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  1. arXiv Game AI49

    Can AI agents learn their way to the top? AAArena evaluates heuristic learning in a long-running game competition

    The paper proposes the AAArena benchmark, using 12 real adversarial games and 1,920 archived human programs to evaluate agents' learning ability in long-running competitions. Among the evaluated model and tool configurations, Opus5.5 with Claude Code took 6 gold medals, and no configuration could take the remaining 6 human ladders.

    Why it matters: AAArena organizes 12 adversarial games and 1,920 human programs into a competition-style evaluation, which can be used to observe the limits of how agents improve their strategies from limited samples.

  2. arXiv Game AI45

    AgentGarten: a code world framework for continually evolving agents

    The paper proposes the AgentGarten framework, which couples simulators and game engines to a shared neural renderer to build real-time interactive virtual environments. The simulation backend maintains persistent world state and executes program-defined interaction rules, while the renderer generates visual observations from structured conditions exported through a unified interface; the neural renderer is adapted from a pretrained video model to take geometry-conditioned input, is distilled with the proposed Adversarial Forcing, and has its inference optimized for real-time interaction.

    Why it matters: The paper wires simulators and game engines into a single neural renderer, and reports learning-efficiency results comparing an agent's 4 rounds of experience with millions of rounds of reinforcement learning.

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