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As intelligent systems and multi-agent coordination become increasingly central to real-world applications, there is a growing need for simulation tools that are both scalable and accessible. Existing high-fidelity simulators, while…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Rohan Patil , Jai Malegaonkar , Xiao Jiang , Andre Dion , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Henrik I. Christensen

As robots become more prevalent, the complexity of robot-robot, robot-human, and robot-environment interactions increases. In these interactions, a robot needs to consider not only the effects of its own actions, but also the effects of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Karan Muvvala , Andrew M. Wells , Morteza Lahijanian , Lydia E. Kavraki , Moshe Y. Vardi

Differentiable simulators represent an environment's dynamics as a differentiable function. Within robotics and autonomous driving, this property is used in Analytic Policy Gradients (APG), which relies on backpropagating through the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Asen Nachkov , Danda Pani Paudel , Jan-Nico Zaech , Davide Scaramuzza , Luc Van Gool

Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning have led to agents that perform well across a variety of sensory-motor domains. In this work, we study the setting in which an agent must learn to generate programs for diverse scenes conditioned on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Aishwarya Agrawal , Mateusz Malinowski , Felix Hill , Ali Eslami , Oriol Vinyals , Tejas Kulkarni

Due to the complex and changing interactions in dynamic scenarios, motion forecasting is a challenging problem in autonomous driving. Most existing works exploit static road graphs to characterize scenarios and are limited in modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Xing Gao , Xiaogang Jia , Yikang Li , Hongkai Xiong

Assisted by neural networks, reinforcement learning agents have been able to solve increasingly complex tasks over the last years. The simulation environment in which the agents interact is an essential component in any reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Aqeel Labash , Ardi Tampuu , Tambet Matiisen , Jaan Aru , Raul Vicente

Just as computational simulations of atoms, molecules and cells have shaped the way we study the sciences, true-to-life simulations of human-like agents can be valuable tools for studying human behavior. We propose Humanoid Agents, a system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zhilin Wang , Yu Ying Chiu , Yu Cheung Chiu

Existing Large Language Models (LLM) can invoke a variety of tools and APIs to complete complex tasks. The computer, as the most powerful and universal tool, could potentially be controlled directly by a trained LLM agent. Powered by the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Runliang Niu , Jindong Li , Shiqi Wang , Yali Fu , Xiyu Hu , Xueyuan Leng , He Kong , Yi Chang , Qi Wang

Simulating soft robots in cluttered environments remains an open problem due to the challenge of capturing complex dynamics and interactions with the environment. Furthermore, fast simulation is desired for quickly exploring robot behaviors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Rianna Jitosho , Nathaniel Agharese , Allison Okamura , Zac Manchester

Autonomous artificial agents must be able to learn behaviors in complex environments without humans to design tasks and rewards. Designing these functions for each environment is not feasible, thus, motivating the development of intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Alana Santana , Paula P. Costa , Esther L. Colombini

A major bottleneck for developing general reinforcement learning agents is determining rewards that will yield desirable behaviors under various circumstances. We introduce a general mechanism for automatically specifying meaningful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Ashley D. Edwards , Charles L. Isbell

We are increasingly surrounded by artificially intelligent technology that takes decisions and executes actions on our behalf. This creates a pressing need for general means to communicate with, instruct and guide artificial agents, with…

We present a game of interacting agents which mimics the complex dynamics found in many natural and social systems. These agents modify their strategies periodically, depending on their performances using genetic crossover mechanisms,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marko Sysi-Aho , Anirban Chakraborti , Kimmo Kaski

The Multi Agent Based programming, modeling and simulation environment of NetLogo has been used extensively during the last fifteen years for educational among other purposes. The learning subject, upon interacting with the Users Interface…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Aristotelis Gkiolmas , Anthimos Chalkidis , Maria Papaconstantinou , Zafar Iqbal , Constantine Skordoulis

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

The ability to act in multiple environments and transfer previous knowledge to new situations can be considered a critical aspect of any intelligent agent. Towards this goal, we define a novel method of multitask and transfer learning that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Emilio Parisotto , Jimmy Lei Ba , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

For over a decade now, robotics and the use of artificial agents have become a common thing.Testing the performance of new path finding or search space optimization algorithms has also become a challenge as they require simulation or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Jerin Paul Selvan , Pravin S. Game

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu

We propose an approach to learning agents for active robotic mapping, where the goal is to map the environment as quickly as possible. The agent learns to map efficiently in simulated environments by receiving rewards corresponding to how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Shane Barratt

Computer-based modelling and simulation have become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different domains, such as physics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, economics, engineering and social science. A complex system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xing Su , Yan Kong , Weihua Li