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<span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: Arial">3rd General Video Game AI Single-Player Learning Competition</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102)">Organised at the IEEE’s 2019 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC2019)</span></p>
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<span><font color="#666666" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 20px"><a href="http://cec2019.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204)">http://cec2019.org/</a></span></font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">We are happy to announce that the 3rd General Video Game AI Single-Player Learning Competition will be organised at
</span><a href="http://cec2019.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">the IEEE’s 2019 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC2019)</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">,
Wellington (New Zealand). </span><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">GVGAI Learning Track has been interfaced to
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px"><span><b>GVGAI website: </b></span><span><a href="http://www.gvgai.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204)">www.gvgai.net</a></span></font></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial"><b>GVGAI Learning Competition website (rules & submission):
</b></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial"><a href="http://www.gvgai.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204)">http://www.aingames.cn/gvgai-<wbr>cec2019/</a></span><br>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px"><span><b>GVGAI-Gym on GitHub: </b></span><a href="https://github.com/rubenrtorrado/GVGAI_GYM/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204)"><span>https://github.com/<wbr>rubenrtorrado/GVGAI_GYM/</span></a></font></div>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 15px"><span><b>Demo video on YouTube: </b></span><a href="https://youtu.be/O84KgRt6AJI" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204)"><span>https://youtu.be/O84KgRt6AJI</span></a></font></div>
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<b style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial">CIG18 paper about GVGAI Learning: </b></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial">Deep Reinforcement Learning for General Video Game A</i><i style="font-family: Arial">I</i><span style="font-family: Arial"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial">(</span><font style="font-family: Arial"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02448" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204)">https://arxiv.org/abs/<wbr>1806.02448</a>)</font></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><i>General Video Game AI: a Multi-Track Framework for Evaluating Agents, Games and Content Generation Algorithms</i> (<font><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10363" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-size: 15px">https://arxiv.org/<wbr>abs/1802.10363</a></font>)</div>
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<b><font color="#0433ff">(named as "cec1", "cec2" and "cec3")</font></b></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Submission deadline:
<span>30 April 2019 23:59 (GMT)</span> </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt">Announcement of results: during the CEC2019</span><br>
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Organised by Hao Tong<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0">1</span>, Ruben Rodriguez Torrado<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0">2</span> and Philip Bontrager<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0">2</span></p>
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Steering Committee: Jialin Liu<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0">1</span>, Julian Togelius<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0">2</span>, Diego Perez-Liebana<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0">3</span> and Simon
M. Lucas<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0">3</span></p>
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University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China</i></div>
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York University (NYU), USA</i></div>
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Mary University of London (QMUL), UK</i></div>
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