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For reinforcement learning agents to be deployed in high-risk settings, they must achieve a high level of robustness to unfamiliar scenarios. One method for improving robustness is unsupervised environment design (UED), a suite of methods…

Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) has emerged as a promising approach to developing general-purpose agents through automated curriculum generation. Popular UED methods focus on Open-Endedness, where teacher algorithms rely on stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dexun Li , Sidney Tio , Pradeep Varakantham

A key challenge in training generally-capable agents is the design of training tasks that facilitate broad generalization and robustness to environment variations. This challenge motivates the problem setting of Unsupervised Environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Ishita Mediratta , Minqi Jiang , Jack Parker-Holder , Michael Dennis , Eugene Vinitsky , Tim Rocktäschel

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents may successfully generalize to new settings if trained on an appropriately diverse set of environment and task configurations. Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) is a promising self-supervised RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Minqi Jiang , Michael Dennis , Jack Parker-Holder , Jakob Foerster , Edward Grefenstette , Tim Rocktäschel

Zero-shot human-AI coordination is the training of an ego-agent to coordinate with humans without human data. Most studies on zero-shot human-AI coordination have focused on enhancing the ego-agent's coordination ability in a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Won-Sang You , Tae-Gwan Ha , Seo-Young Lee , Kyung-Joong Kim

Training general agents to follow complex instructions (tasks) in intricate environments (levels) remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning. Random sampling of task-level pairs often produces unsolvable combinations, highlighting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Daniel Furelos-Blanco , Charles Pert , Frederik Kelbel , Alex F. Spies , Alessandra Russo , Michael Dennis

Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) is a paradigm for automatically generating a curriculum of training environments, enabling agents trained in these environments to develop general capabilities, i.e., achieving good zero-shot transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Dexun Li , Pradeep Varakantham

Recent work on designing an appropriate distribution of environments has shown promise for training effective generally capable agents. Its success is partly because of a form of adaptive curriculum learning that generates environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Dexun Li , Wenjun Li , Pradeep Varakantham

In order for agents trained by deep reinforcement learning to work alongside humans in realistic settings, we will need to ensure that the agents are \emph{robust}. Since the real world is very diverse, and human behavior often changes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Paul Knott , Micah Carroll , Sam Devlin , Kamil Ciosek , Katja Hofmann , A. D. Dragan , Rohin Shah

A wide range of reinforcement learning (RL) problems - including robustness, transfer learning, unsupervised RL, and emergent complexity - require specifying a distribution of tasks or environments in which a policy will be trained.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Michael Dennis , Natasha Jaques , Eugene Vinitsky , Alexandre Bayen , Stuart Russell , Andrew Critch , Sergey Levine

AI agents deployed in assistive roles often have to collaborate with other agents (humans, AI systems) without prior coordination. Methods considered state of the art for such ad hoc teamwork often pursue a data-driven approach that needs a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hasra Dodampegama , Mohan Sridharan

What data or environments to use for training to improve downstream performance is a longstanding and very topical question in reinforcement learning. In particular, Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) methods have gained recent attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Alexander Rutherford , Michael Beukman , Timon Willi , Bruno Lacerda , Nick Hawes , Jakob Foerster

We introduce the Overcooked Generalisation Challenge (OGC) - a new benchmark for evaluating reinforcement learning (RL) agents on their ability to cooperate with unknown partners in unfamiliar environments. Existing work typically evaluated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Constantin Ruhdorfer , Matteo Bortoletto , Anna Penzkofer , Andreas Bulling

Open-ended learning methods that automatically generate a curriculum of increasingly challenging tasks serve as a promising avenue toward generally capable reinforcement learning agents. Existing methods adapt curricula independently over…

Zero-shot human-AI coordination holds the promise of collaborating with humans without human data. Prevailing methods try to train the ego agent with a population of partners via self-play. However, these methods suffer from two problems:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xingzhou Lou , Jiaxian Guo , Junge Zhang , Jun Wang , Kaiqi Huang , Yali Du

Controlling artificial agents from visual sensory data is an arduous task. Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can succeed but require large amounts of interactions between the agent and the environment. To alleviate the issue,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Sai Rajeswar , Pietro Mazzaglia , Tim Verbelen , Alexandre Piché , Bart Dhoedt , Aaron Courville , Alexandre Lacoste

Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) offers a promising paradigm for improving reinforcement learning generalization by adaptively shaping training environments, but it requires reliable environment evaluation to remain effective. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fang Yuan , Quanjun Yin , Siqi Shen , Yuxiang Xie , Junqiang Yang , Long Qin , Junjie Zeng , Qinglun Li

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

We present a deployment friendly, fast bottom-up framework for multi-person 3D human pose estimation. We adopt a novel neural representation of multi-person 3D pose which unifies the position of person instances with their corresponding 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Ambareesh Revanur , Govind Vitthal Waghmare , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , R. Venkatesh Babu

Recent advances in person re-identification have demonstrated enhanced discriminability, especially with supervised learning or transfer learning. However, since the data requirements---including the degree of data curations---are becoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Kshitij Nikhal , Benjamin S. Riggan
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