arXiv AI
Jun 26
Accelerating Skill Assessment in Chess: A Drift-Diffusion-Enhanced Elo Rating System
arXiv:2606. 26267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rating systems such as Elo serve as the gold standard for matchmaking in competitive chess.
AI sustains higher strategic tension than humans in chess
arXiv:2508. 13213v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strategic decision-making requires balancing immediate opportunities against long-term objectives: a tension fundamental to competitive environments.
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People use fast and flat simulation to reason about new games
arXiv:2510. 11503v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Games have long been a microcosm for studying planning and reasoning in both natural and artificial intelligence (AI), often focusing on expert-level or even super-human play.
arXiv AI
Jul 2
Play Like Champions: Counterfactual Feedback Generation in Latent Space
arXiv:2607. 00190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in reinforcement learning have produced superhuman agents across a wide range of competitive games.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
Experience-Sensitive Game Learning: A Behavioral Study of Humans and Language Agents
arXiv:2608. 07490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly evaluated through games, but most benchmarks emphasize final outcomes rather than how players learn from repeated interaction.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
Serious Games: Human-AI Interaction, Evolution, and Coevolution
arXiv:2505. 16388v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The serious games between humans and AI have only just begun.
arXiv AI
Jul 14
GrandCode: Achieving Grandmaster Level in Competitive Programming via Agentic Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2604. 02721v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Competitive programming remains one of the last few human strongholds in coding against AI.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
Social Gym and SPaRTan: Benchmarking and Improving LLM Social Reasoning via Multi-Agent Game Tournaments
arXiv:2608. 09128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent social settings where they must cooperate, negotiate, and adapt to other agents.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
From Multimodal Perception to Strategic Reasoning: A Survey on AI-Generated Game Commentary
arXiv:2506. 17294v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advent of artificial intelligence has propelled AI-Generated Game Commentary (AI-GGC) into a rapidly expanding research area, offering advantages such as scalable availability and personalized narration.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31
Policy Gradient Steering: Interventions from Behavioral Objectives
arXiv:2607. 27574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering has emerged in large language models as a lightweight alternative for dynamically changing a model's behavior at inference time.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
Synthetic Counteradaptation: A Principle of Human-AI Co-evolution
arXiv:2606. 15503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we introduce the concept of synthetic counteradaptation, a process where human and AI systems co-evolve by adapting to each other's strategies and behaviors.
arXiv AI
Jun 17
WallZero: Mastering the Game of WallGo with Strategic Analysis
arXiv:2606. 17847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: WallGo is a recently introduced strategic board game popularized by the 2025 Netflix series The Devil's Plan.
arXiv AI
Jul 29
Game AI Not Fun? A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis on the Differences in Enjoyment between Human and Computer Opponents
arXiv:2607. 24749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although advancements in game character AI aim to enhance player engagement, evidence suggests that perceiving an opponent as artificial can diminish the psychological experience.