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Are world models a necessary ingredient for flexible, goal-directed behaviour, or is model-free learning sufficient? We provide a formal answer to this question, showing that any agent capable of generalizing to multi-step goal-directed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jonathan Richens , David Abel , Alexis Bellot , Tom Everitt

While various multi-agent reinforcement learning methods have been proposed in cooperative settings, few works investigate how self-interested learning agents achieve mutual coordination in decentralized general-sum games and generalize…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Ziyi Liu , Xian Guo , Yongchun Fang

Building embodied AI systems that can follow arbitrary language instructions in any 3D environment is a key challenge for creating general AI. Accomplishing this goal requires learning to ground language in perception and embodied actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 SIMA Team , Maria Abi Raad , Arun Ahuja , Catarina Barros , Frederic Besse , Andrew Bolt , Adrian Bolton , Bethanie Brownfield , Gavin Buttimore , Max Cant , Sarah Chakera , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Jeff Clune , Adrian Collister , Vikki Copeman , Alex Cullum , Ishita Dasgupta , Dario de Cesare , Julia Di Trapani , Yani Donchev , Emma Dunleavy , Martin Engelcke , Ryan Faulkner , Frankie Garcia , Charles Gbadamosi , Zhitao Gong , Lucy Gonzales , Kshitij Gupta , Karol Gregor , Arne Olav Hallingstad , Tim Harley , Sam Haves , Felix Hill , Ed Hirst , Drew A. Hudson , Jony Hudson , Steph Hughes-Fitt , Danilo J. Rezende , Mimi Jasarevic , Laura Kampis , Rosemary Ke , Thomas Keck , Junkyung Kim , Oscar Knagg , Kavya Kopparapu , Rory Lawton , Andrew Lampinen , Shane Legg , Alexander Lerchner , Marjorie Limont , Yulan Liu , Maria Loks-Thompson , Joseph Marino , Kathryn Martin Cussons , Loic Matthey , Siobhan Mcloughlin , Piermaria Mendolicchio , Hamza Merzic , Anna Mitenkova , Alexandre Moufarek , Valeria Oliveira , Yanko Oliveira , Hannah Openshaw , Renke Pan , Aneesh Pappu , Alex Platonov , Ollie Purkiss , David Reichert , John Reid , Pierre Harvey Richemond , Tyson Roberts , Giles Ruscoe , Jaume Sanchez Elias , Tasha Sandars , Daniel P. Sawyer , Tim Scholtes , Guy Simmons , Daniel Slater , Hubert Soyer , Heiko Strathmann , Peter Stys , Allison C. Tam , Denis Teplyashin , Tayfun Terzi , Davide Vercelli , Bojan Vujatovic , Marcus Wainwright , Jane X. Wang , Zhengdong Wang , Daan Wierstra , Duncan Williams , Nathaniel Wong , Sarah York , Nick Young

Recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) have demonstrated success in numerous challenging domains and environments, but typically require specialized models for each task. In this work, we propose a coherent methodology…

We consider a multi-agent reinforcement learning problem where each agent seeks to maximize a shared reward while interacting with other agents, and they may or may not be able to communicate. Typically the agents do not have access to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Alex Tong Lin , Mark J. Debord , Katia Estabridis , Gary Hewer , Guido Montufar , Stanley Osher

Solving hard-exploration environments in an important challenge in Reinforcement Learning. Several approaches have been proposed and studied, such as Intrinsic Motivation, co-evolution of agents and tasks, and multi-agent competition. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Andrea Fanti

In typical reinforcement learning (RL), the environment is assumed given and the goal of the learning is to identify an optimal policy for the agent taking actions through its interactions with the environment. In this paper, we extend this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Haifeng Zhang , Jun Wang , Zhiming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Ying Wen , Yong Yu , Wenxin Li

In Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning, an agent learns to achieve multiple goals with a goal-conditioned policy. During learning, the agent first collects the trajectories into a replay buffer, and later these trajectories are selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Rui Zhao , Xudong Sun , Volker Tresp

Addressing the question of how to achieve optimal decision-making under risk and uncertainty is crucial for enhancing the capabilities of artificial agents that collaborate with or support humans. In this work, we address this question in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Nicole Orzan , Erman Acar , Davide Grossi , Patrick Mannion , Roxana Rădulescu

We consider the problem of how to design large decentralized multi-agent systems (MAS's) in an automated fashion, with little or no hand-tuning. Our approach has each agent run a reinforcement learning algorithm. This converts the problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David H. Wolpert , Kevin R. Wheeler , Kagan Tumer

Progress in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) requires challenging benchmarks that assess the limits of current methods. However, existing benchmarks often target narrow short-horizon challenges that do not adequately stress the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Bassel Al Omari , Michael Matthews , Alexander Rutherford , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

The challenge of developing powerful and general Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents has received increasing attention in recent years. Much of this effort has focused on the single-agent setting, in which an agent maximizes a predefined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jiachen Yang , Ang Li , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Peter Sunehag , Edward Hughes , Hongyuan Zha

Few multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) research on Google Research Football (GRF) focus on the 11v11 multi-agent full-game scenario and to the best of our knowledge, no open benchmark on this scenario has been released to the public.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yan Song , He Jiang , Zheng Tian , Haifeng Zhang , Yingping Zhang , Jiangcheng Zhu , Zonghong Dai , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown impressive results in a variety of domains, learning directly from high-dimensional sensory streams. However, when neural networks are trained in a fixed environment, such as a single level in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Niels Justesen , Ruben Rodriguez Torrado , Philip Bontrager , Ahmed Khalifa , Julian Togelius , Sebastian Risi

In this paper, we consider the recent trend of evaluating progress on reinforcement learning technology by using text-based environments and games as evaluation environments. This reliance on text brings advances in natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Keerthiram Murugesan , Mattia Atzeni , Pushkar Shukla , Mrinmaya Sachan , Pavan Kapanipathi , Kartik Talamadupula

This survey explores the development of meta-thinking capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) from a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) perspective. Meta-thinking self-reflection, assessment, and control of thinking processes is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ahsan Bilal , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Muhammad Umer , Muhammad Awais Khan Bangash , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

We present a new general board game (GBG) playing and learning framework. GBG defines the common interfaces for board games, game states and their AI agents. It allows one to run competitions of different agents on different games. It…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Wolfgang Konen

Learning models of artificial intelligence can nowadays perform very well on a large variety of tasks. However, in practice different task environments are best handled by different learning models, rather than a single, universal,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Adi Makmal , Alexey A. Melnikov , Vedran Dunjko , Hans J. Briegel

A challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning is to be able to generalize over intractable state-action spaces. Inspired from Tesseract [Mahajan et al., 2021], this position paper investigates generalisation in state-action space over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Pascal Van Der Vaart , Anuj Mahajan , Shimon Whiteson

Recently, large language model based (LLM-based) agents have been widely applied across various fields. As a critical part, their memory capabilities have captured significant interest from both industrial and academic communities. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zeyu Zhang , Quanyu Dai , Xu Chen , Rui Li , Zhongyang Li , Zhenhua Dong