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XGBoost-Based Synergistic Partner Recommendation in Strategy Games

2025· article· en· W4414723343 on OpenAlex
Jinzhao He

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Bibliographic record

VenueApplied and Computational Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEducational Games and Gamification
Canadian institutionsEarl Haig Secondary School
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBaseline (sea)Order (exchange)Binary numberWork (physics)Binary classificationBattleBase (topology)

Abstract

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Making a team with optimal synergy is essential for competitive success in strategy games like Pokémon. This study attempts an XGBoost-based recommendation model that forecasts synergistic Pokémon pairings utilizing numerical base stats and symbolic domain-specific features, incorporating type synergy scores and one-hot encodings of primary types. The paper applies 1,000 graded Gen9OU matches from Pokémon Showdown to produce a dataset as a binary classification task. The 49-dimensional advanced model, which has an Area Under the Curve of 0.824 and a precision of 0.766, shows the significance of type-based features in emulating team synergy. It provides notable performance improvements from the 12-dimensional baseline model. The planned strategy is compatible with the fundamental principles of Pokémon battles, which significantly affect outcomes. In order to enhance the accuracy and practical application, future work will likely investigate richer battle features, multi-core combinations, and larger datasets. Overall, this research underscores the potential of machine learning to systematically capture and predict strategic synergy in competitive gaming.

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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.

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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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.633
Threshold uncertainty score0.364

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.278 · 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