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Simulation is a crucial component of any robotic system. In order to simulate correctly, we need to write complex rules of the environment: how dynamic agents behave, and how the actions of each of the agents affect the behavior of others.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Seung Wook Kim , Yuhao Zhou , Jonah Philion , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Believable Non-Player Characters (NPCs) help motivate player engagement with narrative-driven games. An important aspect of believable characters is their contextually-relevant reactions to changing situations, which emotion often drives in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Geneva M. Smith

Video game developers use game engines as a tool to manage complex aspects of game development. While engines play a big role in the success of games, to the best of our knowledge, they are often developed in isolation, in a closed-source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Gabriel C. Ullmann , Cristiano Politowski , Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc , Fabio Petrillo

Large Language Models' (LLMs) programming capabilities enable their participation in open-source games: a game-theoretic setting in which players submit computer programs in lieu of actions. These programs offer numerous advantages,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Swadesh Sistla , Max Kleiman-Weiner

Character customization system is an important component in Role-Playing Games (RPGs), where players are allowed to edit the facial appearance of their in-game characters with their own preferences rather than using default templates. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Tianyang Shi , Yi Yuan , Changjie Fan , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi , Yong Liu

The universe involves many independent co-learning agents as an ever-evolving part of our observed environment. Yet, in practice, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) applications are typically constrained to small, homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yann Bouteiller , Karthik Soma , Giovanni Beltrame

Neural video game simulators emerged as powerful tools to generate and edit videos. Their idea is to represent games as the evolution of an environment's state driven by the actions of its agents. While such a paradigm enables users to play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Stéphane Lathuilière , Panos Achlioptas , Vladislav Golyanik , Sergey Tulyakov , Elisa Ricci

Drama is a form of storytelling inspired by human creativity, proceeding with a predefined storyline, carrying emotions and thoughts. This paper introduces \emph{LLM-based interactive drama}, which endows traditional drama with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Weiqi Wu , Hongqiu Wu , Lai Jiang , Xingyuan Liu , Jiale Hong , Hai Zhao , Min Zhang

Procedural content generation via machine learning (PCGML) has shown success at producing new video game content with machine learning. However, the majority of the work has focused on the production of static game content, including game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nazanin Yousefzadeh Khameneh , Matthew Guzdial

Reinforcement learning has steadily improved and outperform human in lots of traditional games since the resurgence of deep neural network. However, these success is not easy to be copied to autonomous driving because the state spaces in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Sen Wang , Daoyuan Jia , Xinshuo Weng

In situations involving teams of diverse robots, assigning appropriate roles to each robot and evaluating their performance is crucial. These roles define the specific characteristics of a robot within a given context. The stream actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Behzad Akbari , Zikai Wang , Haibin Zhu , Lucas Wan , Ryan Adderson , Ya-Jun Pan

Open-world survival games pose significant challenges for AI algorithms due to their multi-tasking, deep exploration, and goal prioritization requirements. Despite reinforcement learning (RL) being popular for solving games, its high sample…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yue Wu , Shrimai Prabhumoye , So Yeon Min , Yonatan Bisk , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Amos Azaria , Tom Mitchell , Yuanzhi Li

Strategic decision-making in Pok\'emon battles presents a unique testbed for evaluating large language models. Pok\'emon battles demand reasoning about type matchups, statistical trade-offs, and risk assessment, skills that mirror human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Daksh Jain , Aarya Jain , Ashutosh Desai , Avyakt Verma , Ishan Bhanuka , Pratik Narang , Dhruv Kumar

Large language models (LLMs) have taken the scientific world by storm, changing the landscape of natural language processing and human-computer interaction. These powerful tools can answer complex questions and, surprisingly, perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Pier Luca Lanzi , Daniele Loiacono

Wargames are simulations of conflicts in which participants' decisions influence future events. While casual wargaming can be used for entertainment or socialization, serious wargaming is used by experts to explore strategic implications of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Glenn Matlin , Parv Mahajan , Isaac Song , Yixiong Hao , Ryan Bard , Stu Topp , Evan Montoya , M. Rehan Parwani , Soham Shetty , Mark Riedl

Language carries thought and coordination among humans but rarely reaches further along the spectrum of diverse intelligence. Yet non-neural systems -- from gene regulatory networks and microbial consortia to fungi -- are increasingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yanbo Zhang , Michael Levin

Role-playing games (RPGs) have a considerable amount of text in video game dialogues. Quite often this text is semi-annotated by the game developers. In this paper, we extract a multilingual dataset of persuasive dialogue from several RPGs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Teemu Pöyhönen , Mika Hämäläinen , Khalid Alnajjar

Recent years, there has been growing interests in experience-driven procedural level generation. Various metrics have been formulated to model player experience and help generate personalised levels. In this work, we question whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Keyuan Zhang , Jiayu Bai , Jialin Liu

Humans have mental models that allow them to plan, experiment, and reason in the physical world. How should an intelligent agent go about learning such models? In this paper, we will study if models of the world learned in an open-ended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Chuang Gan , Abhishek Bhandwaldar , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Phillip Isola

We designed and built a game called \textit{Immersive Text Game}, which allows the player to choose a story and a character, and interact with other characters in the story in an immersive manner of dialogues. The game is based on several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Wanshui Li , Yifan Bai , Jiaxuan Lu , Kexin Yi