[CFP] GVGAI Single-Player Learning Competition at IEEE CIG2018 (submission opened)

[Jialin Liu]

[Apologises for multiple postings]

Call for Participants

2nd General Video Game AI Single-Player Learning Competition

Organised at the IEEE’s 2018 Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (IEEE CIG18)

Breaking news: GVGAI Learning Track has been interfaced to OpenAI Gym!!! The competition rules have been changed.

We are happy to announce that the 2nd General Video Game AI Single-Player Learning Competition will be organised at the IEEE’s 2018 Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (IEEE CIG18), Maastricht (NL). This year, we have improved the competition framework (thanks to our co-organisers at NYU) and changed the competition rules.

GVGAI website: www.gvgai.net

GVGAI-Gym on GitHub: https://github.com/rubenrtorrado/GVGAI_GYM/

Demo video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/O84KgRt6AJI

Updated competition rules: https://github.com/rubenrtorrado/GVGAI_GYM/blob/master/README.md

CIG18 paper: Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game AI (https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02448)

Survey paper about GVGAI: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10363

Submission link

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cig18

Timeline

Release games for competition: 2 July 2018 Released on 4 July 2018 (named as "testgame1", "testgame2" and "testgame3")

Submission deadline: 22 July 2018 23:59 (GMT) 29 July 2018 23:59 (GMT)

Testing on server: 23-27 July 2018 23:59 (GMT) 30 July - 3 August 2018 23:59 (GMT)

Starting validation on server: 28 July 2018 4 August 2018

Announcement of results: during the CIG18

Prizes

- The final ranking will be announced during the conference and will be included in the newsletter of IEEE CIS.
- The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) will delivery official certificates to the winner and the 1st runner-up.
- The IEEE CIS will also award the top-3 student or young professional winners prizes (500USD/300USD/200USD). For the detailed awarding policy, please refer to the webpage of the IEEE CIS Student Game-Based Competitions Sub-Committee.

Organisers

Jialin Liu (li...@sustc.edu.cn), Southern University of Science and Technology, China; Queen Mary University of London, UK

Ruben Rodriguez Torrado (rrt...@nyu.edu), Philip Bontrager (pjb...@nyu.edu) and Julian Togelius (jul...@togelius.com), New York University, US

Diego Perez-Liebana (diego...@qmul.ac.uk) and Simon M. Lucas (simon...@qmul.ac.uk), Queen Mary University of London, UK