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Modeling the interaction between traffic agents is a key issue in designing safe and non-conservative maneuvers in autonomous driving. This problem can be challenging when multi-modality and behavioral uncertainties are engaged. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhenmin Huang , Tong Li , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

This paper proposes to use probabilistic model checking to synthesize optimal robot policies in multi-tasking autonomous systems that are subject to human-robot interaction. Given the convincing empirical evidence that human behavior can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sebastian Junges , Nils Jansen , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Ufuk Topcu

In this study, we explore the application of game theory, in particular Stackelberg games, to address the issue of effective coordination strategy generation for heterogeneous robots with one-way communication. To that end, focusing on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Yuhan Zhao , Baichuan Huang , Jingjin Yu , Quanyan Zhu

Recent work on decision making and planning for autonomous driving has made use of game theoretic methods to model interaction between agents. We demonstrate that methods based on the Stackelberg game formulation of this problem are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Jack Geary , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Henry Gouk

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) optimizes strategic interactions in non-cooperative dynamic games, where agents have misaligned objectives. However, data-driven methods such as multi-agent policy gradients (MA-PG) often suffer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Jingqi Li , Gechen Qu , Jason J. Choi , Somayeh Sojoudi , Claire Tomlin

Two-player games such as board games have long been used as traditional benchmarks for reinforcement learning. This work revisits a policy optimization method with reverse Kullback-Leibler regularization and entropy regularization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kazuki Ota , Takayuki Osa , Motoki Omura , Tatsuya Harada

Despite increasing attention paid to the need for fast, scalable methods to analyze next-generation neuroscience data, comparatively little attention has been paid to the development of similar methods for behavioral analysis. Just as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-02 Shariq Iqbal , John Pearson

Enhancing simulation environments to replicate real-world driver behavior, i.e., more humanlike sim agents, is essential for developing autonomous vehicle technology. In the context of highway merging, previous works have studied the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dustin Holley , Jovin D'sa , Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub , Gibran Ali

LLM-driven multi-agent-based simulations have been gaining traction with applications in game-theoretic and social simulations. While most implementations seek to exploit or evaluate LLM-agentic reasoning, they often do so with a weak…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Vince Trencsenyi , Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis

Game-theoretic motion planners are a powerful tool for the control of interactive multi-agent robot systems. Indeed, contrary to predict-then-plan paradigms, game-theoretic planners do not ignore the interactive nature of the problem, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Makram Chahine , Roya Firoozi , Wei Xiao , Mac Schwager , Daniela Rus

Game-theoretic models are effective tools for modeling multi-agent interactions, especially when robots need to coordinate with humans. However, applying these models requires inferring their specifications from observed behaviors -- a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Max Muchen Sun , Pete Trautman , Todd Murphey

This paper proposes a method for modeling human driver interactions that relies on multi-output gaussian processes. The proposed method is developed as a refinement of the game theoretical hierarchical reasoning approach called "level-k…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Cem Okan Yaldiz , Yildiray Yildiz

Environments with multi-agent interactions often result a rich set of modalities of behavior between agents due to the inherent suboptimality of decision making processes when agents settle for satisfactory decisions. However, existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Oswin So , Kyle Stachowicz , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We present a novel algorithm for game-theoretic trajectory planning, tailored for settings in which agents can only observe one another in specific regions of the state space. Such problems arise naturally in the context of multi-robot…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil

Trajectory planning involving multi-agent interactions has been a long-standing challenge in the field of robotics, primarily burdened by the inherent yet intricate interactions among agents. While game-theoretic methods are widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Zhenmin Huang , Yusen Xie , Benshan Ma , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

Safe navigation in dense, urban driving environments remains an open problem and an active area of research. Unlike typical predict-then-plan approaches, game-theoretic planning considers how one vehicle's plan will affect the actions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Arec Jamgochian , Kunal Menda , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Game-theoretic solution concepts, such as the Nash equilibrium, have been key to finding stable joint actions in multi-player games. However, it has been shown that the dynamics of agents' interactions, even in simple two-player games with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Natalia Koliou , George Vouros

We study the robustness of an agent decision-making model in finite-population games, with a particular focus on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Regularized Learning (KLD-RL) model. Specifically, we examine how the model's parameters…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shinkyu Park , Lucas C. D. Bezerra

In human-robot teams, humans often start with an inaccurate model of the robot capabilities. As they interact with the robot, they infer the robot's capabilities and partially adapt to the robot, i.e., they might change their actions based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Stefanos Nikolaidis , Swaprava Nath , Ariel D. Procaccia , Siddhartha Srinivasa

This paper introduces two metrics (cycle-based and memory-based metrics), grounded on a dynamical game-theoretic solution concept called sink equilibrium, for the evaluation, ranking, and computation of policies in multi-agent learning. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Rui Yan , Xiaoming Duan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong , Jason R. Marden , Francesco Bullo