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Robustly cooperating with unseen agents and human partners presents significant challenges due to the diverse cooperative conventions these partners may adopt. Existing Ad Hoc Teamwork (AHT) methods address this challenge by training an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Arrasy Rahman , Jiaxun Cui , Peter Stone

Ad hoc teamwork (AHT) is the challenge of designing a robust learner agent that effectively collaborates with unknown teammates without prior coordination mechanisms. Early approaches address the AHT challenge by training the learner with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Arrasy Rahman , Elliot Fosong , Ignacio Carlucho , Stefano V. Albrecht

Multi-armed adversarial attacks, in which multiple algorithms and objective loss functions are simultaneously used at evaluation time, have been shown to be highly successful in fooling state-of-the-art adversarial examples detectors while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Federica Granese , Marco Romanelli , Siddharth Garg , Pablo Piantanida

We study the Active Simple Hypothesis Testing (ASHT) problem, a simpler variant of the Fixed Budget Best Arm Identification problem. In this work, we provide novel game theoretic formulation of the upper bounds of the ASHT problem. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sushant Vijayan

Ad hoc teamwork (AHT) requires agents to collaborate with previously unseen teammates, which is crucial for many real-world applications. The core challenge of AHT is to develop an ego agent that can predict and adapt to unknown teammates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hohei Chan , Xinzhi Zhang , Antao Xiang , Weinan Zhang , Mengchen Zhao

In this paper, we present a novel Bayesian online prediction algorithm for the problem setting of ad hoc teamwork under partial observability (ATPO), which enables on-the-fly collaboration with unknown teammates performing an unknown task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-11 João G. Ribeiro , Cassandro Martinho , Alberto Sardinha , Francisco S. Melo

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARl) has achieved strong results in cooperative tasks but typically assumes fixed, fully controlled teams. Ad hoc teamwork (AHT) relaxes this by allowing collaboration with unknown partners, yet existing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Beiwen Zhang , Yongheng Liang , Hejun Wu

This paper proposes RecBayes, a novel approach for ad hoc teamwork under partial observability, a setting where agents are deployed on-the-fly to environments where pre-existing teams operate, that never requires, at any stage, access to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-23 João G. Ribeiro , Yaniv Oren , Alberto Sardinha , Matthijs Spaan , Francisco S. Melo

N-agent ad hoc teamwork (NAHT) is a newly introduced challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning, where controlled subteams of varying sizes must dynamically collaborate with varying numbers and types of unknown teammates without…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Caroline Wang , Di Yang Shi , Elad Liebman , Ishan Durugkar , Arrasy Rahman , Peter Stone

While the Bayesian decision-theoretic framework offers an elegant solution to the problem of decision making under uncertainty, one question is how to appropriately select the prior distribution. One idea is to employ a worst-case prior.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Thomas Kleine Buening , Christos Dimitrakakis , Hannes Eriksson , Divya Grover , Emilio Jorge

This study investigates minimax and Bayes optimal strategies for fixed-budget best-arm identification. We consider an adaptive procedure consisting of a sampling phase followed by a recommendation phase, and we design an adaptive experiment…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-05 Masahiro Kato

Advances in ad hoc teamwork have the potential to create agents that collaborate robustly in real-world applications. Agents deployed in the real world, however, are vulnerable to adversaries with the intent to subvert them. There has been…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Ted Fujimoto , Samrat Chatterjee , Auroop Ganguly

A key goal of ad hoc teamwork is to develop a learning agent that cooperates with unknown teams, without resorting to any pre-coordination protocol. Despite a vast number of ad hoc teamwork algorithms in the literature, most of them cannot…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Alexandre Neves , Alberto Sardinha

Ad hoc teamwork requires an agent to cooperate with unknown teammates without prior coordination. Many works propose to abstract teammate instances into high-level representation of types and then pre-train the best response for each type.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Dong Xing , Pengjie Gu , Qian Zheng , Xinrun Wang , Shanqi Liu , Longtao Zheng , Bo An , Gang Pan

In the field of Artificial Intelligence, traditional approaches to choosing moves in games involve the we of the minimax algorithm. However, recent research results indicate that minimizing may not always be the best approach. In this paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Dana Nau , Paul Purdom , Chun-Hung Tzeng

This work proposes a framework that incorporates trust in an ad hoc teamwork scenario with human-agent teams, where an agent must collaborate with a human to perform a task. During the task, the agent must infer, through interactions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ana Carrasco

Ad hoc teamwork refers to the problem of enabling an agent to collaborate with teammates without prior coordination. Data-driven methods represent the state of the art in ad hoc teamwork. They use a large labeled dataset of prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hasra Dodampegama , Mohan Sridharan

Real-world multi-agent systems may require ad hoc teaming, where an agent must coordinate with other previously unseen teammates to solve a task in a zero-shot manner. Prior work often either selects a pretrained policy based on an inferred…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Rupal Nigam , Niket Parikh , Hamid Osooli , Mikihisa Yuasa , Jacob Heglund , Huy T. Tran

Current approaches to learning cooperative multi-agent behaviors assume relatively restrictive settings. In standard fully cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, the learning algorithm controls $\textit{all}$ agents in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Caroline Wang , Arrasy Rahman , Ishan Durugkar , Elad Liebman , Peter Stone

We present an architecture for ad hoc teamwork, which refers to collaboration in a team of agents without prior coordination. State of the art methods for this problem often include a data-driven component that uses a long history of prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Hasra Dodampegama , Mohan Sridharan
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