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Using past behaviors to guide future actions is essential for fostering cooperation in repeated social dilemmas. Traditional memory-based strategies that focus on recent interactions have yielded valuable insights into the evolution of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Feipeng Zhang , Bingxin Lin , Lei Zhou , Long Wang

In scenarios where a single player cannot control other players, cooperative AI is a recent technology that takes advantage of deep learning to assess whether cooperation might occur. One main difficulty of this approach is that it requires…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Xavier Marjou , Arnaud Braud , Gaël Fromentoux

Single-agent reinforcement learning algorithms in a multi-agent environment are inadequate for fostering cooperation. If intelligent agents are to interact and work together to solve complex problems, methods that counter non-cooperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Ted Fujimoto , Arthur Paul Pedersen

Ad hoc teamwork poses a challenging problem, requiring the design of an agent to collaborate with teammates without prior coordination or joint training. Open ad hoc teamwork (OAHT) further complicates this challenge by considering…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jianhong Wang , Yang Li , Yuan Zhang , Wei Pan , Samuel Kaski

This paper addresses the problem of Multi-robot Coverage Path Planning (MCPP) for unknown environments in the presence of robot failures. Unexpected robot failures can seriously degrade the performance of a robot team and in extreme cases…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Junnan Song , Shalabh Gupta

Cooperative game theory has diverse applications in contemporary artificial intelligence, including domains like interpretable machine learning, resource allocation, and collaborative decision-making. However, specifying a cooperative game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Filip Úradník , David Sychrovský , Jakub Černý , Martin Černý

Effective coordination among unfamiliar partners remains a major challenge in multi-agent systems. Existing approaches, such as population-based methods, improve robustness through diversity but often lack mechanisms for efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Huai-Chih Wang , Hsiang-Chun Chuang , Hsi-Chun Cheng , Dai-Jie Wu , Shao-Hua Sun

In the future, artificial learning agents are likely to become increasingly widespread in our society. They will interact with both other learning agents and humans in a variety of complex settings including social dilemmas. We argue that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tobias Baumann

We address the unsupervised learning of several interconnected problems in low-level vision: single view depth prediction, camera motion estimation, optical flow, and segmentation of a video into the static scene and moving regions. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Anurag Ranjan , Varun Jampani , Lukas Balles , Kihwan Kim , Deqing Sun , Jonas Wulff , Michael J. Black

To understand and collaborate with humans, robots must account for individual human traits, habits, and activities over time. However, most robotic assistants lack these abilities, as they primarily focus on predefined tasks in structured…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chenyang Ma , Kai Lu , Ruta Desai , Xavier Puig , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

While we would like agents that can coordinate with humans, current algorithms such as self-play and population-based training create agents that can coordinate with themselves. Agents that assume their partner to be optimal or similar to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Micah Carroll , Rohin Shah , Mark K. Ho , Thomas L. Griffiths , Sanjit A. Seshia , Pieter Abbeel , Anca Dragan

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) aims to develop agents that can collaborate effectively. However, most cooperative MARL methods overfit training agents, making learned policies not generalize well to unseen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Kanefumi Matsuyama , Kefan Su , Jiangxing Wang , Deheng Ye , Zongqing Lu

In an increasing number of AI scenarios, collaborations among different organizations or agents (e.g., human and robots, mobile units) are often essential to accomplish an organization-specific mission. However, to avoid leaking useful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xun Xian , Xinran Wang , Jie Ding , Reza Ghanadan

Many Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) agents fail to adapt properly to cooperating with agents trained with the same objectives but different seeds, algorithms, or other training differences. This is the problem of Zero-Shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Keenan Powell , Peihong Yu , Pratap Tokekar

Training agents that can coordinate zero-shot with humans is a key mission in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Current algorithms focus on training simulated human partner policies which are then used to train a Cooperator agent.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yancheng Liang , Daphne Chen , Abhishek Gupta , Simon S. Du , Natasha Jaques

Automatic generation of graphic designs has recently received considerable attention. However, the state-of-the-art approaches are complex and rely on proprietary datasets, which creates reproducibility barriers. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Naoto Inoue , Kento Masui , Wataru Shimoda , Kota Yamaguchi

In many multiagent scenarios, agents distribute resources, such as time or energy, among several tasks. Having completed their tasks and generated profits, task payoffs must be divided among the agents in some reasonable manner. Cooperative…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Yair Zick , Georgios Chalkiadakis , Edith Elkind , Evangelos Markakis

Federated learning (FL) is a promising distributed framework for collaborative artificial intelligence model training while protecting user privacy. A bootstrapping component that has attracted significant research attention is the design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Guangjing Huang , Xu Chen , Tao Ouyang , Qian Ma , Lin Chen , Junshan Zhang

Studies of human-robot interaction in dynamic and unstructured environments show that as more advanced robotic capabilities are deployed, the need for cooperative competencies to support collaboration with human problem-holders increases.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Martijn IJtsma , Salvatore Hargis

Zero-shot human-AI coordination is the training of an ego-agent to coordinate with humans without human data. Most studies on zero-shot human-AI coordination have focused on enhancing the ego-agent's coordination ability in a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Won-Sang You , Tae-Gwan Ha , Seo-Young Lee , Kyung-Joong Kim