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Learning and adaptation play great role in emergent socio-economic phenomena. Complex dynamics has been previously found in the systems of multiple learning agents interacting via a simple game. Meanwhile, the single agent adaptation is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-18 Arkady Zgonnikov , Ihor Lubashevsky

A common vision from science fiction is that robots will one day inhabit our physical spaces, sense the world as we do, assist our physical labours, and communicate with us through natural language. Here we study how to design artificial…

Building human-like agent, which aims to learn and think like human intelligence, has long been an important research topic in AI. To train and test human-like agents, we need an environment that imposes the agent to rich multimodal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kwanyoung Park , Hyunseok Oh , Youngki Lee

Existing multimodal reasoning models and frameworks suffer from fundamental architectural limitations: most lack the human-like ability to autonomously explore diverse reasoning pathways-whether in direct inference, tool-driven visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yifu Guo , Zishan Xu , Zhiyuan Yao , Yuquan Lu , Jiaye Lin , Sen Hu , Zhenheng Tang , Huacan Wang , Ronghao Chen

We describe GNOME (Generating Novelty in Open-world Multi-agent Environments), an experimental platform that is designed to test the effectiveness of multi-agent AI systems when faced with \emph{novelty}. GNOME separates the development of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Mayank Kejriwal , Shilpa Thomas

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently shown impressive performance in complex game AI and robotics tasks. To a large extent, this is thanks to the availability of simulated environments such as OpenAI Gym, Atari Learning Environment, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Rajkumar Ramamurthy , Rafet Sifa , Christian Bauckhage

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool for economic research, enabling large-scale simulation and policy optimization. However, applying AI effectively requires simulation platforms for scalable training and evaluation-yet…

General Economics · Economics 2025-06-17 Qirui Mi , Qipeng Yang , Zijun Fan , Wentian Fan , Heyang Ma , Chengdong Ma , Siyu Xia , Bo An , Jun Wang , Haifeng Zhang

Understanding and reasoning about physics is an important ability of intelligent agents. We develop the PHYRE benchmark for physical reasoning that contains a set of simple classical mechanics puzzles in a 2D physical environment. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Anton Bakhtin , Laurens van der Maaten , Justin Johnson , Laura Gustafson , Ross Girshick

Planning agents are ill-equipped to act in novel situations in which their domain model no longer accurately represents the world. We introduce an approach for such agents operating in open worlds that detects the presence of novelties and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Wiktor Piotrowski , Roni Stern , Yoni Sher , Jacob Le , Matthew Klenk , Johan deKleer , Shiwali Mohan

Although numerous strategies have recently been proposed to enhance the autonomous interaction capabilities of multimodal agents in graphical user interface (GUI), their reliability remains limited when faced with complex or out-of-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Pengzhou Cheng , Lingzhong Dong , Zeng Wu , Zongru Wu , Xiangru Tang , Chengwei Qin , Zhuosheng Zhang , Gongshen Liu

In order for artificial agents to successfully perform tasks in changing environments, they must be able to both detect and adapt to novelty. However, visual novelty detection research often only evaluates on repurposed datasets such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Patrick Feeney , Sarah Schneider , Panagiotis Lymperopoulos , Li-Ping Liu , Matthias Scheutz , Michael C. Hughes

Multiphysics phenomena, the coupling effects involving different aspects of physics laws, are pervasive in the real world and can often be encountered when performing everyday household tasks. Intelligent agents which seek to assist or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Haoyuan Fu , Wenqiang Xu , Ruolin Ye , Han Xue , Zhenjun Yu , Tutian Tang , Yutong Li , Wenxin Du , Jieyi Zhang , Cewu Lu

Human intelligence exhibits a remarkable capacity for rapid adaptation and effective problem-solving in novel and unfamiliar contexts. We argue that this profound adaptability is fundamentally linked to the efficient construction and…

Model-based reasoning agents are ill-equipped to act in novel situations in which their model of the environment no longer sufficiently represents the world. We propose HYDRA - a framework for designing model-based agents operating in mixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Shiwali Mohan , Wiktor Piotrowski , Roni Stern , Sachin Grover , Sookyung Kim , Jacob Le , Johan De Kleer

Embodied AI is a recent research area that aims at creating intelligent agents that can move and operate inside an environment. Existing approaches in this field demand the agents to act in completely new and unexplored scenes. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Federico Landi , Roberto Bigazzi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Autonomous AI is no longer a hard-to-reach concept, it enables the agents to move beyond executing tasks to independently addressing complex problems, adapting to change while handling the uncertainty of the environment. However, what makes…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-12 Zinan Liu , Haoran Li , Jingyi Lu , Gaoyuan Ma , Xu Hong , Giovanni Iacca , Arvind Kumar , Shaojun Tang , Lin Wang

The ability for AI agents to "think with images" requires a sophisticated blend of reasoning and perception. However, current open multimodal agents still largely fall short on the reasoning aspect crucial for real-world tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaican Li , Lewei Yao , Jiannan Wu , Tiezheng Yu , Jierun Chen , Haoli Bai , Lu Hou , Lanqing Hong , Wei Zhang , Nevin L. Zhang

We propose the Intuitive Reasoning Network (IRENE) - a novel neural model for intuitive psychological reasoning about agents' goals, preferences, and actions that can generalise previous experiences to new situations. IRENE combines a graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Matteo Bortoletto , Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

As general-purpose tools, Large Language Models (LLMs) must often reason about everyday physical environments. In a question-and-answer capacity, understanding the interactions of physical objects may be necessary to give appropriate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Matteo G. Mecattaf , Ben Slater , Marko Tešić , Jonathan Prunty , Konstantinos Voudouris , Lucy G. Cheke

Intelligent organisms can solve truly novel problems which they have never encountered before, either in their lifetime or their evolution. An important component of this capacity is the ability to ``think'', that is, to mentally manipulate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Thomas Miconi , Kevin McKee , Yicong Zheng , Jed McCaleb