{"id":548,"date":"2024-03-16T20:15:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T02:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/?page_id=548"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:47:17","slug":"adaptiveai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/adaptiveai\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaptive AI Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The goal of the Adaptive AI Agents research program is to push the boundaries of AI algorithms in the ability to adjust their actions based on new changes in the environment, thus creating more versatile AI agents that are able to make decisions autonomously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Techniques we explore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reinforcement Learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transfer Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Published work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kimiya Saadat,&nbsp;Richard Zhao. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1609\/aiide.v20i1.31871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enhancing Two-Player Performance Through Single-Player Knowledge Transfer: An Empirical Study on Atari 2600 Games<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Proceedings of the Twentieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-24)<\/em>, Lexington, USA, November, 2024. [<a href=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2024\/09\/2024aiide-transfer-learning.pdf\">Link<\/a>] Acceptance Rate: 26.5%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yiwei Zhang,&nbsp;Richard Zhao.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/Vol-3626\/paper5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enhancing MCTS with Convolutional Autoencoder and Linear Approximator in XCOM-Inspired Environments<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Proceedings of the Tenth AIIDE Workshop on Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Games (EXAG)<\/em>, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, October, 2023. [<a href=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2023\/10\/2023exag-convolutional_autoencoder.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca\/~richard.zhao1\/bibtex\/2023exag-convolutional_autoencoder.bib\">BibTeX<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kimiya Saadat,&nbsp;Richard Zhao.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.11575\/PRISM\/40781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exploring Adaptive MCTS with TD Learning in miniXCOM<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Proceedings of the Ninth AIIDE Workshop on Experimental Artificial Intelligence in Game<\/em>s<em>&nbsp;(EXAG)<\/em>, Pomona, California, USA, October, 2022. [<a href=\"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/serious-games\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/136\/2023\/06\/2022exag-adaptive_mcts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca\/~richard.zhao1\/bibtex\/2022exag-adaptive_mcts.bib\">BibTeX<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hannah Ava Sloan, Richard Zhao, Faisal Aqlan, Hui Yang, Rui Zhu.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.18260\/1-2--41234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adaptive Virtual Assistant for Virtual Reality-based Remote Learning<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &amp; Exposition (ASEE 2022)<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Proceedings<\/em>. Minneapolis, USA, June, 2022. 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