Individual Agent
Individual agent research focuses on understanding the behavior and interactions of autonomous entities within complex systems, aiming to improve their coordination and decision-making. Current research emphasizes multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms, including proximal policy optimization and actor-critic methods, often incorporating communication strategies and causal credit assignment to enhance efficiency and cooperation. These advancements are significant for developing robust and explainable AI systems, with applications ranging from financial markets and resource management to autonomous robotics and human-AI collaboration. The field also explores the use of generative models and agent-based modeling to simulate complex social and economic phenomena.
Papers
Generative agent-based modeling with actions grounded in physical, social, or digital space using Concordia
Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, John P. Agapiou, Avia Aharon, Ron Ziv, Jayd Matyas, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, William A. Cunningham, Simon Osindero, Danny Karmon, Joel Z. Leibo
MACCA: Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Causal Credit Assignment
Ziyan Wang, Yali Du, Yudi Zhang, Meng Fang, Biwei Huang