Search Results for author: Karl Tuyls

Found 50 papers, 25 papers with code

Fast computation of Nash Equilibria in Imperfect Information Games

no code implementations ICML 2020 Remi Munos, Julien Perolat, Jean-Baptiste Lespiau, Mark Rowland, Bart De Vylder, Marc Lanctot, Finbarr Timbers, Daniel Hennes, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Audrunas Gruslys, Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Edward Lockhart, Karl Tuyls

We introduce and analyze a class of algorithms, called Mirror Ascent against an Improved Opponent (MAIO), for computing Nash equilibria in two-player zero-sum games, both in normal form and in sequential imperfect information form.

Using deep reinforcement learning to promote sustainable human behaviour on a common pool resource problem

no code implementations23 Apr 2024 Raphael Koster, Miruna Pîslar, Andrea Tacchetti, Jan Balaguer, Leqi Liu, Romuald Elie, Oliver P. Hauser, Karl Tuyls, Matt Botvinick, Christopher Summerfield

A canonical social dilemma arises when finite resources are allocated to a group of people, who can choose to either reciprocate with interest, or keep the proceeds for themselves.

States as Strings as Strategies: Steering Language Models with Game-Theoretic Solvers

1 code implementation24 Jan 2024 Ian Gemp, Yoram Bachrach, Marc Lanctot, Roma Patel, Vibhavari Dasagi, Luke Marris, Georgios Piliouras, SiQi Liu, Karl Tuyls

A suitable model of the players, strategies, and payoffs associated with linguistic interactions (i. e., a binding to the conventional symbolic logic of game theory) would enable existing game-theoretic algorithms to provide strategic solutions in the space of language.

Imitation Learning

Towards a Pretrained Model for Restless Bandits via Multi-arm Generalization

no code implementations23 Oct 2023 Yunfan Zhao, Nikhil Behari, Edward Hughes, Edwin Zhang, Dheeraj Nagaraj, Karl Tuyls, Aparna Taneja, Milind Tambe

Restless multi-arm bandits (RMABs), a class of resource allocation problems with broad application in areas such as healthcare, online advertising, and anti-poaching, have recently been studied from a multi-agent reinforcement learning perspective.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Multi-Armed Bandits +1

An Analysis of Quantile Temporal-Difference Learning

no code implementations11 Jan 2023 Mark Rowland, Rémi Munos, Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Yunhao Tang, Georg Ostrovski, Anna Harutyunyan, Karl Tuyls, Marc G. Bellemare, Will Dabney

We analyse quantile temporal-difference learning (QTD), a distributional reinforcement learning algorithm that has proven to be a key component in several successful large-scale applications of reinforcement learning.

Distributional Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Game Theoretic Rating in N-player general-sum games with Equilibria

no code implementations5 Oct 2022 Luke Marris, Marc Lanctot, Ian Gemp, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Stephen Mcaleer, Jerome Connor, Karl Tuyls, Thore Graepel

Rating strategies in a game is an important area of research in game theory and artificial intelligence, and can be applied to any real-world competitive or cooperative setting.

Developing, Evaluating and Scaling Learning Agents in Multi-Agent Environments

no code implementations22 Sep 2022 Ian Gemp, Thomas Anthony, Yoram Bachrach, Avishkar Bhoopchand, Kalesha Bullard, Jerome Connor, Vibhavari Dasagi, Bart De Vylder, Edgar Duenez-Guzman, Romuald Elie, Richard Everett, Daniel Hennes, Edward Hughes, Mina Khan, Marc Lanctot, Kate Larson, Guy Lever, SiQi Liu, Luke Marris, Kevin R. McKee, Paul Muller, Julien Perolat, Florian Strub, Andrea Tacchetti, Eugene Tarassov, Zhe Wang, Karl Tuyls

The Game Theory & Multi-Agent team at DeepMind studies several aspects of multi-agent learning ranging from computing approximations to fundamental concepts in game theory to simulating social dilemmas in rich spatial environments and training 3-d humanoids in difficult team coordination tasks.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Learning Correlated Equilibria in Mean-Field Games

no code implementations22 Aug 2022 Paul Muller, Romuald Elie, Mark Rowland, Mathieu Lauriere, Julien Perolat, Sarah Perrin, Matthieu Geist, Georgios Piliouras, Olivier Pietquin, Karl Tuyls

The designs of many large-scale systems today, from traffic routing environments to smart grids, rely on game-theoretic equilibrium concepts.

Statistical discrimination in learning agents

no code implementations21 Oct 2021 Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Kevin R. McKee, Yiran Mao, Ben Coppin, Silvia Chiappa, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, Michiel A. Bakker, Yoram Bachrach, Suzanne Sadedin, William Isaac, Karl Tuyls, Joel Z. Leibo

Undesired bias afflicts both human and algorithmic decision making, and may be especially prevalent when information processing trade-offs incentivize the use of heuristics.

Decision Making Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Evolutionary Dynamics and $Φ$-Regret Minimization in Games

no code implementations28 Jun 2021 Georgios Piliouras, Mark Rowland, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Romuald Elie, Daniel Hennes, Jerome Connor, Karl Tuyls

Importantly, $\Phi$-regret enables learning agents to consider deviations from and to mixed strategies, generalizing several existing notions of regret such as external, internal, and swap regret, and thus broadening the insights gained from regret-based analysis of learning algorithms.

Multi-Agent Training beyond Zero-Sum with Correlated Equilibrium Meta-Solvers

1 code implementation17 Jun 2021 Luke Marris, Paul Muller, Marc Lanctot, Karl Tuyls, Thore Graepel

Two-player, constant-sum games are well studied in the literature, but there has been limited progress outside of this setting.

From Motor Control to Team Play in Simulated Humanoid Football

1 code implementation25 May 2021 SiQi Liu, Guy Lever, Zhe Wang, Josh Merel, S. M. Ali Eslami, Daniel Hennes, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Yuval Tassa, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Noah Y. Siegel, Leonard Hasenclever, Luke Marris, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, H. Francis Song, Markus Wulfmeier, Paul Muller, Tuomas Haarnoja, Brendan D. Tracey, Karl Tuyls, Thore Graepel, Nicolas Heess

In a sequence of stages, players first learn to control a fully articulated body to perform realistic, human-like movements such as running and turning; they then acquire mid-level football skills such as dribbling and shooting; finally, they develop awareness of others and play as a team, bridging the gap between low-level motor control at a timescale of milliseconds, and coordinated goal-directed behaviour as a team at the timescale of tens of seconds.

Imitation Learning Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning +1

Scaling up Mean Field Games with Online Mirror Descent

1 code implementation28 Feb 2021 Julien Perolat, Sarah Perrin, Romuald Elie, Mathieu Laurière, Georgios Piliouras, Matthieu Geist, Karl Tuyls, Olivier Pietquin

We address scaling up equilibrium computation in Mean Field Games (MFGs) using Online Mirror Descent (OMD).

Navigating the Landscape of Multiplayer Games

no code implementations4 May 2020 Shayegan Omidshafiei, Karl Tuyls, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Francisco C. Santos, Mark Rowland, Jerome Connor, Daniel Hennes, Paul Muller, Julien Perolat, Bart De Vylder, Audrunas Gruslys, Remi Munos

Multiplayer games have long been used as testbeds in artificial intelligence research, aptly referred to as the Drosophila of artificial intelligence.

The Automated Inspection of Opaque Liquid Vaccines

no code implementations21 Feb 2020 Gregory Palmer, Benjamin Schnieders, Rahul Savani, Karl Tuyls, Joscha-David Fossel, Harry Flore

We train 3D-ConvNets to predict the likelihood of 20-frame video samples containing anomalies.

Multiagent Evaluation under Incomplete Information

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2019 Mark Rowland, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Karl Tuyls, Julien Perolat, Michal Valko, Georgios Piliouras, Remi Munos

This paper investigates the evaluation of learned multiagent strategies in the incomplete information setting, which plays a critical role in ranking and training of agents.

Differentiable Game Mechanics

1 code implementation13 May 2019 Alistair Letcher, David Balduzzi, Sebastien Racaniere, James Martens, Jakob Foerster, Karl Tuyls, Thore Graepel

The decomposition motivates Symplectic Gradient Adjustment (SGA), a new algorithm for finding stable fixed points in differentiable games.

Deep reinforcement learning with relational inductive biases

no code implementations ICLR 2019 Vinicius Zambaldi, David Raposo, Adam Santoro, Victor Bapst, Yujia Li, Igor Babuschkin, Karl Tuyls, David Reichert, Timothy Lillicrap, Edward Lockhart, Murray Shanahan, Victoria Langston, Razvan Pascanu, Matthew Botvinick, Oriol Vinyals, Peter Battaglia

We introduce an approach for augmenting model-free deep reinforcement learning agents with a mechanism for relational reasoning over structured representations, which improves performance, learning efficiency, generalization, and interpretability.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) +3

Evolving Indoor Navigational Strategies Using Gated Recurrent Units In NEAT

no code implementations12 Apr 2019 James Butterworth, Rahul Savani, Karl Tuyls

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms are expensive to run on smaller robotic platforms such as Micro-Aerial Vehicles.

Computing Approximate Equilibria in Sequential Adversarial Games by Exploitability Descent

no code implementations13 Mar 2019 Edward Lockhart, Marc Lanctot, Julien Pérolat, Jean-Baptiste Lespiau, Dustin Morrill, Finbarr Timbers, Karl Tuyls

In this paper, we present exploitability descent, a new algorithm to compute approximate equilibria in two-player zero-sum extensive-form games with imperfect information, by direct policy optimization against worst-case opponents.

counterfactual

α-Rank: Multi-Agent Evaluation by Evolution

1 code implementation4 Mar 2019 Shayegan Omidshafiei, Christos Papadimitriou, Georgios Piliouras, Karl Tuyls, Mark Rowland, Jean-Baptiste Lespiau, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Marc Lanctot, Julien Perolat, Remi Munos

We introduce {\alpha}-Rank, a principled evolutionary dynamics methodology, for the evaluation and ranking of agents in large-scale multi-agent interactions, grounded in a novel dynamical game-theoretic solution concept called Markov-Conley chains (MCCs).

Mathematical Proofs

Robust Temporal Difference Learning for Critical Domains

no code implementations23 Jan 2019 Richard Klima, Daan Bloembergen, Michael Kaisers, Karl Tuyls

We prove convergence of the operator to the optimal robust Q-function with respect to the model using the theory of Generalized Markov Decision Processes.

SCC-rFMQ Learning in Cooperative Markov Games with Continuous Actions

no code implementations18 Sep 2018 Chengwei Zhang, Xiaohong Li, Jianye Hao, Siqi Chen, Karl Tuyls, Zhiyong Feng, Wanli Xue, Rong Chen

Although many reinforcement learning methods have been proposed for learning the optimal solutions in single-agent continuous-action domains, multiagent coordination domains with continuous actions have received relatively few investigations.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Negative Update Intervals in Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation13 Sep 2018 Gregory Palmer, Rahul Savani, Karl Tuyls

For instance, hysteretic Q-learning addresses miscoordination while leaving agents vulnerable towards misleading stochastic rewards.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Q-Learning +2

Fast Convergence for Object Detection by Learning how to Combine Error Functions

no code implementations13 Aug 2018 Benjamin Schnieders, Karl Tuyls

Compared to state-of-the-art task weighting methods, the improvement is 24. 5% in convergence, and 15. 8% on the estimated pickup rate.

object-detection Object Detection

Re-evaluating Evaluation

2 code implementations NeurIPS 2018 David Balduzzi, Karl Tuyls, Julien Perolat, Thore Graepel

Progress in machine learning is measured by careful evaluation on problems of outstanding common interest.

Relational Deep Reinforcement Learning

7 code implementations5 Jun 2018 Vinicius Zambaldi, David Raposo, Adam Santoro, Victor Bapst, Yujia Li, Igor Babuschkin, Karl Tuyls, David Reichert, Timothy Lillicrap, Edward Lockhart, Murray Shanahan, Victoria Langston, Razvan Pascanu, Matthew Botvinick, Oriol Vinyals, Peter Battaglia

We introduce an approach for deep reinforcement learning (RL) that improves upon the efficiency, generalization capacity, and interpretability of conventional approaches through structured perception and relational reasoning.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) +3

Emergence of Linguistic Communication from Referential Games with Symbolic and Pixel Input

1 code implementation ICLR 2018 Angeliki Lazaridou, Karl Moritz Hermann, Karl Tuyls, Stephen Clark

The ability of algorithms to evolve or learn (compositional) communication protocols has traditionally been studied in the language evolution literature through the use of emergent communication tasks.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

1 code implementation ICLR 2018 Kris Cao, Angeliki Lazaridou, Marc Lanctot, Joel Z. Leibo, Karl Tuyls, Stephen Clark

We also study communication behaviour in a setting where one agent interacts with agents in a community with different levels of prosociality and show how agent identifiability can aid negotiation.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

SA-IGA: A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Method Towards Socially Optimal Outcomes

no code implementations8 Mar 2018 Chengwei Zhang, Xiaohong Li, Jianye Hao, Siqi Chen, Karl Tuyls, Wanli Xue

In multiagent environments, the capability of learning is important for an agent to behave appropriately in face of unknown opponents and dynamic environment.

Q-Learning reinforcement-learning +1

The Mechanics of n-Player Differentiable Games

1 code implementation ICML 2018 David Balduzzi, Sebastien Racaniere, James Martens, Jakob Foerster, Karl Tuyls, Thore Graepel

The first is related to potential games, which reduce to gradient descent on an implicit function; the second relates to Hamiltonian games, a new class of games that obey a conservation law, akin to conservation laws in classical mechanical systems.

A Unified Game-Theoretic Approach to Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2017 Marc Lanctot, Vinicius Zambaldi, Audrunas Gruslys, Angeliki Lazaridou, Karl Tuyls, Julien Perolat, David Silver, Thore Graepel

To achieve general intelligence, agents must learn how to interact with others in a shared environment: this is the challenge of multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL).

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Lenient Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation14 Jul 2017 Gregory Palmer, Karl Tuyls, Daan Bloembergen, Rahul Savani

We find that LDQN agents are more likely to converge to the optimal policy in a stochastic reward CMOTP compared to standard and scheduled-HDQN agents.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

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