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What is a useful skill hierarchy for an autonomous agent? We propose an answer based on a graphical representation of how the interaction between an agent and its environment may unfold. Our approach uses modularity maximisation as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Joshua B. Evans , Özgür Şimşek

General purpose agents will require large repertoires of skills. Empowerment -- the maximum mutual information between skills and states -- provides a pathway for learning large collections of distinct skills, but mutual information is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Andrew Levy , Sreehari Rammohan , Alessandro Allievi , Scott Niekum , George Konidaris

Individual-intelligence research, from a neurological perspective, discusses the hierarchical layers of the cortex as a structure that performs conceptual abstraction and specification. This theory has been used to explain how motor-cortex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marko A. Rodriguez

Social hierarchy is important that can not be ignored in human socioeconomic activities and in the animal world. Here we incorporate this factor into the evolutionary game to see what impact it could have on the cooperation outcome. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-02 Rizhou Liang , Jiqiang Zhang , Guozhong Zheng , Li Chen

The biased interaction game described the operation of systems rooted in boundedly rational interactions under conditions of scarcity. The game explored the influence of bias and demonstrated how hierarchy and inequality are emergent system…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Phil Mercy , Martin Neil

Empirical evidence suggests that social structure may have changed from hierarchical to egalitarian and back along the evolutionary line of humans. We model a society subject to competing cognitive and social navigation constraints. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-15 Nestor Caticha , Rafael Calsaverini , Renato Vicente

Networks involved in information processing often have their nodes arranged hierarchically, with the majority of connections occurring in adjacent levels. However, despite being an intuitively appealing concept, the hierarchical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-02 Anand Pathak , Shakti N. Menon , Sitabhra Sinha

How do we predict others from patterns in their behavior and what are the computational constraints that limit this ability? We investigate these questions by modeling human behavior over repeated games of rock, paper, scissors from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Logan Cross , Erik Brockbank , Tobias Gerstenberg , Judith E. Fan , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Nick Haber

We show that, in large population games, decentralized information aggregation generically corrects for individual-level biases. This establishes a new testable aggregate efficiency benchmark where the behavior of boundedly rational agents…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-17 Florian Mudekereza

Here we present an agent-based model where agents interact with other agents by playing a hybrid of dictator and ultimatum games in a co-evolving social network. The basic assumption about the behaviour of the agents in both games is that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-20 Jan E. Snellman , Rafael Barrio , Kimmo Kaski

Knowledge silos emerge when structural properties of organizational interaction networks limit the diffusion of information. These structural barriers are known to take many forms at different scales - hubs in otherwise sparse…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-03 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Guillaume St-Onge , John Meluso , James Bagrow , Antoine Allard

Reading is a pervasive and cognitively demanding activity that underpins modern human culture. It is a prime instance of a class of tasks where eye movements are coordinated for the purpose of comprehension. Existing theories explain either…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yunpeng Bai , Xiaofu Jin , Shengdong Zhao , Antti Oulasvirta

Hierarchy is an efficient way for a group to organize, but often goes along with inequality that benefits leaders. To control despotic behaviour, followers can assess leaders decisions by aggregating their own and their neighbours…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-29 Cedric Perret , Simon T. Powers , Jeremy Pitt , Emma Hart

Hierarchical reinforcement learning is a promising approach to tackle long-horizon decision-making problems with sparse rewards. Unfortunately, most methods still decouple the lower-level skill acquisition process and the training of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Alexander C. Li , Carlos Florensa , Ignasi Clavera , Pieter Abbeel

Language is a uniquely human trait, conveying information efficiently by organizing word sequences in sentences into hierarchical structures. A central question persists: Why is human language hierarchical? In this study, we show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Luyao Chen , Weibo Gao , Junjie Wu , Jinshan Wu , Angela D. Friederici

Community organization permeates both social and biological complex systems. To study its interplay with behavior emergence, we model mobile structured populations with multiplayer interactions. We derive general analytical methods for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-28 Diogo L. Pires , Mark Broom

Goal-driven selective attention (GDSA) is a remarkable function that allows the complex dynamical networks of the brain to support coherent perception and cognition. Part I of this two-part paper proposes a new control-theoretic framework,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Erfan Nozari , Jorge Cortés

Model checking strategic abilities was successfully developed and applied since the early 2000s to ensure properties in Multi-Agent System. In this paper, we introduce the notion of capacities giving different abilities to an agent. This…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Gabriel Ballot , Vadim Malvone , Jean Leneutre , Youssef Laarouchi

Coordination is a desirable feature in many multi-agent systems such as robotic and socioeconomic networks. We consider a task allocation problem as a binary networked coordination game over an undirected regular graph. Each agent in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yifei Zhang , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

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