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In this paper, we present a new methodology that employs tester agents to automate video game testing. We introduce two types of agents -synthetic and human-like- and two distinct approaches to create them. Our agents are derived from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Sinan Ariyurek , Aysu Betin-Can , Elif Surer

Automated adversary emulation is becoming an indispensable tool of network security operators in testing and evaluating their cyber defenses. At the same time, it has exposed how quickly adversaries can propagate through the network. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ron Alford , Andy Applebaum

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are capable of generating convincing imitations of elements from a training set, but the distribution of elements in the training set affects to difficulty of properly training the GAN and the quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Kirby Steckel , Jacob Schrum

Deep reinforcement learning has learned to play many games well, but failed on others. To better characterize the modes and reasons of failure of deep reinforcement learners, we test the widely used Asynchronous Actor-Critic (A2C) algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Philip Bontrager , Ahmed Khalifa , Damien Anderson , Matthew Stephenson , Christoph Salge , Julian Togelius

As intelligence increases, so does its shadow. AI deception, in which systems induce false beliefs to secure self-beneficial outcomes, has evolved from a speculative concern to an empirically demonstrated risk across language models, AI…

In this study, we employ Generative Adversarial Networks as an oversampling method to generate artificial data to assist with the classification of credit card fraudulent transactions. GANs is a generative model based on the idea of game…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Hung Ba

With the fast progress of generative AI in recent years, more games are integrating generated content, raising questions regarding how players perceive and respond to this content. To investigate, we ran a mixed-method survey on the games…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mahsa Bazzaz , Seth Cooper

As Large Language Models (LLMs) transition into autonomous agentic roles, the risk of deception-defined behaviorally as the systematic provision of false information to satisfy external incentives-poses a significant challenge to AI safety.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Arash Marioriyad , Ali Nouri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

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

In the future, powerful AI systems may be deployed in high-stakes settings, where a single failure could be catastrophic. One technique for improving AI safety in high-stakes settings is adversarial training, which uses an adversary to…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are quickly becoming a ubiquitous approach to procedurally generating video game levels. While GAN generated levels are stylistically similar to human-authored examples, human designers often want to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Matthew C. Fontaine , Ruilin Liu , Ahmed Khalifa , Jignesh Modi , Julian Togelius , Amy K. Hoover , Stefanos Nikolaidis

The rapid pace of recent research in AI has been driven in part by the presence of fast and challenging simulation environments. These environments often take the form of games; with tasks ranging from simple board games, to competitive…

Detecting money laundering in gambling is becoming increasingly challenging for the gambling industry as consumers migrate to online channels. Whilst increasingly stringent regulations have been applied over the years to prevent money…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Charitos Charitou , Simo Dragicevic , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Cognitive vulnerabilities shape human decision-making and arise primarily from two sources: (1) cognitive capabilities, which include disparities in knowledge, education, expertise, or access to information, and (2) cognitive biases, such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as interactive agents, open-ended human-AI interactions can involve deceptive behaviors with serious real-world consequences, yet existing evaluations remain largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yichen Wu , Qianqian Gao , Xudong Pan , Geng Hong , Min Yang

In this paper, we consider an adversarial scenario where one agent seeks to achieve an objective and its adversary seeks to learn the agent's intentions and prevent the agent from achieving its objective. The agent has an incentive to try…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Melkior Ornik , Ufuk Topcu

Flappy Bird, which has a very high popularity, has been trained in many algorithms. Some of these studies were trained from raw pixel values of game and some from specific attributes. In this study, the model was trained with raw game…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Elit Cenk Alp , Mehmet Serdar Guzel

Reinforcement learning is one of the most popular approaches for automated game playing. This method allows an agent to estimate the expected utility of its state in order to make optimal actions in an unknown environment. We seek to apply…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Tai Vu , Leon Tran

Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning (PCGRL) offers a method for training controllable level designer agents without the need for human datasets, using metrics that serve as proxies for level quality as rewards. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sam Earle , Zehua Jiang , Eugene Vinitsky , Julian Togelius

Performing tasks in a physical environment is a crucial yet challenging problem for AI systems operating in the real world. Physics simulation-based tasks are often employed to facilitate research that addresses this challenge. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Chathura Gamage , Vimukthini Pinto , Matthew Stephenson , Jochen Renz