Publications (4)
Moonshine: Distilling Game Content Generators into Steerable Generative Models
Yuhe Nie, Michael Middleton, Tim Merino +4
Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning (PCGML) has enhanced game content creation, yet challenges in controllability and limited training data persist. This study addre…
Dream-Cubed: Controllable Generative Modeling in Minecraft by Training on Billions of Cubes
Tim Merino, Sam Earle, Ryunosuke Iwai +2
We introduce Dream-Cubed, a large-scale dataset of Minecraft worlds at voxel resolution, and a family of models using cubes as powerful compositional units for efficient generation…
Making New Connections: LLMs as Puzzle Generators for The New York Times' Connections Word Game
Tim Merino, Sam Earle, Ryan Sudhakaran +2
The Connections puzzle is a word association game published daily by The New York Times (NYT). In this game, players are asked to find groups of four words that are connected by a…
Missed Connections: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models
Graham Todd, Tim Merino, Sam Earle +1
The Connections puzzle published each day by the New York Times tasks players with dividing a bank of sixteen words into four groups of four words that each relate to a common them…