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Deception plays a key role in adversarial or strategic interactions for the purpose of self-defence and survival. This paper introduces a general framework and solution to address deception. Most existing approaches for deception consider…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Bo Wu , Murat Cubuktepe , Suda Bharadwaj , Ufuk Topcu

Deceptive agents are a challenge for the safety, trustworthiness, and cooperation of AI systems. We focus on the problem that agents might deceive in order to achieve their goals (for instance, in our experiments with language models, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Francis Rhys Ward , Francesco Belardinelli , Francesca Toni , Tom Everitt

We study the design of autonomous agents that are capable of deceiving outside observers about their intentions while carrying out tasks in stochastic, complex environments. By modeling the agent's behavior as a Markov decision process, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yagiz Savas , Christos K. Verginis , Ufuk Topcu

Autonomous systems are increasingly expected to operate in the presence of adversaries, though adversaries may infer sensitive information simply by observing a system. Therefore, present a deceptive sequential decision-making framework…

The use of deceptive strategies is important for an agent that attempts not to reveal his intentions in an adversarial environment. We consider a setting in which a supervisor provides a reference policy and expects an agent to follow the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Mustafa O. Karabag , Melkior Ornik , Ufuk Topcu

Deception is a technique to mislead human or computer systems by manipulating beliefs and information. Successful deception is characterized by the information-asymmetric, dynamic, and strategic behaviors of the deceiver and the deceivee.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Tao Zhang , Quanyan zhu

Deception is a common defense mechanism against adversaries with an information disadvantage. It can force such adversaries to select suboptimal policies for a defender's benefit. We consider a setting where an adversary tries to learn the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Filippos Fotiadis , Aris Kanellopoulos , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Ufuk Topcu

Intention deception involves computing a strategy which deceives the opponent into a wrong belief about the agent's intention or objective. This paper studies a class of probabilistic planning problems with intention deception and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Jie Fu

In this paper, we study the use of deception for strategic planning in adversarial environments. We model the interaction between the agent (player 1) and the adversary (player 2) as a two-player concurrent game in which the adversary has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Lening Li , Haoxiang Ma , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu

Deception is virtually ubiquitous in warfare, and should be a central consideration for military operations research. However, studies of agent behaviour in simulated operations have typically neglected to include explicit models of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Lyndon Benke , Michael Papasimeon , Tim Miller

We consider a team of autonomous agents that navigate in an adversarial environment and aim to achieve a task by allocating their resources over a set of target locations. An adversary in the environment observes the autonomous team's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Shenghui Chen , Yagiz Savas , Mustafa O. Karabag , Brian M. Sadler , Ufuk Topcu

Today's high-stakes adversarial interactions feature attackers who constantly breach the ever-improving security measures. Deception mitigates the defender's loss by misleading the attacker to make suboptimal decisions. In order to formally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Zheyuan Ryan Shi , Ariel D. Procaccia , Kevin S. Chan , Sridhar Venkatesan , Noam Ben-Asher , Nandi O. Leslie , Charles Kamhoua , Fei Fang

Systems operating in adversarial environments may inadvertently leak sensitive information to adversaries. To address this challenge, we revisit the linear-quadratic control framework and introduce deception to actively mislead adversaries.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yerin Kim , Haosheng Zhou , Alexander Benvenuti , Ruimeng Hu , Matthew Hale

In this work, we study a class of deception planning problems in which an agent aims to alter a security monitoring system's sensor readings so as to disguise its adversarial itinerary as an allowed itinerary in the environment. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Hazhar Rahmani , Arash Ahadi , Jie Fu

We introduce deceptive signaling framework as a new defense measure against advanced adversaries in cyber-physical systems. In general, adversaries look for system-related information, e.g., the underlying state of the system, in order to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Muhammed O. Sayin , Tamer Basar

Deception is a common strategy adapted by autonomous systems in adversarial settings. Existing deception methods primarily focus on increasing opacity or misdirecting agents away from their goal or itinerary. In this work, we propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hazhar Rahmani , Mukulika Ghosh , Syed Md Hasnayeen

We pose an active perception problem where an autonomous agent actively interacts with a second agent with potentially adversarial behaviors. Given the uncertainty in the intent of the other agent, the objective is to collect further…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Macheng Shen , Jonathan P How

Deception is helpful for agents masking their intentions from an observer. We consider a team of agents deceiving their supervisor. The supervisor defines nominal behavior for the agents via reference policies, but the agents share an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Caleb Probine , Mustafa O. Karabag , Ufuk Topcu

We study decision-making with rational inattention in settings where agents have perception constraints. In such settings, inaccurate prior beliefs or models of others may lead to inattention blindness, where an agent is unaware of its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mustafa O. Karabag , Jesse Milzman , Ufuk Topcu

Trajectory and control secrecy is an important issue in robotics security. This paper proposes a novel algorithm for the control input inference of a mobile agent without knowing its control objective. Specifically, the algorithm first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Chendi Qu , Jianping He , Xiaoming Duan , Shukun Wu
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