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Recent neural generation systems have demonstrated the potential for procedurally generating game content, images, stories, and more. However, most neural generation algorithms are "uncontrolled" in the sense that the user has little say in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zhiyu Lin , Rohan Agarwal , Mark Riedl

Long-term memory (LTM) is essential for large language models (LLMs) to achieve autonomous intelligence in complex, evolving environments. Despite increasing efforts in memory-augmented and retrieval-based architectures, there remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Luanbo Wan , Weizhi Ma

The frequent occurrence of cyber-attacks has made webshell attacks and defense gradually become a research hotspot in the field of network security. However, the lack of publicly available benchmark datasets and the over-reliance on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Mingrui Ma , Lansheng Han , Chunjie Zhou

Unlike autoregressive language models, which terminate variable-length generation upon predicting an End-of-Sequence (EoS) token, Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) operate over a fixed maximum-length context window for a predetermined number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Vittorio Rossi , Giacomo Cirò , Davide Beltrame , Luca Gandolfi , Paul Röttger , Dirk Hovy

Large language models (LLMs) struggle on processing complicated observations in interactive decision making tasks. To alleviate this issue, we propose a simple hierarchical prompting approach. Diverging from previous prompting approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Abishek Sridhar , Robert Lo , Frank F. Xu , Hao Zhu , Shuyan Zhou

Zero-shot information extraction (IE) aims to build IE systems from the unannotated text. It is challenging due to involving little human intervention. Challenging but worthwhile, zero-shot IE reduces the time and effort that data labeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiang Wei , Xingyu Cui , Ning Cheng , Xiaobin Wang , Xin Zhang , Shen Huang , Pengjun Xie , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Meishan Zhang , Yong Jiang , Wenjuan Han

Model and hyperparameter selection are critical but challenging in machine learning, typically requiring expert intuition or expensive automated search. We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can act as in-context meta-learners…

It has been a long-standing dream to design artificial agents that explore their environment efficiently via intrinsic motivation, similar to how children perform curious free play. Despite recent advances in intrinsically motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Cansu Sancaktar , Sebastian Blaes , Georg Martius

We present APT, an advanced Large Language Model (LLM)-driven framework that enables autonomous agents to construct complex and creative structures within the Minecraft environment. Unlike previous approaches that primarily concentrate on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jun Yu Chen , Tao Gao

We study a referential game (a type of signaling game) where two agents communicate with each other via a discrete bottleneck to achieve a common goal. In our referential game, the goal of the speaker is to compose a message or a symbolic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Kamal Gupta , Gowthami Somepalli , Anubhav Gupta , Vinoj Jayasundara , Matthias Zwicker , Abhinav Shrivastava

Large Language Models (LLMs) promise to transform interactive games by enabling non-player characters (NPCs) to sustain unscripted dialogue. Yet it remains unclear whether constrained prompts actually improve player experience. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Vanessa Figueiredo , David Elumeze

Large language models (LLMs) transfer well to new tasks out-of-the-box simply given a natural language prompt that demonstrates how to perform the task and no additional training. Prompting is a brittle process wherein small modifications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Simran Arora , Avanika Narayan , Mayee F. Chen , Laurel Orr , Neel Guha , Kush Bhatia , Ines Chami , Frederic Sala , Christopher Ré

It is appealing to have a system that generates a story or scripts automatically from a story-line, even though this is still out of our reach. In dialogue systems, it would also be useful to drive dialogues by a dialogue plan. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yutao Zhu , Ruihua Song , Zhicheng Dou , Jian-Yun Nie , Jin Zhou

Recent work has shown that we can dramatically improve the performance of computer games and simulations through declarative processing: Character AI can be written in an imperative scripting language which is then compiled to relational…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Benjamin Sowell , Alan Demers , Johannes Gehrke , Nitin Gupta , Haoyuan Li , Walker White

Large Language Models (LLMs) leverage chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to provide step-by-step rationales, improving performance on complex tasks. Despite its benefits, vanilla CoT often fails to fully verify intermediate inferences and can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Manish Sanwal

Large-scale video diffusion models show strong world simulation and temporal reasoning abilities, but their use as zero-shot image editors remains underexplored. We introduce IF-Edit, a tuning-free framework that repurposes pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zechuan Zhang , Zhenyuan Chen , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Long-form story generation task aims to produce coherent and sufficiently lengthy text, essential for applications such as novel writingand interactive storytelling. However, existing methods, including LLMs, rely on rigid outlines or lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Qianyue Wang , Jinwu Hu , Zhengping Li , Yufeng Wang , daiyuan li , Yu Hu , Mingkui Tan

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled social simulation through multi-agent systems. Prior efforts focus on agent societies created from scratch, assigning agents with newly defined personas. However, simulating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yiting Ran , Xintao Wang , Tian Qiu , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

GenQuest is a generative text adventure game that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to facilitate second language learning through immersive, interactive storytelling. The system engages English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Qiao Wang , Adnan Labib , Robert Swier , Michael Hofmeyr , Zheng Yuan

Real-world requests to AI agents are fundamentally underspecified. Natural human communication relies on shared context and unstated constraints that speakers expect listeners to infer. Current agentic benchmarks test explicit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ved Sirdeshmukh , Marc Wetter