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Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

The process of playtesting a game is subjective, expensive and incomplete. In this paper, we present a playtesting approach that explores the game space with automated agents and collects data to answer questions posed by the designers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Fernando de Mesentier Silva , Igor Borovikov , John Kolen , Navid Aghdaie , Kazi Zaman

As large language models (LLMs) continue to improve in reasoning and decision-making, there is a growing need for realistic and interactive environments where their abilities can be rigorously evaluated. We present VirtualEnv, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kabir Swain , Sijie Han , Ayush Raina , Jin Zhang , Shuang Li , Michael Stopa , Antonio Torralba

In this study, our goal is to create interactive avatar agents that can autonomously plan and animate nuanced facial movements realistically, from both visual and behavioral perspectives. Given high-level inputs about the environment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duomin Wang , Bin Dai , Yu Deng , Baoyuan Wang

This paper describes our research on AI agents embodied in visual, virtual or physical forms, enabling them to interact with both users and their environments. These agents, which include virtual avatars, wearable devices, and robots, are…

Progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) faces significant bottlenecks, particularly in rigorously evaluating complex interactive systems and acquiring the vast interaction data needed for training adaptive agents. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Krisztian Balog , ChengXiang Zhai

Driving simulators play a large role in developing and testing new intelligent vehicle systems. The visual fidelity of the simulation is critical for building vision-based algorithms and conducting human driver experiments. Low visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Ekim Yurtsever , Dongfang Yang , Ibrahim Mert Koc , Keith A. Redmill

The development of increasingly realistic experimental stimuli and task environments is important for understanding behavior outside the laboratory. We report a process for generating 3D human model stimuli that combines commonly used…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-17 Jean M. Vettel , Justin Kantner , Matthew Jaswa , Michael Miller

Training agents to act competently in complex 3D environments from high-dimensional visual information is challenging. Reinforcement learning is conventionally used to train such agents, but requires a carefully designed reward function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Adam Jelley , Yuhan Cao , Dave Bignell , Amos Storkey , Sam Devlin , Tabish Rashid

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

Classic evaluation methods of believable agents are time-consuming because they involve many human to judge agents. They are well suited to validate work on new believable behaviours models. However, during the implementation, numerous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-09-03 Fabien Tencé , Cédric Buche

Interactive behavior modeling of multiple agents is an essential challenge in simulation, especially in scenarios when agents need to avoid collisions and cooperate at the same time. Humans can interact with others without explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Lingfeng Sun , Pin-Yun Hung , Changhao Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Zhuo Xu

Due to decelerating gains in single-core CPU performance, computationally expensive simulations are increasingly executed on highly parallel hardware platforms. Agent-based simulations, where simulated entities act with a certain degree of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Jiajian Xiao , Philipp Andelfinger , David Eckhoff , Wentong Cai , Alois Knoll

The Animal-AI Environment is a unique game-based research platform designed to facilitate collaboration between the artificial intelligence and comparative cognition research communities. In this paper, we present the latest version of the…

This paper explores use of multiple large language model (LLM) agents to simulate complex, dynamic characters in dramatic scenarios. We introduce a drama machine framework that coordinates interactions between LLM agents playing different…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Liam Magee , Vanicka Arora , Gus Gollings , Norma Lam-Saw

Simulation is an appealing option for validating the safety of autonomous vehicles. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) has recently been shown to learn representative human driver models. These human driver models were learned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Raunak P. Bhattacharyya , Derek J. Phillips , Blake Wulfe , Jeremy Morton , Alex Kuefler , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Developing agents capable of fluid gameplay in first/third-person games without API access remains a critical challenge in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Recent efforts leverage Vision Language Models (VLMs) as direct controllers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Wenxuan Lu , Jiangyang He , Zhanqiu Zhang , Yiwen Guo , Tianning Zang

Game-theoretic dynamics between AI agents could differ from traditional human-human interactions in various ways. One such difference is that it may be possible to accurately simulate an AI agent, for example because its source code is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Vojtech Kovarik , Caspar Oesterheld , Vincent Conitzer

Movement is how people interact with and affect their environment. For realistic character animation, it is necessary to synthesize such interactions between virtual characters and their surroundings. Despite recent progress in character…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Mohamed Hassan , Yunrong Guo , Tingwu Wang , Michael Black , Sanja Fidler , Xue Bin Peng

Individual traffic significantly contributes to climate change and environmental degradation. Therefore, innovation in sustainable mobility is gaining importance as it helps to reduce environmental pollution. However, effects of new ideas…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Johannes Nguyen , Simon T. Powers , Neil Urquhart , Thomas Farrenkopf , Michael Guckert