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This paper presents an adaptive level generation algorithm for the physics-based puzzle game Angry Birds. The proposed algorithm is based on a pre-existing level generator for this game, but where the difficulty of the generated levels can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Matthew Stephenson , Jochen Renz

Character animation in real-world scenarios necessitates a variety of constraints, such as trajectories, key-frames, interactions, etc. Existing methodologies typically treat single or a finite set of these constraint(s) as separate control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanchao Liu , Xiaohang Zhan , Shaoli Huang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ying Shan

Generating animation of physics-based characters with intuitive control has long been a desirable task with numerous applications. However, generating physically simulated animations that reflect high-level human instructions remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiawei Ren , Mingyuan Zhang , Cunjun Yu , Xiao Ma , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Continual learning refers to the ability of humans and animals to incrementally learn over time in a given environment. Trying to simulate this learning process in machines is a challenging task, also due to the inherent difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Enrico Meloni , Alessandro Betti , Lapo Faggi , Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Stefano Melacci

Reinforcement learning requires interaction with an environment, which is expensive for robots. This constraint necessitates approaches that work with limited environmental interaction by maximizing the reuse of previous experiences. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Benedict Quartey , Ankit Shah , George Konidaris

Creating hand-drawn animation sequences is labor-intensive and demands professional expertise. We introduce PhysAnimator, a novel approach for generating physically plausible meanwhile anime-stylized animation from static anime…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tianyi Xie , Yiwei Zhao , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

We propose the problem of tutorial generation for games, i.e. to generate tutorials which can teach players to play games, as an AI problem. This problem can be approached in several ways, including generating natural language descriptions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Michael Cerny Green , Ahmed Khalifa , Gabriella A. B. Barros , Julian Togelius

Despite recent successes of reinforcement learning (RL), it remains a challenge for agents to transfer learned skills to related environments. To facilitate research addressing this problem, we propose CausalWorld, a benchmark for causal…

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

Generating 3D humans that functionally interact with 3D scenes remains an open problem with applications in embodied AI, robotics, and interactive content creation. The key challenge involves reasoning about both the semantics of functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jie Liu , Yu Sun , Alpar Cseke , Yao Feng , Nicolas Heron , Michael J. Black , Yan Zhang

Recent advances in video generation models have sparked interest in world models capable of simulating realistic environments. While navigation has been well-explored, physically meaningful interactions that mimic real-world forces remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Nate Gillman , Charles Herrmann , Michael Freeman , Daksh Aggarwal , Evan Luo , Deqing Sun , Chen Sun

Recent findings suggest that humans deploy cognitive mechanism of physics simulation engines to simulate the physics of objects. We propose a framework for bots to deploy probabilistic programming tools for interacting with intuitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Fahad Alhasoun , Sarah Alnegheimish , Joshua Tenenbaum

In order for AI to be safely deployed in real-world scenarios such as hospitals, schools, and the workplace, it must be able to robustly reason about the physical world. Fundamental to this reasoning is physical common sense: understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Samuel Yu , Peter Wu , Paul Pu Liang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency

AI assistance continues to help advance applications in education, from language learning to intelligent tutoring systems, yet current methods for providing students feedback are still quite limited. Most automatic feedback systems either…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Megha Srivastava , Noah Goodman , Dorsa Sadigh

Physics-based manipulation in clutter involves complex interaction between multiple objects. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning, from interaction in a physics simulator, manipulation skills to solve this multi-step…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Wissam Bejjani , Mehmet R. Dogar , Matteo Leonetti

Traditionally, scholars in physics education research pay attention to students solving well-structured learning activities, which provide restricted room for collaboration and idea-generation due to their close-ended nature. In order to…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-03-31 Javier Pulgar , Alexis Spina , Carlos Ríos

Inducing causal relationships from observations is a classic problem in machine learning. Most work in causality starts from the premise that the causal variables themselves are observed. However, for AI agents such as robots trying to make…

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake

Research in cognitive science has provided extensive evidence of human cognitive ability in performing physical reasoning of objects from noisy perceptual inputs. Such a cognitive ability is commonly known as intuitive physics. With…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Jiafei Duan , Arijit Dasgupta , Jason Fischer , Cheston Tan

Physical AI systems need to perceive, understand, and perform complex actions in the physical world. In this paper, we present the Cosmos-Reason1 models that can understand the physical world and generate appropriate embodied decisions…