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20182022
most citedTowards Interactive Training of Non-Player Characters in Video Games

13 citations · 25 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CV2022

Domain Engineering for Applied Monocular Reconstruction of Parametric Faces

Igor Borovikov, Karine Levonyan, Jon Rein +2

Many modern online 3D applications and video games rely on parametric models of human faces for creating believable avatars. However, manually reproducing someone's facial likeness…

cs.LG2019

Hierarchical Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Skill Discovery

Jiachen Yang, Igor Borovikov, Hongyuan Zha

Human players in professional team sports achieve high level coordination by dynamically choosing complementary skills and executing primitive actions to perform these skills. As a…

cs.MA201912 cited

On Multi-Agent Learning in Team Sports Games

Yunqi Zhao, Igor Borovikov, Jason Rupert +2

In recent years, reinforcement learning has been successful in solving video games from Atari to Star Craft II. However, the end-to-end model-free reinforcement learning (RL) is no…

cs.LG201913 cited

Towards Interactive Training of Non-Player Characters in Video Games

Igor Borovikov, Jesse Harder, Michael Sadovsky +1

There is a high demand for high-quality Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in video games. Hand-crafting their behavior is a labor intensive and error prone engineering process with limi…

cs.AI2019

Winning Isn't Everything: Enhancing Game Development with Intelligent Agents

Yunqi Zhao, Igor Borovikov, Fernando de Mesentier Silva +14

Recently, there have been several high-profile achievements of agents learning to play games against humans and beat them. In this paper, we study the problem of training intellige…

cs.AI2018

Exploring Gameplay With AI Agents

Fernando de Mesentier Silva, Igor Borovikov, John Kolen +2

The process of playtesting a game is subjective, expensive and incomplete. In this paper, we present a playtesting approach that explores the game space with automated agents and c…