Search Results for author: Stephen Hailes

Found 17 papers, 5 papers with code

Dynamics of Moral Behavior in Heterogeneous Populations of Learning Agents

no code implementations7 Mar 2024 Elizaveta Tennant, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

In multi-agent (social) environments, complex population-level phenomena may emerge from interactions between individual learning agents.

Information-Theoretic State Variable Selection for Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations21 Jan 2024 Charles Westphal, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

Identifying the most suitable variables to represent the state is a fundamental challenge in Reinforcement Learning (RL).

Decision Making feature selection +4

Learning Machine Morality through Experience and Interaction

no code implementations4 Dec 2023 Elizaveta Tennant, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

In particular, we present three case studies of recent works which use learning from experience (i. e., Reinforcement Learning) to explicitly provide moral principles to learning agents - either as intrinsic rewards, moral logical constraints or textual principles for language models.

Ethics

Modeling Moral Choices in Social Dilemmas with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

2 code implementations20 Jan 2023 Elizaveta Tennant, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

In particular, we believe that an interesting and insightful starting point is the analysis of emergent behavior of Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents that act according to a predefined set of moral rewards in social dilemmas.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Graph Neural Modeling of Network Flows

no code implementations12 Sep 2022 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

Network flow problems, which involve distributing traffic such that the underlying infrastructure is used effectively, are ubiquitous in transportation and logistics.

Graph Attention Graph Learning

Trust-based Consensus in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems

no code implementations25 May 2022 Ho Long Fung, Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

An often neglected issue in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is the potential presence of unreliable agents in the environment whose deviations from expected behavior can prevent a system from accomplishing its intended tasks.

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Solving Graph-based Public Goods Games with Tree Search and Imitation Learning

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

In particular, we define a Markov Decision Process which incrementally generates an mIS, and adopt a planning method to search for equilibria, outperforming existing methods.

Combinatorial Optimization Imitation Learning

Solving Graph-based Public Good Games with Tree Search and Imitation Learning

1 code implementation12 Jun 2021 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

Public goods games represent insightful settings for studying incentives for individual agents to make contributions that, while costly for each of them, benefit the wider society.

Combinatorial Optimization Imitation Learning

Planning Spatial Networks with Monte Carlo Tree Search

no code implementations12 Jun 2021 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

We tackle the problem of goal-directed graph construction: given a starting graph, a budget of modifications, and a global objective function, the aim is to find a set of edges whose addition to the graph achieves the maximum improvement in the objective (e. g., communication efficiency).

graph construction

Cooperation and Reputation Dynamics with Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations15 Feb 2021 Nicolas Anastassacos, Julian García, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

We use a simple model of reinforcement learning to show that reputation mechanisms generate two coordination problems: agents need to learn how to coordinate on the meaning of existing reputations and collectively agree on a social norm to assign reputations to others based on their behavior.

Q-Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Identifying Vulnerabilities of Industrial Control Systems using Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimisation

no code implementations27 May 2020 Nilufer Tuptuk, Stephen Hailes

In this paper we propose a novel methodology to assist in identifying vulnerabilities in a real-world complex heterogeneous industrial control systems (ICS) using two evolutionary multiobjective optimisation (EMO) algorithms, NSGA-II and SPEA2.

Intrusion Detection

Goal-directed graph construction using reinforcement learning

1 code implementation30 Jan 2020 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi

In this work, we formulate the construction of a graph as a decision-making process in which a central agent creates topologies by trial and error and receives rewards proportional to the value of the target objective.

Decision Making graph construction +2

Online Collective Animal Movement Activity Recognition

no code implementations22 Nov 2018 Kehinde Owoeye, Stephen Hailes

Learning the activities of animals is important for the purpose of monitoring their welfare vis a vis their behaviour with respect to their environment and conspecifics.

Activity Recognition

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