LEADER-FOLLOWER HIERARCHY-BASED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTERS IN VIRTUAL DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

原文（中文）

A processing system includes a plurality of hardware components and a non-playable character (NPC) management circuit. The NPC management circuit is configured to select at least one NPC of a plurality of NPCs in a virtual digital environment as a leader NPC and designate remaining NPCs of the plurality of NPCs as follower NPCs in response to the plurality of NPCs being assigned to a first NPC group. The NPC management circuit is further configured to configure the at least one leader NPC to make decisions using a machine learning-based policy. The NPC management circuit is also configured to provide a decision made by the at least one leader NPC to the follower NPCs.