Recent News

• 2024-11-28 New paper: Language Model Crossover: Variation through Few-Shot Prompting (ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization 4:4). This is the much-expanded and peer-reviewed journal version of our preprint originally posted in 2023.
• 2024-11-11 Visiting the University of Gothenburg for the week to kick off an international collaboration grant, Foraging Games: Exploring generative AI systems to tackle high-dimensional game design spaces, with Swen Gaudl
• 2024-10-01 Happy to have Arnav Jhala visiting us today at the AU Game Center
• 2024-09-19 Invited to an AI dinner at the Atlantic Festival, hosted by Nicholas Thompson and Microsoft
• 2024-08-26 Fall 2024 teaching: Artificial Intelligence & Programming Languages. I've put together a new syllabus for AI that tries to balance coverage of fundamentals like search and reinforcement learning with emerging topics like large language models.
• 2024-06-25 Visit to Google DC on behalf of the AU College of Arts and Sciences
• 2024-06-03 On a grant review panel for the National Science Foundation CISE/IIS Robust Intelligence program
• 2024-05-21 At the 2024 Foundations of Digital Games Conference this week
• 2024-05-13 Updated and expanded v3 preprint: Language Model Crossover: Variation through few-shot prompting
• 2024-04-29 New paper: Prompt Wrangling: On replication and generalization in large language models for PCG levels
• 2024-04-19 New paper: Prototyping Slice of Life: Social physics with symbolically grounded LLM-based generative dialogue

2024-03-29 Faculty panel: Perspectives on AI, CAS admitted grad students day

2024-02-26 Research & collaboration visit this week to the University of Gothenburg, visiting Swen Gaudl

2024-01-16 Spring 2024 teaching: Programming Languages & Generative AI in Games

2023-10-30 Invited to an AI dinner co-hosted by Nicholas Thompson and Kent Walker

2023-10-07 Updated and expanded v2 preprint: Language Model Crossover: Variation through few-shot prompting

2023-09-07 Attended Navigating AI's Power and Responsibilities, hosted by Axios

2023-08-28 Fall 2023 teaching: Artificial Intelligence & Programming Languages

2023-08-21 At the 2023 IEEE Conference on Games this week

2023-08-14 Research seminar with Dennis G. Wilson and Amy K. Hoover, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

2023-07-20 New 2023 edition of my Institutions Active in Technical Games Research ranking & directory

2023-06-30 Research visit and seminar talk at the University of Hertfordshire, hosted by Christoph Salge

2023-06-28 Invited talk at the Queen Mary University of London, Analyzing state spaces of Atari games

2023-06-27 Research visit and seminar talk at the University of Essex, hosted by Spyros Samothrakis

2023-04-23 New workshop paper: Towards an authorial leverage evaluation framework for expressive benefits of deep generative models in story writing

2023-03-24 At the Philosophy of Deep Learning Conference this weekend

2023-02-23 New preprint on our evolution-meets-LLMs method, language model crossover, or LMX. arXiv: Language Model Crossover: Variation through few-shot prompting

2023-01-17 Spring 2023 teaching: Programming Languages & Operating Systems

2022-12-08 Visit to Google Mountain View, hosted by Sherol Chen

2022-12-04 At ICIDS 2022 this week

2022-11-01 Invited talk at Sarah Lawrence College, What Does Playing Games Tell Us About AI?

2022-10-14 New paper: Exploring the design space of social physics engines in games

2022-09-11 Blog post: Text-to-image for my inbox

2022-07-12 Software release: MCTSlib, an open-source library for Monte Carlo Tree Search

2022-07-09 At GECCO 2022 this weekend and upcoming week

2022-06-19 At Dagstuhl Seminar 22251 this week – my first in-person research event post-pandemic!

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Mark J. Nelson