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We study the problem of learning goal-conditioned policies in Minecraft, a popular, widely accessible yet challenging open-ended environment for developing human-level multi-task agents. We first identify two main challenges of learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Shaofei Cai , Zihao Wang , Xiaojian Ma , Anji Liu , Yitao Liang

Spatial Planning is a crucial part in the field of spatial intelligence, which requires the understanding and planning about object arrangements in space perspective. AI agents with the spatial planning ability can better adapt to various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ziming Wei , Bingqian Lin , Zijian Jiao , Yunshuang Nie , Liang Ma , Yuecheng Liu , Yuzheng Zhuang , Xiaodan Liang

In this document we describe a rationale for a research program aimed at building an open "assistant" in the game Minecraft, in order to make progress on the problems of natural language understanding and learning from dialogue.

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

Enhancing AI systems with efficient communication skills for effective human assistance necessitates proactive initiatives from the system side to discern specific circumstances and interact aptly. This research focuses on a collective…

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Recently, procedural content generation has exhibited considerable advancements in the domain of 2D game level generation such as Super Mario Bros. and Sokoban through large language models (LLMs). To further validate the capabilities of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Shiying Hu , Zengrong Huang , Chengpeng Hu , Jialin Liu

Autoregressive video diffusion models have proved effective for world modeling and interactive scene generation, with Minecraft gameplay as a representative application. To faithfully simulate play, a model must generate natural content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Junchao Huang , Xinting Hu , Boyao Han , Shaoshuai Shi , Zhuotao Tian , Tianyu He , Li Jiang

Procedurally generating cohesive and interesting game environments is challenging and time-consuming. In order for the relationships between the game elements to be natural, common-sense has to be encoded into arrangement of the elements.…

Game AI competitions are important to foster research and development on Game AI and AI in general. These competitions supply different challenging problems that can be translated into other contexts, virtual or real. They provide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Ana Salta , Rui Prada , Francisco S. Melo

The attempt to utilize machine learning in PCG has been made in the past. In this survey paper, we investigate how generative artificial intelligence (AI), which saw a significant increase in interest in the mid-2010s, is being used for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xinyu Mao , Wanli Yu , Kazunori D Yamada , Michael R. Zielewski

Developing general-purpose embodied agents is a core challenge in AI. Minecraft provides rich complexity and internet-scale data, but its slow speed and engineering overhead make it unsuitable for rapid prototyping. Crafter offers a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Junyeong Park , Hyeonseo Cho , Sungjin Ahn

Constructing AI models that respond to text instructions is challenging, especially for sequential decision-making tasks. This work introduces a methodology, inspired by unCLIP, for instruction-tuning generative models of behavior without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shalev Lifshitz , Keiran Paster , Harris Chan , Jimmy Ba , Sheila McIlraith

This paper introduces EvoCraft, a framework for Minecraft designed to study open-ended algorithms. We introduce an API that provides an open-source Python interface for communicating with Minecraft to place and track blocks. In contrast to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Djordje Grbic , Rasmus Berg Palm , Elias Najarro , Claire Glanois , Sebastian Risi

The procedural generation of levels and content in video games is a challenging AI problem. Often such generation relies on an intelligent way of evaluating the content being generated so that constraints are satisfied and/or objectives…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Ahmed Khalifa , Michael Cerny Green , Gabriella Barros , Julian Togelius

We introduce the General Video Game Rule Generation problem, and the eponymous software framework which will be used in a new track of the General Video Game AI (GVGAI) competition. The problem is, given a game level as input, to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ahmed Khalifa , Michael Cerny Green , Diego Perez-Liebana , Julian Togelius

Machine learning for procedural content generation has recently become an active area of research. Levels vary in both form and function and are mostly unrelated to each other across games. This has made it difficult to assemble suitably…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Philip Bontrager , Julian Togelius

The two fields of urban planning and artificial intelligence (AI) arose and developed separately. However, there is now cross-pollination and increasing interest in both fields to benefit from the advances of the other. In the present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dongjie Wang , Chang-Tien Lu , Xinyue Ye , Tan Yigitcanlar , Yanjie Fu

In this paper, we introduce a new set of reinforcement learning (RL) tasks in Minecraft (a flexible 3D world). We then use these tasks to systematically compare and contrast existing deep reinforcement learning (DRL) architectures with our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Junhyuk Oh , Valliappa Chockalingam , Satinder Singh , Honglak Lee

In this work, we present two novel contributions toward improving research in human-machine teaming (HMT): 1) a Minecraft testbed to accelerate testing and deployment of collaborative AI agents and 2) a tool to allow users to revisit and…

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