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It has recently been shown that reinforcement learning can be used to train generators capable of producing high-quality game levels, with quality defined in terms of some user-specified heuristic. To ensure that these generators' output is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Sam Earle , Maria Edwards , Ahmed Khalifa , Philip Bontrager , Julian Togelius

Text-to-level generation aims to translate natural language descriptions into structured game levels, enabling intuitive control over procedural content generation. While prior text-to-level generators are typically limited to a single game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 In-Chang Baek , Jiyun Jung , Geum-Hwan Hwang , Sung-Hyun Kim , Kyung-Joong Kim

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

Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

Autoregressive video generation aims at real-time, open-ended synthesis. Yet, cinematic storytelling is not merely the endless extension of a single scene; it requires progressing through evolving events, viewpoint shifts, and discrete shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yihao Meng , Zichen Liu , Hao Ouyang , Qiuyu Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Yue Yu , Hanlin Wang , Haobo Li , Jiapeng Zhu , Yanhong Zeng , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Qifeng Chen , Huamin Qu

Automated game design has remained a key challenge within the field of Game AI. In this paper, we introduce a method for recombining existing games to create new games through a process called conceptual expansion. Prior automated game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Matthew Guzdial , Mark Riedl

We introduce the concept of a generative infinite game, a video game that transcends the traditional boundaries of finite, hard-coded systems by using generative models. Inspired by James P. Carse's distinction between finite and infinite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jialu Li , Yuanzhen Li , Neal Wadhwa , Yael Pritch , David E. Jacobs , Michael Rubinstein , Mohit Bansal , Nataniel Ruiz

With increasing interest in procedural content generation by academia and game developers alike, it is vital that different approaches can be compared fairly. However, evaluating procedurally generated video game levels is often difficult,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Michael Beukman , Steven James , Christopher Cleghorn

Computer system creativity is a key step on the pathway to artificial general intelligence (AGI). It is elusive, however, due to the fact that human creativity is not fully understood and, thus, it is difficult to develop this capability in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jeremy Straub , Zach Johnson

Algorithms that generate computer game content require game design knowledge. We present an approach to automatically learn game design knowledge for level design from gameplay videos. We further demonstrate how the acquired design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Matthew Guzdial , Mark Riedl

This study explores the application of evolutionary generative algorithms in music production to preserve and enhance human creativity. By integrating human feedback into Differential Evolution algorithms, we produced six songs that were…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Justin Kilb , Caroline Ellis

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is currently reshaping game development practices, production pipelines, and value networks in an unprecedentedly pervasive manner with cascading consequences remaining unclear. In the last five…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Alexandru Ternar , Alena Denisova , João M. Cunha , Annakaisa Kultima , Christian Guckelsberger

In recent years, machine learning (ML) systems have been increasingly applied for performing creative tasks. Such creative ML approaches have seen wide use in the domains of visual art and music for applications such as image and music…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Anurag Sarkar , Seth Cooper

Multi-shot video generation is crucial for long narrative storytelling, yet current bidirectional architectures suffer from limited interactivity and high latency. We propose ShotStream, a novel causal multi-shot architecture that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yawen Luo , Xiaoyu Shi , Junhao Zhuang , Yutian Chen , Quande Liu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Tianfan Xue

Creativity is a complex phenomenon. When it comes to representing and assessing creativity, treating it as a single undifferentiated quantity would appear naive and underwhelming. In this work, we learn the \emph{first type-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jiyeon Han , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang , Haedong Jeong

With the advancement of interactive video generation, diffusion models have increasingly demonstrated their potential as world models. However, existing approaches still struggle to simultaneously achieve memory-enabled long-term temporal…

The advancement of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents has enabled automated task processing through reasoning and tool invocation capabilities. However, existing frameworks often operate under the idealized assumption that tool…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhipeng Chen , Zhongrui Zhang , Chao Zhang , Yifan Xu , Lan Yang , Jun Liu , Ke Li , Yi-Zhe Song

Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning, persistent state, long-horizon consistency, and causal…

Procedural generation is used across game design to achieve a wide variety of ends, and has led to the creation of several game subgenres by injecting variance, surprise or unpredictability into otherwise static designs. Information games…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Michael Cook