Summary of Moonshine: Distilling Game Content Generators Into Steerable Generative Models, by Yuhe Nie et al.
Moonshine: Distilling Game Content Generators into Steerable Generative Models
by Yuhe Nie, Michael Middleton, Tim Merino, Nidhushan Kanagaraja, Ashutosh Kumar, Zhan Zhuang, Julian Togelius
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This study addresses challenges in procedural content generation (PCG) via machine learning (ML), focusing on controllability and limited training data. The researchers develop a controllable PCGML model by distilling a constructive algorithm into a neural network using synthetic labels from a large language model (LLM). They condition two PCGML models, a diffusion model and the five-dollar model, with these labels to generate content-specific game maps. This text-conditioned PCGML approach, dubbed Text-to-game-Map (T2M), offers an alternative to traditional text-to-image tasks. The study compares the distilled models with the baseline constructive algorithm and evaluates the quality, accuracy, and variety of generated game maps. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PCG via ML has improved game content creation, but it still faces challenges. Scientists found a way to make PCG more controllable by using big language models. They trained two special models that can generate game maps based on text prompts. This approach is called Text-to-game-Map (T2M) and it’s different from traditional image generation tasks. The researchers tested their new method with the old one and showed that it works better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion model » Image generation » Large language model » Machine learning » Neural network
