Need ideas for my dissertation project please

Ok first of all I am a complete newbie with procedural generation. Please treat me like one. I was just very fascinated with the whole idea of procedurally generating stuff. I have played No Man's Sky and the whole concept just blew my mind. And I really want to try it myself.

So to the main point. I need help for ideas about my dissertation project. In general, we are supposed to base our project on a pre-existing paper published by someone else and maybe try to find improvements in it. I have around 2 Months to do the project and learn the stuff. I very much want to do something with ML and PCG. I personally want to do something original using methods that have not been researched upon a lot and hopefully achieve positive results that show that the method I used is better than the ones that other papers mention.

So any and all ideas are appreciated please! _/\\_

As for my knowledge level, I am a computer science master's student and I created a project where I trained a model that predicts the guitar chords using CNN in real time. So I have some knowledge in Machine Learning and Neural Networks.

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