Seminar on Human-like Artificial Agents (Summer 2022/23)

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Dates (SIS)

Thursdays, 12:20, S4 but also on Zoom
(Zoom link, sent privately via email)

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Seminar Terms

• You must attend the seminar regularly
• You must give two presentations on a chosen topic
  • The first is a lecture about some scientific paper
  • The second is typically a report about the state of your bachelor/master thesis
• You must act as an opponent for one presentation about your colleague’s bachelor/master thesis
• If the need arises, you will have to participate in some experiment (e.g., evaluating software or a project of your colleague)

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Papers to Choose from

Paper	Links	Presenter
Analysis of Statistical Forward Planning Methods in Pommerman, Diego Perez Liebana, Raluca Gaina, Olve Drageset, Ercument Ilhan, Martin Balla and Simon Lucas (2019)	Paper
Horswill, I. (2020, October). A Declarative PCG Tool for Casual Users. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 81-87).	Paper
Ferreira, L., Lelis, L., & Whitehead, J. (2020, October). Computer-generated music for tabletop role-playing games. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 59-65).	Paper
Bhaumik, Debosmita, et al. “Tree Search versus Optimization Approaches for Map Generation.” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. Vol. 16. No. 1. 2020.	Paper
Karavolos, D., Liapis, A., & Yannakakis, G. N. (2019). A multi-faceted surrogate model for search-based procedural content generation. IEEE Transactions on Games.	Paper
By, T. (2019). Hexagonal grid numbering. IEEE Transactions on Games.	Paper (MFF subnet)
Steinmetz, E. S., & Gini, M. (2020). More Trees or Larger Trees: Parallelizing Monte Carlo Tree Search. IEEE Transactions on Games.	Paper (MFF subnet)
Daylamani-Zad, D., & Angelides, M. C. (2020). Altruism and Selfishness in Believable Game Agents: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Modified Dictator Games. IEEE Transactions on Games, 13(3), 229-238.	Paper (MFF subnet)
Freiknecht, J., & Effelsberg, W. (2019). Procedural generation of multistory buildings with interior. IEEE Transactions on Games, 12(3), 323-336.	Paper (MFF subnet)
Kim, E. Y., & Ashlock, D. (2019). Testing a Protocol for Characterizing Game Playing Agents Trained via Evolution on a New Game. IEEE Transactions on Games, 12(3), 236-245.	Paper
Baeta, F., Correia, J., Martins, T., & Machado, P. (2021). Speed benchmarking of genetic programming frameworks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11919.	Paper
Tisdale, B., Seals, D., Pope, A. S., & Tauritz, D. R. (2021, June). Directing evolution: the automated design of evolutionary pathways using directed graphs. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 732-740).	Paper
Paolo, G., Coninx, A., Doncieux, S., & Laflaquière, A. (2021). Sparse reward exploration via novelty search and emitters. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03140.	Paper
Molin, L. D., Kanwal, J., & Stone, C. (2021, June). Resource availability and the evolution of cooperation in a 3D agent-based simulation. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 93-101).	Paper
Liu, J., Moreau, A., Preuss, M., Rapin, J., Roziere, B., Teytaud, F., & Teytaud, O. (2020, June). Versatile black-box optimization. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 620-628).	Paper
Hevia Fajardo, M. A., & Sudholt, D. (2020, June). On the choice of the parameter control mechanism in the (1+(λ, λ)) genetic algorithm. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 832-840).	Paper
Rajabi, A., & Witt, C. (2020, June). Self-adjusting evolutionary algorithms for multimodal optimization. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 1314-1322).	Paper
Green, M. E., DeLuca, T. F., & Kaiser, K. W. (2020, June). Modeling wildfire using evolutionary cellular automata. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 1089-1097).	Paper
Javaheripi, M., Samragh, M., Javidi, T., & Koushanfar, F. (2020, June). GeneCAI: gene tic evolution for acquiring compact AI. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 350-358).	Paper (MFF subnet)
Do, A. V., Bossek, J., Neumann, A., & Neumann, F. (2020, June). Evolving diverse sets of tours for the travelling salesperson problem. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 681-689).	Paper
Medvet, E., Bartoli, A., De Lorenzo, A., & Fidel, G. (2020, June). Evolution of distributed neural controllers for voxel-based soft robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 112-120).	Paper (MFF subnet)
Santana, C., Keedwell, E., & Menezes, R. (2020, June). An approach to assess swarm intelligence algorithms based on complex networks. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 31-39).	Paper
GECCO Proceedings: 2021, 2020	try to find some
IEEE Transactions on Games (journal): 2021 (1, 2, 3), you can check older as well	try to find some
CIG (Conference on Games, originally CIG, Computational Intelligence in Games): 2020, 2019	try to find some
AIIDE (Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment) Proceedings: 2020, 2019, 2018, you can check older as well	try to find some
IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media conference papers	try to find some
IEEE ICTAI (International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence): 2020, 2019, 2018, you can check older as well	try to find some
ICEC (International Conference on Entertaining Computing) Proceeedings: 2020, 2018, you can check older as well
MIG (Motion in Games): 2021, 2020, 2019, you can check older as well
Everything Procedural conference	try to find some
More venues (via Google Scholar keyword search): “game”, “interactive”, “entertainment”, “game learning”, “interaction” (not everything is related)	try to find some

Structure of the Paper Presentation

1. Summarize what the paper is about, what is its take-home-message (10-15 minutes)
2. Critically feedback the writing of the paper (5 minutes), e.g.:
   1. They claimed something at the beginning, that they did not deliver;
   2. the hypothesis was clear but the experiment is not designed so it may bring fruitful data;
   3. the data reported, when you try to interpret them, is not supporting the discussion within the paper;
   4. is the experiment replicable?
   5. …

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Structure of the Project-WIP Intro Presentation

1. Quickly mention what your work is about
2. Tell us the motivation behind your work
   1. Why are you pursuing this topic?
   2. What is scientifically exciting about your topic?
   3. What the result should ideally be?
   4. Who can benefit from your work?
3. Describe the state of your work
   1. How are you planning to finish the thesis, what steps are required to deliver it?
   2. What have you done so far and what is before you
4. End the presentation with open challenges or current problems you are facing to spark the discussion

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Structure of the Project-WIP Presentation

1. Quickly recap what your work is about
2. Tell us about the delta you have done / what problems you have solved
3. What challenges you still face or what have not worked and you still need to solve

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Seminar Schedule

Date	Note	Presenter
2.3.	cancelled
9.3.	Scientific Reading 1	Tomáš Plhák
	Project Presentation 1	Jakub Hroník
16.3.	Scientific Reading 2	David Šosvald
	Project Presentation 2	Vojtěch Pröschl
23.3.	Scientific Reading 3	Jakub Hroník
	Project Presentation 3	David Šosvald
30.3.	Scientific Reading 4	Vojtěch Pröschl
	Project Presentation 4	Tomáš Kalva
6.4.	cancelled
13.4.	Scientific Reading 5	Alexander Chubar
	Project Presentation 5	Tomáš Plhák
20.4.	Scientific Reading 6	Reut Tal
	Project Presentation 6	Alexander Chubar
4.5.	Scientific Reading 7	Filip Sedlák
	Project Presentation 7	Reut Tal
11.5.	Scientific Reading 8	Petr Guba
	Project Presentation 8	Petr Šimůnek
18.5.	Scientific Reading 9	Tomáš Kalva
	Project Presentation 9	Filip Sedlák