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In 2021 the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory held an internal challenge to develop artificially intelligent (AI) agents that could excel at the collaborative card game Hanabi. Agents were evaluated on their ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Nicholas Kantack

From the early days of computing, games have been important testbeds for studying how well machines can do sophisticated decision making. In recent years, machine learning has made dramatic advances with artificial agents reaching…

Hanabi has become a popular game for research when it comes to reinforcement learning (RL) as it is one of the few cooperative card games where you have incomplete knowledge of the entire environment, thus presenting a challenge for a RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nina Cohen , Kordel K. France

Effective multi-agent collaboration requires agents to infer the rationale behind others' actions, a capability rooted in Theory-of-Mind (ToM). While recent Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at logical inference, their ability to infer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Fangzhou Liang , Tianshi Zheng , Chunkit Chan , Yauwai Yim , Yangqiu Song

The card game Hanabi is considered a strong medium for the testing and development of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms, due to its cooperative nature, partial observability, limited communication and remarkable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-27 F. Bredell , H. A. Engelbrecht , J. C. Schoeman

In this paper, we formalise and implement an agent model for cooperation under imperfect information. It is based on Theory of Mind (the cognitive ability to understand the mental state of others) and abductive reasoning (the inference…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Nieves Montes , Nardine Osman , Carles Sierra

In recent years we have seen fast progress on a number of benchmark problems in AI, with modern methods achieving near or super human performance in Go, Poker and Dota. One common aspect of all of these challenges is that they are by design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Hengyuan Hu , Jakob N Foerster

The ability to model the mental states of others is crucial to human social intelligence, and can offer similar benefits to artificial agents with respect to the social dynamics induced in multi-agent settings. We present a method of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Ini Oguntola , Joseph Campbell , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara

Deep reinforcement learning has generated superhuman AI in competitive games such as Go and StarCraft. Can similar learning techniques create a superior AI teammate for human-machine collaborative games? Will humans prefer AI teammates that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ho Chit Siu , Jaime D. Pena , Edenna Chen , Yutai Zhou , Victor J. Lopez , Kyle Palko , Kimberlee C. Chang , Ross E. Allen

Cooperative reasoning under incomplete information remains challenging for both humans and multi-agent systems. The card game Hanabi embodies this challenge, requiring theory-of-mind reasoning and strategic communication. We benchmark 17…

We seek measurable properties of AI agents that make them better or worse teammates from the subjective perspective of human collaborators. Our experiments use the cooperative card game Hanabi -- a common benchmark for AI-teaming research.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ho Chit Siu , Jaime D. Peña , Yutai Zhou , Ross E. Allen

Hanabi is a cooperative game that challenges exist-ing AI techniques due to its focus on modeling the mental states ofother players to interpret and predict their behavior. While thereare agents that can achieve near-perfect scores in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Rodrigo Canaan , Xianbo Gao , Youjin Chung , Julian Togelius , Andy Nealen , Stefan Menzel

We propose a novel approach to explainable AI (XAI) based on the concept of "instruction" from neural networks. In this case study, we demonstrate how a superhuman neural network might instruct human trainees as an alternative to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Nicholas Kantack , Nina Cohen , Nathan Bos , Corey Lowman , James Everett , Timothy Endres

Reward function, as an incentive representation that recognizes humans' agency and rationalizes humans' actions, is particularly appealing for modeling human behavior in human-robot interaction. Inverse Reinforcement Learning is an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ran Tian , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Liting Sun

Theory of Mind is an essential ability of humans to infer the mental states of others. Here we provide a coherent summary of the potential, current progress, and problems of deep learning approaches to Theory of Mind. We highlight that many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jaan Aru , Aqeel Labash , Oriol Corcoll , Raul Vicente

Explainable reinforcement learning allows artificial agents to explain their behavior in a human-like manner aiming at non-expert end-users. An efficient alternative of creating explanations is to use an introspection-based method that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Angel Ayala , Francisco Cruz , Bruno Fernandes , Richard Dazeley

Recent superhuman results in games have largely been achieved in a variety of zero-sum settings, such as Go and Poker, in which agents need to compete against others. However, just like humans, real-world AI systems have to coordinate and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Adam Lerer , Hengyuan Hu , Jakob Foerster , Noam Brown

In pursuit of enhanced multi-agent collaboration, we analyze several on-policy deep reinforcement learning algorithms in the recently published Hanabi benchmark. Our research suggests a perhaps counter-intuitive finding, where Proximal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Bram Grooten , Jelle Wemmenhove , Maurice Poot , Jim Portegies

Reinforcement learning is a machine learning approach based on behavioral psychology. It is focused on learning agents that can acquire knowledge and learn to carry out new tasks by interacting with the environment. However, a problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hugo Muñoz , Ernesto Portugal , Angel Ayala , Bruno Fernandes , Francisco Cruz

Traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) systems can develop cooperative strategies through repeated interactions. However, these systems are unable to perform well on any other setting than the one they have been trained on,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Arjun V Sudhakar , Hadi Nekoei , Mathieu Reymond , Miao Liu , Janarthanan Rajendran , Sarath Chandar
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