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Zero-sum games have long guided artificial intelligence research, since they possess both a rich strategy space of best-responses and a clear evaluation metric. What's more, competition is a vital mechanism in many real-world multi-agent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Edward Hughes , Thomas W. Anthony , Tom Eccles , Joel Z. Leibo , David Balduzzi , Yoram Bachrach

This paper discusses the effects of social learning in training of game playing agents. The training of agents in a social context instead of a self-play environment is investigated. Agents that use the reinforcement learning algorithms are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-10-21 Vukosi N. Marivate , Tshilidzi Marwala

When an individual's behavior has rational characteristics, this may lead to irrational collective actions for the group. A wide range of organisms from animals to humans often evolve the social attribute of cooperation to meet this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Zhenbo Cheng , Xingguang Liu , Leilei Zhang , Hangcheng Meng , Qin Li , Xiao Gang

In general-sum games, the interaction of self-interested learning agents commonly leads to socially worse outcomes, such as defect-defect in the iterated stag hunt (ISH). Previous works address this challenge by sharing rewards or shaping…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Ziyi Liu , Yongchun Fang

In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), agents typically form a single grand coalition based on credit assignment to tackle a composite task, often resulting in suboptimal performance. This paper proposed a nucleolus-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yugu Li , Zehong Cao , Jianglin Qiao , Siyi Hu

A growing body of multi-agent studies with LLMs explores how norms and cooperation emerge in mixed-motive scenarios, where pursuing individual gain can undermine the collective good. While prior work has explored these dynamics in both…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Prateek Gupta , Qiankun Zhong , Hiromu Yakura , Thomas Eisenmann , Iyad Rahwan

Altruistic cooperation is costly yet socially desirable. As a result, agents struggle to learn cooperative policies through independent reinforcement learning (RL). Indirect reciprocity, where agents consider their interaction partner's…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Martin Smit , Fernando P. Santos

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, understanding their cooperation and social mechanisms is becoming increasingly important. In particular, how LLMs balance self-interest and collective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 David Guzman Piedrahita , Yongjin Yang , Mrinmaya Sachan , Giorgia Ramponi , Bernhard Schölkopf , Zhijing Jin

Human behavioural patterns exhibit selfish or competitive, as well as selfless or altruistic tendencies, both of which have demonstrable effects on human social and economic activity. In behavioural economics, such effects have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Jan E. Snellman , Gerardo Iñiguez , János Kertész , R. A. Barrio , Kimmo K. Kaski

In this work we present a method for using Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) in multi-objective environments. Deep Q-Networks provide remarkable performance in single objective problems learning from high-level visual state representations. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Tomasz Tajmajer

Policy and guideline proposals for ethical artificial-intelligence research have proliferated in recent years. These are supposed to guide the socially-responsible development of AI for the common good. However, there typically exist…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Travis LaCroix , Aydin Mohseni

Large language model-empowered agentic recommender systems (ARS) reformulate recommendation as a multi-turn interaction between a recommender agent and a user agent, enabling iterative preference elicitation and refinement beyond…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Shazia Sadiq , Tianrui Li

Evolutionary game theory, encompassing discrete, continuous, and mixed strategies, is pivotal for understanding cooperation dynamics. Discrete strategies involve deterministic actions with a fixed probability of one, whereas continuous…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-13 Zehua Si , Zhixue He , Chen Shen , Jun Tanimoto

Deep reinforcement learning algorithms can perform poorly in real-world tasks due to the discrepancy between source and target environments. This discrepancy is commonly viewed as the disturbance in transition dynamics. Many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yufei Kuang , Miao Lu , Jie Wang , Qi Zhou , Bin Li , Houqiang Li

Recent breakthroughs in AI for multi-agent games like Go, Poker, and Dota, have seen great strides in recent years. Yet none of these games address the real-life challenge of cooperation in the presence of unknown and uncertain teammates.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Jack Serrino , Max Kleiman-Weiner , David C. Parkes , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

As humans perceive and actively engage with the world, we adjust our decisions in response to shifting group dynamics and are influenced by social interactions. This study aims to identify which aspects of interaction affect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-23 Lucila G. Alvarez-Zuzek , Laura Ferrarotti , Bruno Lepri , Riccardo Gallotti

Gallice and Monzon (2019) present a natural environment that sustains full cooperation in one-shot social dilemmas among a finite number of self-interested agents. They demonstrate that in a sequential public goods game, where agents lack…

General Economics · Economics 2025-04-15 Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar , Konstantinos Georgalos , Sonali SenGupta

Achieving robust coordination and cooperation is a central challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Uncovering the mechanisms underlying such emergent behaviors calls for a dynamical understanding of learn processes. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-13 Yuxin Geng , Wolfram Barfuss , Feng Fu , Xingru Chen

As AI agents become increasingly capable of tool use and long-horizon tasks, they have begun to be deployed in settings where multiple agents can interact. However, whereas prior work has mostly focused on human-AI interactions, there is an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Olivia Long , Carter Teplica

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a booming area of artificial intelligence. Many practical applications of DRL naturally involve more than one collaborative learners, making it important to study DRL in a multi-agent context. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Gang Chen