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Open ad hoc teamwork is the problem of training a single agent to efficiently collaborate with an unknown group of teammates whose composition may change over time. A variable team composition creates challenges for the agent, such as the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Arrasy Rahman , Ignacio Carlucho , Niklas Höpner , Stefano V. Albrecht

Ad hoc teamwork problem describes situations where an agent has to cooperate with previously unseen agents to achieve a common goal. For an agent to be successful in these scenarios, it has to have a suitable cooperative skill. One could…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Rujikorn Charakorn , Poramate Manoonpong , Nat Dilokthanakul

Ad hoc teamwork refers to the problem of enabling an agent to collaborate with teammates without prior coordination. Data-driven methods represent the state of the art in ad hoc teamwork. They use a large labeled dataset of prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hasra Dodampegama , Mohan Sridharan

This paper introduces a formal definition of the setting of ad hoc teamwork under partial observability and proposes a first-principled model-based approach which relies only on prior knowledge and partial observations of the environment in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-04 João G. Ribeiroa , Cassandro Martinhoa , Alberto Sardinhaa , Francisco S. Melo

A significant element of human cooperative intelligence lies in our ability to identify opportunities for fruitful collaboration; and conversely to recognise when the task at hand is better pursued alone. Research on flexible cooperation in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Max Taylor-Davies , Neil Bramley , Christopher G. Lucas

Ad hoc teamwork is the challenging problem of designing an autonomous agent which can adapt quickly to collaborate with teammates without prior coordination mechanisms, including joint training. Prior work in this area has focused on closed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Arrasy Rahman , Niklas Höpner , Filippos Christianos , Stefano V. Albrecht

In this paper, we present a novel Bayesian online prediction algorithm for the problem setting of ad hoc teamwork under partial observability (ATPO), which enables on-the-fly collaboration with unknown teammates performing an unknown task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-11 João G. Ribeiro , Cassandro Martinho , Alberto Sardinha , Francisco S. Melo

AI agents deployed in assistive roles often have to collaborate with other agents (humans, AI systems) without prior coordination. Methods considered state of the art for such ad hoc teamwork often pursue a data-driven approach that needs a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hasra Dodampegama , Mohan Sridharan

Ad hoc teamwork is the research problem of designing agents that can collaborate with new teammates without prior coordination. This survey makes a two-fold contribution: First, it provides a structured description of the different facets…

We present an architecture for ad hoc teamwork, which refers to collaboration in a team of agents without prior coordination. State of the art methods for this problem often include a data-driven component that uses a long history of prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Hasra Dodampegama , Mohan Sridharan

Learning to cooperate with other agents is challenging when those agents also possess the ability to adapt to our own behavior. Practical and theoretical approaches to learning in cooperative settings typically assume that other agents'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Robert Loftin , Frans A. Oliehoek

Real-world multi-agent systems may require ad hoc teaming, where an agent must coordinate with other previously unseen teammates to solve a task in a zero-shot manner. Prior work often either selects a pretrained policy based on an inferred…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Rupal Nigam , Niket Parikh , Hamid Osooli , Mikihisa Yuasa , Jacob Heglund , Huy T. Tran

In open multi-agent environments, the agents may encounter unexpected teammates. Classical multi-agent learning approaches train agents that can only coordinate with seen teammates. Recent studies attempted to generate diverse teammates to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Lei Yuan , Lihe Li , Ziqian Zhang , Feng Chen , Tianyi Zhang , Cong Guan , Yang Yu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Ad hoc teamwork (AHT) requires agents to collaborate with previously unseen teammates, which is crucial for many real-world applications. The core challenge of AHT is to develop an ego agent that can predict and adapt to unknown teammates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hohei Chan , Xinzhi Zhang , Antao Xiang , Weinan Zhang , Mengchen Zhao

Planning for ad hoc teamwork is challenging because it involves agents collaborating without any prior coordination or communication. The focus is on principled methods for a single agent to cooperate with others. This motivates…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Muthukumaran Chandrasekaran , Prashant Doshi , Yifeng Zeng , Yingke Chen

With the advancements of artificial intelligence (AI), we're seeing more scenarios that require AI to work closely with other agents, whose goals and strategies might not be known beforehand. However, existing approaches for training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Zuyuan Zhang , Hanhan Zhou , Mahdi Imani , Taeyoung Lee , Tian Lan

Learning to collaborate with previously unseen partners is a fundamental generalization challenge in multi-agent learning, known as Ad Hoc Teamwork (AHT). Existing AHT approaches often adopt a two-stage pipeline, where first, a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Caroline Wang , Arrasy Rahman , Jiaxun Cui , Yoonchang Sung , Peter Stone

Training agents in cooperative settings offers the promise of AI agents able to interact effectively with humans (and other agents) in the real world. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has the potential to achieve this goal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaleh Zand , Jack Parker-Holder , Stephen J. Roberts

Team adaptation to new cooperative tasks is a hallmark of human intelligence, which has yet to be fully realized in learning agents. Previous work on multi-agent transfer learning accommodate teams of different sizes, heavily relying on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Rongjun Qin , Feng Chen , Tonghan Wang , Lei Yuan , Xiaoran Wu , Zongzhang Zhang , Chongjie Zhang , Yang Yu

This work proposes a framework that incorporates trust in an ad hoc teamwork scenario with human-agent teams, where an agent must collaborate with a human to perform a task. During the task, the agent must infer, through interactions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ana Carrasco
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