Multi-Agent Intention Progression with Reward Machines

Michael Dann, Yuan Yao, Natasha Alechina, Brian Logan, John Thangarajah

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Abstract

Recent work in multi-agent intention scheduling has shown that enabling agents to predict the actions of other agents when choosing their own actions may be beneficial. However existing approaches to 'intention-aware' scheduling assume that the programs of other agents are known, or are “similar” to that of the agent making the prediction. While this assumption is reasonable in some circumstances, it is less plausible when the agents are not co-designed. In this paper, we present a new approach to multi-agent intention scheduling in which agents predict the actions of other agents based on a high-level specification of the tasks performed by an agent in the form of a reward machine (RM) rather than on its (assumed) program. We show how a reward machine can be used to generate tree and rollout policies for an MCTS-based scheduler. We evaluate our approach in a range of multi-agent environments, and show that RM-based scheduling out-performs previous intention-aware scheduling approaches in settings where agents are not co-designed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022
EditorsLuc De Raedt, Luc De Raedt
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Pages215-222
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781956792003
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 23 Jul 202229 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Conference

Conference31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2022
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period23/07/2229/07/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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