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Record W7084617694 · doi:10.1109/tg.2025.3617866

Semi-Supervised Tile Embeddings: A General, Multigame Level Representation

2025· article· en· W7084617694 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Games · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicScience and Science Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsTileRepresentation (politics)Scale (ratio)Video gameSimple (philosophy)

Abstract

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Representing video game levels for level generation and analysis tasks remains an open problem. Existing approaches generally rely on hand-authoring or are game-specific. Tile embeddings are a general machine learned-representation for tile-based game levels, however they have thus far relied solely upon hand-authored representations of levels for training data. In this paper, we introduce Semi-Supervised Tile Embeddings (SSTE) which make use of semi-supervised learning to allow for training on levels lacking human authored representations. We evaluate SSTE over many experiments, finding that it performs equivalently or better than existing tile embeddings. Thus SSTE stands as the first general machine-learned level representation that can scale without requiring additional human labor.

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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)0.001
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.684
Threshold uncertainty score0.734

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
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 head0.074
GPT teacher head0.387
Teacher spread0.313 · 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