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We present a novel architecture for safely integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into interactive game engines, allowing players to "program" new behaviors using natural language. Our framework mitigates risks by using an LLM to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Austin Drake , Hang Dong

Modern video games pose significant challenges for traditional automated testing algorithms, yet intensive testing is crucial to ensure game quality. To address these challenges, researchers designed gaming agents using Reinforcement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yifei Chen , Sarra Habchi , Lili Wei

We present a generative optimization approach for learning game-playing agents, where policies are represented as Python programs and refined using large language models (LLMs). Our method treats decision-making policies as self-evolving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhiyi Kuang , Ryan Rong , YuCheng Yuan , Allen Nie

Introduction: This multi-disciplinary case study details how an interactive decision support tool leverages game design to inform an international plastic pollution treaty. Design: Seeking to make our scientific findings more usable within…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-03 A Samuel Pottinger , Nivedita Biyani , Roland Geyer , Douglas J McCauley , Magali de Bruyn , Molly R Morse , Neil Nathan , Kevin Koy , Ciera Martinez

Recent advancements have expanded the role of Large Language Models in board games from playing agents to creative co-designers. However, a critical gap remains: current systems lack the capacity to offer constructive critique grounded in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zizhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Yibin Wang , Yukang Feng , Jianwen Sun , Jiaxin Ai , Fanrui Zhang , Mingzhu Sun , Yifei Huang , Kaipeng Zhang

Instruction-tuned Language Models (ILMs) have become essential components of modern AI systems, demonstrating exceptional versatility across natural language and reasoning tasks. Among their most impactful applications is code generation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zaiyu Cheng , Antonio Mastropaolo

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in designing LLM-based agents for tasks that involve interaction with human and artificial agents. This paper addresses a key aspect in the design of such agents:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Eilam Shapira , Omer Madmon , Reut Apel , Moshe Tennenholtz , Roi Reichart

We introduce GuessingGame, a protocol for evaluating large language models (LLMs) as strategic question-askers in open-ended, open-domain settings. A Guesser LLM identifies a hidden object by posing free-form questions to an Oracle without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Dylan Hutson , Daniel Vennemeyer , Aneesh Deshmukh , Justin Zhan , Tianyu Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress across domains, yet their ability to perform inductive reasoning - inferring latent rules from sparse examples - remains limited. It is often assumed that chain-of-thought (CoT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Haibo Jin , Peiyan Zhang , Man Luo , Haohan Wang

Advancing planning and reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is one of the key prerequisites towards unlocking their potential for performing reliably in complex and impactful domains. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate…

Games have always been a popular test bed for artificial intelligence techniques. Game developers are always in constant search for techniques that can automatically create computer games minimizing the developer's task. In this work we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Zahid Halim

Many poker systems, whether created with heuristics or machine learning, rely on the probability of winning as a key input. However calculating the precise probability using combinatorics is an intractable problem, so instead we approximate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Brandon Da Silva

We propose interdependent defense (IDD) games, a computational game-theoretic framework to study aspects of the interdependence of risk and security in multi-agent systems under deliberate external attacks. Our model builds upon…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Hau Chan , Michael Ceyko , Luis E. Ortiz

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong generative capabilities but remain prone to inconsistencies and hallucinations. We introduce Peer Elicitation Games (PEG), a training-free, game-theoretic framework for aligning LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Baiting Chen , Tong Zhu , Jiale Han , Lexin Li , Gang Li , Xiaowu Dai

Formal models of games help us account for and predict behavior, leading to more robust and innovative designs. While the games research community has proposed many formalisms for both the "game half" (game models, game description…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Chris Martens , Matthew A. Hammer

Although General Game Playing (GGP) systems can facilitate useful research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for game-playing, they are often computationally inefficient and somewhat specialised to a specific class of games. However, since…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Éric Piette , Matthew Stephenson , Dennis J. N. J. Soemers , Cameron Browne

Diplomacy is a complex multiplayer game that requires both cooperation and competition, posing significant challenges for AI systems. Traditional methods rely on equilibrium search to generate extensive game data for training, which demands…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kaixuan Xu , Jiajun Chai , Sicheng Li , Yuqian Fu , Yuanheng Zhu , Dongbin Zhao

This pilot study explores the application of language models (LMs) to model game event sequences, treating them as a customized natural language. We investigate a popular mobile game, transforming raw event data into textual sequences and…

In the synthesis problem, we are given a specification, and we automatically generate a system that satisfies the specification in all environments. We introduce and study {\em synthesis with guided environments} (SGE, for short), where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Orna Kupferman , Ofer Leshkowitz

Differential game logic (dGL) is a logic for specifying and verifying properties of hybrid games, i.e. games that combine discrete, continuous, and adversarial dynamics. Unlike hybrid systems, hybrid games allow choices in the system…

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