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Autonomous driving systems have witnessed a significant development during the past years thanks to the advance in machine learning-enabled sensing and decision-making algorithms. One critical challenge for their massive deployment in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Wenhao Ding , Chejian Xu , Mansur Arief , Haohong Lin , Bo Li , Ding Zhao

The term Procedural Content Generation (PCG) refers to the (semi-)automatic generation of game content by algorithmic means, and its methods are becoming increasingly popular in game-oriented research and industry. A special class of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Vanessa Volz , Boris Naujoks , Pascal Kerschke , Tea Tusar

Synthetic 3D scenes are essential for developing Physical AI and generative models. Existing procedural generation methods often have low output throughput, creating a significant bottleneck in scaling up dataset creation. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jinghuan Shang , Harsh Patel , Ran Gong , Karl Schmeckpeper

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has advanced from text-to-image generation to text-to-video and multimodal video synthesis. However, generating playable games presents significant challenges due to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Mingyu Yang , Junyou Li , Zhongbin Fang , Sheng Chen , Yangbin Yu , Qiang Fu , Wei Yang , Deheng Ye

We present a pilot study on crea.blender, a novel co-creative game designed for large-scale, systematic assessment of distinct constructs of human creativity. Co-creative systems are systems in which humans and computers (often with Machine…

Efficient authoring of vast virtual environments hinges on algorithms that are able to automatically generate content while also being controllable. We propose a method to automatically generate furniture layouts for indoor environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Paul Henderson , Kartic Subr , Vittorio Ferrari

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown impressive results in a variety of domains, learning directly from high-dimensional sensory streams. However, when neural networks are trained in a fixed environment, such as a single level in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Niels Justesen , Ruben Rodriguez Torrado , Philip Bontrager , Ahmed Khalifa , Julian Togelius , Sebastian Risi

Recent successes of game-theoretic formulations in ML have caused a resurgence of research interest in differentiable games. Overwhelmingly, that research focuses on methods and upper bounds on their speed of convergence. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Adam Ibrahim , Waïss Azizian , Gauthier Gidel , Ioannis Mitliagkas

This paper focuses on procedurally generating rules and communicating them to players to adjust the difficulty. This is part of a larger project to collect and adapt games in educational games for young children using a digital puzzle game…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Thomas Volden , Djordje Grbic , Paolo Burelli

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown im-pressive results for image generation. However, GANs facechallenges in generating contents with certain types of con-straints, such as game levels. Specifically, it is difficult…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Ruben Rodriguez Torrado , Ahmed Khalifa , Michael Cerny Green , Niels Justesen , Sebastian Risi , Julian Togelius

Instances generation is crucial for linear programming algorithms, which is necessary either to find the optimal pivot rules by training learning method or to evaluate and verify corresponding algorithms. This study proposes a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Anqi Li , Congying Han , Tiande Guo

Automated game design is the problem of automatically producing games through computational processes. Traditionally, these methods have relied on the authoring of search spaces by a designer, defining the space of all possible games for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Matthew Guzdial , Mark Riedl

Learning-based methods for training embodied agents typically require a large number of high-quality scenes that contain realistic layouts and support meaningful interactions. However, current simulators for Embodied AI (EAI) challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Yizhou Zhao , Kaixiang Lin , Zhiwei Jia , Qiaozi Gao , Govind Thattai , Jesse Thomason , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Many of the core disciplines of artificial intelligence have sets of standard benchmark problems well known and widely used by the community when developing new algorithms. Constraint programming and automated planning are examples of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Özgür Akgün , Nguyen Dang , Joan Espasa , Ian Miguel , András Z. Salamon , Christopher Stone

Modern video games are becoming richer and more complex in terms of game mechanics. This complexity allows for the emergence of a wide variety of ways to play the game across the players. From the point of view of the game designer, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Pierre Le Pelletier de Woillemont , Rémi Labory , Vincent Corruble

We present Lode Encoder, a gamified mixed-initiative level creation system for the classic platform-puzzle game Lode Runner. The system is built around several autoencoders which are trained on sets of Lode Runner levels. When fed with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Debosmita Bhaumik , Ahmed Khalifa , Julian Togelius

Emergency training and planning provide structured curricula, rule-based action items, and interdisciplinary collaborative entities to imitate and teach real-life tasks. This rule-based structure enables the curricula to be transferred into…

Strategic classification studies the problem where self-interested individuals or agents manipulate their response to obtain favorable decision outcomes made by classifiers, typically turning to dishonest actions when they are less costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Ziyuan Huang , Lina Alkarmi , Mingyan Liu

In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided scene generation. One open challenge in scene generation is the difficulty of the generation of small objects and detailed local texture, which has been widely observed in global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Hao Tang , Dan Xu , Yan Yan , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

We target a 3D generative model for general natural scenes that are typically unique and intricate. Lacking the necessary volumes of training data, along with the difficulties of having ad hoc designs in presence of varying scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Weiyu Li , Xuelin Chen , Jue Wang , Baoquan Chen