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Developing autonomous agents that can strategize and cooperate with humans under information asymmetry is challenging without effective communication in natural language. We introduce a shared-control game, where two players collectively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shenghui Chen , Daniel Fried , Ufuk Topcu

The Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) is a popular platform for evaluating reinforcement learning agents. Much of the appeal comes from the fact that Atari games demonstrate aspects of competency we expect from an intelligent agent and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Kenny Young , Tian Tian

A central task of artificial intelligence is the design of artificial agents that act towards specified goals in partially observed environments. Since such environments frequently include interaction over time with other agents with their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Miroslav Dudik , Geoffrey Gordon

Extensive-form games are a common model for multiagent interactions with imperfect information. In two-player zero-sum games, the typical solution concept is a Nash equilibrium over the unconstrained strategy set for each player. In many…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Trevor Davis , Kevin Waugh , Michael Bowling

With recent development of artificial intelligence, it is more common to adopt AI agents in economic activities. This paper explores the economic actions of agents, including human agents and AI agents, in an economic game of trading…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-03 Huan Cai , Ziqing Lu , Catherine Xu , Weiyu Xu , Jie Zheng

The largest experiments in machine learning now require resources far beyond the budget of all but a few institutions. Fortunately, it has recently been shown that the results of these huge experiments can often be extrapolated from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Andy L. Jones

A natural goal in multiagent learning besides finding equilibria is to learn rationalizable behavior, where players learn to avoid iteratively dominated actions. However, even in the basic setting of multiplayer general-sum games, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yuanhao Wang , Dingwen Kong , Yu Bai , Chi Jin

Human-like agents are an increasingly important topic in games and beyond. Believable non-player characters enhance the gaming experience by improving immersion and providing entertainment. They also offer players the opportunity to engage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Maciej Swiechowski , Dominik Slezak

We address the online linear optimization problem when the actions of the forecaster are represented by binary vectors. Our goal is to understand the magnitude of the minimax regret for the worst possible set of actions. We study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-05-25 Jean-Yves Audibert , Sebastien Bubeck , Gabor Lugosi

This paper considers minimax optimization $\min_x \max_y f(x, y)$ in the challenging setting where $f$ can be both nonconvex in $x$ and nonconcave in $y$. Though such optimization problems arise in many machine learning paradigms including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Tanner Fiez , Chi Jin , Praneeth Netrapalli , Lillian J. Ratliff

In 2021 the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory held an internal challenge to develop artificially intelligent (AI) agents that could excel at the collaborative card game Hanabi. Agents were evaluated on their ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Nicholas Kantack

This work investigates the adaptation of the AlphaZero reinforcement learning algorithm to Tablut, an asymmetric historical board game featuring unequal piece counts and distinct player objectives (king capture versus king escape). While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tõnis Lees , Tambet Matiisen

This paper is concerned with evaluating different multiagent learning (MAL) algorithms in problems where individual agents may be heterogenous, in the sense of utilizing different learning strategies, without the opportunity for prior…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Stefano V. Albrecht , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

We consider regret minimization in repeated games with a very large number of actions. Such games are inherent in the setting of AI Safety via Debate \cite{irving2018ai}, and more generally games whose actions are language-based. Existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Xinyi Chen , Angelica Chen , Dean Foster , Elad Hazan

There are an increasing number of domains in which artificial intelligence (AI) systems both surpass human ability and accurately model human behavior. This introduces the possibility of algorithmically-informed teaching in these domains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Zhenwei Tang , Difan Jiao , Reid McIlroy-Young , Jon Kleinberg , Siddhartha Sen , Ashton Anderson

An abundance of recent impossibility results establish that regret minimization in Markov games with adversarial opponents is both statistically and computationally intractable. Nevertheless, none of these results preclude the possibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Liad Erez , Tal Lancewicki , Uri Sherman , Tomer Koren , Yishay Mansour

This paper introduces ZeusAI, an artificial intelligence system developed to play the board game 7 Wonders Duel. Inspired by the AlphaZero reinforcement learning algorithm, ZeusAI relies on a combination of Monte Carlo Tree Search and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Giovanni Paolini , Lorenzo Moreschini , Francesco Veneziano , Alessandro Iraci

Artificial Intelligence is becoming instrumental in a variety of applications. Games serve as a good breeding ground for trying and testing these algorithms in a sandbox with simpler constraints in comparison to real life. In this project,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Anand Venkatesan , Atishay Jain , Rakesh Grewal

Optimizing artificial intelligence (AI) for dynamic environments remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning research. In this paper, we examine evolutionary training methods for optimizing AI to solve the game 2048, a 2D sliding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Maggie Bai , Ava Kim Cohen , Eleanor Koss , Charlie Lichtenbaum

Adversarial formulations such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) have rekindled interest in two-player min-max games. A central obstacle in the optimization of such games is the rotational dynamics that hinder their convergence. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Reyhane Askari Hemmat , Amartya Mitra , Guillaume Lajoie , Ioannis Mitliagkas