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Reward design plays a pivotal role in the training of game AIs, requiring substantial domain-specific knowledge and human effort. In recent years, several studies have explored reward generation for training game agents and controlling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 In-Chang Baek , Sung-Hyun Kim , Sam Earle , Zehua Jiang , Jin-Ha Noh , Julian Togelius , Kyung-Joong Kim

Human computation games (HCGs) are a crowdsourcing approach to solving computationally-intractable tasks using games. In this paper, we describe the need for generalizable HCG design knowledge that accommodates the needs of both players and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kristin Siu , Alexander Zook , Mark O. Riedl

With more and more digital media, especially in the field of virtual reality where detailed and convincing scenes are much required, procedural scene generation is a big helping tool for artists. A problem is that defining scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Drazen Lucanin

Video world models have shown immense promise for interactive simulation and entertainment, but current systems still struggle with two important aspects of interactivity: user control over the environment for reproducible, editable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ryan Po , David Junhao Zhang , Amir Hertz , Gordon Wetzstein , Neal Wadhwa , Nataniel Ruiz

An important challenge in reinforcement learning is training agents that can solve a wide variety of tasks. If tasks depend on each other (e.g. needing to learn to walk before learning to run), curriculum learning can speed up learning by…

In this paper, we present a method for automated persona-driven video game tutorial level generation. Tutorial levels are scenarios in which the player can explore and discover different rules and game mechanics. Procedural personas can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Michael Cerny Green , Ahmed Khalifa , M Charity , Julian Togelius

Human-aligned AI is a critical component of co-creativity, as it enables models to accurately interpret human intent and generate controllable outputs that align with design goals in collaborative content creation. This direction is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 In-Chang Baek , Seoyoung Lee , Sung-Hyun Kim , Geumhwan Hwang , KyungJoong Kim

In recent years, Procedural Level Generation via Machine Learning (PLGML) techniques have been applied to generate game levels with machine learning. These approaches rely on human-annotated representations of game levels. Creating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Mrunal Jadhav , Matthew Guzdial

Machine learning has been a popular tool in many different fields, including procedural content generation. However, procedural content generation via machine learning (PCGML) approaches can struggle with controllability and coherence. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Kynan Sorochan , Jerry Chen , Yakun Yu , Matthew Guzdial

Controllable Text Generation (CTG) is emerging area in the field of natural language generation (NLG). It is regarded as crucial for the development of advanced text generation technologies that better meet the specific constraints in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Hanqing Zhang , Haolin Song , Shaoyu Li , Ming Zhou , Dawei Song

Tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) and procedural content generators can both be understood as systems of rules for producing content. In this paper, we argue that TTRPG design can usefully be viewed as procedural content generator design.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Matthew Guzdial , Devi Acharya , Max Kreminski , Michael Cook , Mirjam Eladhari , Antonios Liapis , Anne Sullivan

In recent years, with the development of deep learning, text generation technology has undergone great changes and provided many kinds of services for human beings, such as restaurant reservation and daily communication. The automatically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Bin Guo , Hao Wang , Yasan Ding , Wei Wu , Shaoyang Hao , Yueqi Sun , Zhiwen Yu

Compile-time garbage collection (CTGC) is still a very uncommon feature within compilers. In previous work we have developed a compile-time structure reuse system for Mercury, a logic programming language. This system indicates which…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nancy Mazur , Peter Ross , Gerda Janssens , Maurice Bruynooghe

Online games with modifiable virtual environments (MVEs) have become highly popular over the past decade. Among them, Minecraft -- supporting hundreds of millions of users -- is the best-selling game of all time, and is increasingly offered…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jesse Donkervliet , Javier Ron , Junyan Li , Tiberiu Iancu , Cristina L. Abad , Alexandru Iosup

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), while serving as a viable complement to large language models (LLMs), often overlooks the crucial aspect of text chunking within its pipeline. This paper initially introduces a dual-metric evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jihao Zhao , Zhiyuan Ji , Zhaoxin Fan , Hanyu Wang , Simin Niu , Bo Tang , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) serve as a powerful framework for modeling complex systems with uncertainty and extracting valuable insights from data. However, users face challenges when applying PGMs to their problems in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiantong Jiang , Zeyi Wen , Peiyu Yang , Atif Mansoor , Ajmal Mian

This paper introduces the unsupervised learning problem of playable video generation (PVG). In PVG, we aim at allowing a user to control the generated video by selecting a discrete action at every time step as when playing a video game. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Sergey Tulyakov , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Elisa Ricci

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enable compelling story generation, but connecting narrative text to playable visual environments remains an open challenge in procedural content generation (PCG). We present a lightweight…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yi-Chun Chen , Arnav Jhala

We present a novel approach for the procedural construction of multi-step contact-rich manipulation tasks in robotics. Our generator takes as input user-defined sets of atomic actions, objects, and spatial predicates and outputs solvable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Michal Vavrecka , Radoslav Skoviera , Gabriela Sejnova , Karla Stepanova

We introduce ProcFunc, a library for Blender-based procedural 3D generation in Python. ProcFunc provides a library of easy-to-use Python functions, which streamline creating, combining, analyzing, and executing procedural generation code.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Alexander Raistrick , Karhan Kayan , Jack Nugent , David Yan , Lingjie Mei , Meenal Parakh , Hongyu Wen , Dylan Li , Yiming Zuo , Erich Liang , Jia Deng