A survey of progress on cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning in open environment

L Yuan, Z Zhang, L Li, C Guan, Y Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.01058, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has gained wide attention in recent years and
has made progress in various fields. Specifically, cooperative MARL focuses on training a …

Minimum coverage sets for training robust ad hoc teamwork agents

M Rahman, J Cui, P Stone - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Robustly cooperating with unseen agents and human partners presents significant
challenges due to the diverse cooperative conventions these partners may adopt. Existing …

Decision making in open agent systems

A Eck, LK Soh, P Doshi - AI Magazine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In many real‐world applications of AI, the set of actors and tasks are not constant, but
instead change over time. Robots tasked with suppressing wildfires eventually run out of …

Automated task-time interventions to improve teamwork using imitation learning

S Seo, B Han, V Unhelkar - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00413, 2023 - arxiv.org
Effective human-human and human-autonomy teamwork is critical but often challenging to
perfect. The challenge is particularly relevant in time-critical domains, such as healthcare …

Concept--An Evaluation Protocol on Conversation Recommender Systems with System-and User-centric Factors

C Huang, P Qin, Y Deng, W Lei, J Lv… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The conversational recommendation system (CRS) has been criticized regarding its user
experience in real-world scenarios, despite recent significant progress achieved in …

A general learning framework for open ad hoc teamwork using graph-based policy learning

A Rahman, I Carlucho, N Höpner… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
Open ad hoc teamwork is the problem of training a single agent to efficiently collaborate with
an unknown group of teammates whose composition may change over time. A variable team …

Byzantine robust cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning as a bayesian game

S Li, J Guo, J Xiu, R Xu, X Yu, J Wang, A Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this study, we explore the robustness of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (c-
MARL) against Byzantine failures, where any agent can enact arbitrary, worst-case actions …

Controlling type confounding in ad hoc teamwork with instance-wise teammate feedback rectification

D Xing, P Gu, Q Zheng, X Wang, S Liu… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Ad hoc teamwork requires an agent to cooperate with unknown teammates without prior
coordination. Many works propose to abstract teammate instances into high-level …

Learning complex teamwork tasks using a sub-task curriculum

E Fosong, A Rahman, I Carlucho… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Training a team to complete a complex task via multi-agent reinforcement learning can be
difficult due to challenges such as policy search in a large policy space, and non-stationarity …

Disentangling Interaction Using Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Systems.

D Rother, TH Weisswange, J Peters - ECAI, 2023 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Research on multi-agent interaction involving both multiple artificial agents and humans is
still in its infancy. Most recent approaches have focused on environments with collaboration …