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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in processing extensive offline datasets. However, they often face challenges in acquiring and integrating complex, knowledge online. Traditional AI training paradigms,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sabrina Patania , Luca Annese , Cansu Koyuturk , Azzurra Ruggeri , Dimitri Ognibene

Building open-ended agents that can autonomously discover a diversity of behaviours is one of the long-standing goals of artificial intelligence. This challenge can be studied in the framework of autotelic RL agents, i.e. agents that learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Laetitia Teodorescu , Xingdi Yuan , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

This work proposes a decentralized architecture, where individual agents aim at solving a classification problem while observing streaming features of different dimensions and arising from possibly different distributions. In the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Virginia Bordignon , Stefan Vlaski , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated notable success in post-training large language models (LLMs) as agents for tasks such as computer use, tool calling, and coding. However, exploration remains a central challenge in RL for LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Andrew Szot , Michael Kirchhof , Omar Attia , Alexander Toshev

In this paper, we propose a new framework for multi-agent collaborative exploration of unknown environments. The proposed method combines state-of-the-art algorithms in mapping, safe corridor generation and multi-agent planning. It first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Charbel Toumieh , Alain Lambert

Designing agents, capable of learning autonomously a wide range of skills is critical in order to increase the scope of reinforcement learning. It will both increase the diversity of learned skills and reduce the burden of manually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Grgur Kovač , Adrien Laversanne-Finot , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

The remarkable progress of vision-language models (VLMs) has enabled GUI agents to interact with computers in a human-like manner. Yet real-world computer-use tasks remain difficult due to long-horizon workflows, diverse interfaces, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Sibo Zhu , Wenyi Wu , Kun Zhou , Stephen Wang , Biwei Huang

We describe MELEE, a meta-learning algorithm for learning a good exploration policy in the interactive contextual bandit setting. Here, an algorithm must take actions based on contexts, and learn based only on a reward signal from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Amr Sharaf , Hal Daumé

Self-improvement requires robotic systems to initially learn from human-provided data and then gradually enhance their capabilities through interaction with the environment. This is similar to how humans improve their skills through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yang Jin , Jun Lv , Wenye Yu , Hongjie Fang , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

Developing agents that can quickly adapt their behavior to new tasks remains a challenge. Meta-learning has been applied to this problem, but previous methods require either specifying a reward function which can be tedious or providing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Mark Woodward , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

In numerous artificial intelligence applications, the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents are imperative for the successful attainment of target objectives. To enhance coordination among these agents, a distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Shengchao Hu , Li Shen , Ya Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems provide convenient and relevant ways to analyze, model, and simulate complex systems composed of a large number of entities that interact at different levels of abstraction. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ahmad Esmaeili , John C. Gallagher , John A. Springer , Eric T. Matson

We consider multi-armed bandit problems in social groups wherein each individual has bounded memory and shares the common goal of learning the best arm/option. We say an individual learns the best option if eventually (as $t\to \infty$) it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Lili Su , Martin Zubeldia , Nancy Lynch

Embodied agents operating in human spaces must be able to master how their environment works: what objects can the agent use, and how can it use them? We introduce a reinforcement learning approach for exploration for interaction, whereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tushar Nagarajan , Kristen Grauman

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of autotelic Reinforcement Learning (RL), emphasizing the role of intrinsic motivations in the open-ended formation of skill repertoires. We delineate the distinctions between knowledge-based and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Prakhar Srivastava , Jasmeet Singh

Designing agent that can autonomously discover and learn a diversity of structures and skills in unknown changing environments is key for lifelong machine learning. A central challenge is how to learn incrementally representations in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Mayalen Etcheverry , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Chris Reinke

Building autonomous machines that can explore open-ended environments, discover possible interactions and build repertoires of skills is a general objective of artificial intelligence. Developmental approaches argue that this can only be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Cédric Colas , Tristan Karch , Olivier Sigaud , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

We investigate the benefits of heterogeneity in multi-agent explore-exploit decision making where the goal of the agents is to maximize cumulative group reward. To do so we study a class of distributed stochastic bandit problems in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Udari Madhushani , Naomi Leonard

Recent advances in mobile GUI agents have shown strong potential for automating mobile tasks, but most effective systems still depend on large vision-language models for screenshot understanding and long-horizon planning. Small GUI agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuxiang Chai , Han Xiao , Xinyu Fu , Jinpeng Chen , Rui Liu , Hongsheng Li

Recent works have proven that intricate cooperative behaviors can emerge in agents trained using meta reinforcement learning on open ended task distributions using self-play. While the results are impressive, we argue that self-play and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Richard Bornemann , Gautier Hamon , Eleni Nisioti , Clément Moulin-Frier