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Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) remains a major challenge in the cooperative AI field, which aims to learn an agent to cooperate with an unseen partner in training environments or even novel environments. In recent years, a popular ZSC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yin Gu , Qi Liu , Zhi Li , Kai Zhang

Zero-shot coordination (ZSC), the ability to adapt to a new partner in a cooperative task, is a critical component of human-compatible AI. While prior work has focused on training agents to cooperate on a single task, these specialized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kunal Jha , Wilka Carvalho , Yancheng Liang , Simon S. Du , Max Kleiman-Weiner , Natasha Jaques

Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) -- the ability to collaborate with unfamiliar partners -- is essential to making autonomous agents effective teammates. Existing ZSC methods evaluate coordination capabilities between two agents who have not…

Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) is a new cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) challenge that aims to train an ego agent to work with diverse, unseen partners during deployment. The significant difference between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xihuai Wang , Shao Zhang , Wenhao Zhang , Wentao Dong , Jingxiao Chen , Ying Wen , Weinan Zhang

Effective communication is an important skill for enabling information exchange in multi-agent settings and emergent communication is now a vibrant field of research, with common settings involving discrete cheap-talk channels. Since, by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Kalesha Bullard , Douwe Kiela , Franziska Meier , Joelle Pineau , Jakob Foerster

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

In many coordination problems, independently reasoning humans are able to discover mutually compatible policies. In contrast, independently trained self-play policies are often mutually incompatible. Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Johannes Treutlein , Michael Dennis , Caspar Oesterheld , Jakob Foerster

Generating agents that can achieve zero-shot coordination (ZSC) with unseen partners is a new challenge in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Recently, some studies have made progress in ZSC by exposing the agents to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ke Xue , Yutong Wang , Cong Guan , Lei Yuan , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Chao Qian , Yang Yu

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

Zero-shot coordination(ZSC), a key challenge in multi-agent game theory, has become a hot topic in reinforcement learning (RL) research recently, especially in complex evolving games. It focuses on the generalization ability of agents,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Bingyu Hui , Lebin Yu , Quanming Yao , Yunpeng Qu , Xudong Zhang , Jian Wang

It is a long-standing challenge to enable an intelligent agent to learn in one environment and generalize to an unseen environment without further data collection and finetuning. In this paper, we consider a zero shot generalization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Huazhe Xu , Boyuan Chen , Yang Gao , Trevor Darrell

Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) aims to enable agents to cooperate with independently trained partners without prior interaction, a key requirement for real-world multi-agent systems and human-AI collaboration. Existing approaches have largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mingu Kang , Sunwoo Lee , Yonghyeon Jo , Seungyul Han

Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms with Zero-Shot Coordination (ZSC) have gained significant attention in recent years. ZSC refers to the ability of agents to coordinate zero-shot (without additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hadi Nekoei , Xutong Zhao , Janarthanan Rajendran , Miao Liu , Sarath Chandar

Modern reinforcement learning (RL) systems capture deep truths about general, human problem-solving. In domains where new data can be simulated cheaply, these systems uncover sequential decision-making policies that far exceed the ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Scott Jeen

Learning accurate models of the physical world is required for a lot of robotic manipulation tasks. However, during manipulation, robots are expected to interact with unknown workpieces so that building predictive models which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenyu Zhang , Skyler Seto , Devesh K. Jha

AI agents hold the potential to transform everyday life by helping humans achieve their goals. To do this successfully, agents need to be able to coordinate with novel partners without prior interaction, a setting known as zero-shot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Tobias Gessler , Tin Dizdarevic , Ani Calinescu , Benjamin Ellis , Andrei Lupu , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

Zero-shot classification (ZSC) is the task of learning predictors for classes not seen during training. Although the different methods in the literature are evaluated using the same class splits, little is known about their stability under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Matías Molina , Jorge Sánchez

Zero-Shot Classification (ZSC) equips the learned model with the ability to recognize the visual instances from the novel classes via constructing the interactions between the visual and the semantic modalities. In contrast to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhong Ji , Xuejie Yu , Yunlong Yu , Yanwei Pang , Zhongfei Zhang

The study of zero-shot generalisation (ZSG) in deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to produce RL algorithms whose policies generalise well to novel unseen situations at deployment time, avoiding overfitting to their training environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Robert Kirk , Amy Zhang , Edward Grefenstette , Tim Rocktäschel

We present the task of "Social Rearrangement", consisting of cooperative everyday tasks like setting up the dinner table, tidying a house or unpacking groceries in a simulated multi-agent environment. In Social Rearrangement, two robots…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Andrew Szot , Unnat Jain , Dhruv Batra , Zsolt Kira , Ruta Desai , Akshara Rai
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