihan Ding , Lianlong Wu

Goal-directed interactive agents, which autonomously complete tasks through interactions with their environment, can assist humans in various domains of their daily lives. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) led to a surge of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Mareike Hartmann , Alexander Koller

Imaginative play is an area of creativity that could allow robots to engage with the world around them in a much more personified way. Imaginary play can be seen as taking real objects and locations and using them as imaginary objects and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zexin Chen , Eric Zhou , Kenneth Eaton , Xiangyu Peng , Mark Riedl