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Recent developments in 3D generative AI enable users to create bespoke 3D models from text or image prompts. However, these approaches provide limited control over spatial structure, making them ill suited for tasks requiring precise…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Faraz Faruqi , Demircan Tas , Arthur Caetano , Niccolò Meniconi , Oğuz Arslan , Misha Sra , Ruofei Du , Stefanie Mueller , Mustafa Doga Dogan

We present a reduction of Milestoning (ReM) algorithm to analyze the high-dimensional Milestoning kinetic network. The algorithm reduces the Milestoning network to low dimensions but preserves essential kinetic information, such as local…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Ru Wang , Xiaojun Ji , Hao Wang , Wenjian Liu

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great ability in generating executable code from natural language, opening the possibility of automatically constructing environments for AI agents. Recent work on Code World Models (CWMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Tyrone Serapio , Arjun Prakash , Haoyang Xu , Kevin Wang , Amy Greenwald

We present Magic123, a two-stage coarse-to-fine approach for high-quality, textured 3D meshes generation from a single unposed image in the wild using both2D and 3D priors. In the first stage, we optimize a neural radiance field to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Guocheng Qian , Jinjie Mai , Abdullah Hamdi , Jian Ren , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Bing Li , Hsin-Ying Lee , Ivan Skorokhodov , Peter Wonka , Sergey Tulyakov , Bernard Ghanem

Text-driven 3D indoor scene generation is useful for gaming, the film industry, and AR/VR applications. However, existing methods cannot faithfully capture the room layout, nor do they allow flexible editing of individual objects in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Chuan Fang , Yuan Dong , Kunming Luo , Xiaotao Hu , Rakesh Shrestha , Ping Tan

Establishing a realistic three-dimensional (3D) microstructure is a crucial step for studying microstructure development of hardened cement pastes. However, acquiring 3D microstructural images for cement often involves high costs and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Xin Zhao , Lin Wang , Qinfei Li , Heng Chen , Shuangrong Liu , Pengkun Hou , Jiayuan Ye , Yan Pei , Xu Wu , Jianfeng Yuan , Haozhong Gao , Bo Yang

In this paper, we propose a methodology designed to support decision-making during the execution phase of military ground combat operations, with a focus on one's actions. This methodology generates and evaluates recommendations for various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Johan Schubert , Patrik Hansen , Pontus Hörling , Ronnie Johansson

Urban areas, as the primary human habitat in modern civilization, accommodate a broad spectrum of social activities. With the surge of embodied intelligence, recent years have witnessed an increasing presence of physical agents in urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shougao Zhang , Mengqi Zhou , Yuxi Wang , Chuanchen Luo , Rongyu Wang , Yiwei Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

This paper deals with generating of an optimized route for multiple Vehicle routing Problems (mVRP). We used a methodology of clustering the given cities depending upon the number of vehicles and each cluster is allotted to a vehicle. k-…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-01-26 R. Nallusamy , K. Duraiswamy , R. Dhanalaksmi , P. Parthiban

The ML-Constructive heuristic is a recently presented method and the first hybrid method capable of scaling up to real scale traveling salesman problems. It combines machine learning techniques and classic optimization techniques. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Tommaso Vitali , Umberto Junior Mele , Luca Maria Gambardella , Roberto Montemanni

This paper describes a new algorithm for decision making in two-player real-time video games. As with Monte Carlo Tree Search, the algorithm can be used without heuristics and has been developed for use in general video game AI. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Jialin Liu , Diego Pérez-Liébana , Simon M. Lucas

In the last decade, autonomous navigation for roboticshas been leveraged by deep learning and other approachesbased on machine learning. These approaches have demon-strated significant advantages in robotics performance. Butthey have the…

The rapid and constant increase in urban population has led to a drastic rise in urban solid waste production with worrying consequences for the environment and society. In many cities, an efficient waste management combined with a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Guido Marseglia , Juan Antonio Mesa , Francisco A Ortega , Ramón Piedra-de-la-Cuadra

A recent line of research concerns the problem of soft happy colouring (SHC), which requires that a partially coloured graph be extended to a complete colouring to maximise local agreements, so that as many vertices as possible end up…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Asef Nazari

This paper considers heuristics for well known resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). First a feasible schedule is constructed using randomized best insertion algorithm. The construction is followed by a local search where…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Igor Pesek , Janez Žerovnik

We present a new multiple-try Metropolis-Hastings algorithm designed to be especially beneficial when a tailored proposal distribution is available. The algorithm is based on a given acyclic graph $G$, where one of the nodes in $G$, $k$…

Computation · Statistics 2018-07-06 Xin Luo , Håkon Tjelmeland

The quality of mesh generation has long been considered a vital aspect in providing engineers with reliable simulation results throughout the history of the Finite Element Method (FEM). The element extraction method, which is currently the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Hua Tong

In the field of material design, traditional crystal structure prediction approaches require extensive structural sampling through computationally expensive energy minimization methods using either force fields or quantum mechanical…

We create 4200 synthetic cities which vary in percent minority population and their residential segregation patterns. Of these, 1200 are modeled on existing cities, and 3000 are rectangular grid cities. In each city, we consider…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-30 William Hager , Betseygail Rand