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Virtual Character Behavior Architecture using Cyclic Scheduling

2014· article· en· W2578877138 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFoundations of Digital Games · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicArtificial Intelligence in Games
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceBottleneckScripting languageArchitectureScheduling (production processes)Virtual actorVideo gameCharacter (mathematics)Human–computer interactionArtificial intelligenceVirtual realityMultimediaProgramming language
DOInot available

Abstract

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A story-based video game contains many characters. The majority are virtual characters controlled by artificial intelligence. In recent years, virtual character artificial intelligence has developed slower than other aspects of video games, such as graphics, mainly due to the cost of scripting complex and believable virtual characters. To tackle this bottleneck in content creation, this research proposes a new Tiered Behavior Architecture model for controlling the behaviors of virtual characters. For local scenes, techniques such as Behavior Capture with Hidden Markov Models, which has been evaluated by user studies that validated its success in generating fine-grained behaviors, can be used to fulfill the roles. At a larger scale, a hierarchical cyclic scheduler determines the general circumstances, schedules, and objectives of the virtual characters as well as the roles that will accomplish these objectives. This paper describes experiments and user studies that validate this model.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.853
Threshold uncertainty score0.544

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it