2026-07-31 · paper-digest
Zhou et al.: The Verifier is the Curriculum — Training Game Generation on a Launch Check Alone — Fukai Reads
A game-generation paper by Chenyu Zhou and colleagues. Starting from a diagnosis that the learned judge is gameable, they gate self-distillation on a single binary signal — does the generated Godot project launch cleanly — and over three rounds lift clean generation on four unseen families from 8.8% to 42.2%, with best-of-16 coverage going 18/25 to 25/25. Loosen the gate and the gain disappears.
