Policy Communication for Coordination with Unknown Teammates
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Within multiagent teams research, existing approaches commonly assume agents have perfect knowledge regarding the decision process guiding their teammates’ actions. More recently, ad hoc teamwork was introduced to address situations where an agent must coordinate with a variety of potential teammates, including teammates with unknown behavior. This paper examines the communication of intentions for enhanced coordination between such agents. The proposed decisiontheoretic approach examines the uncertainty within a model of an unfamiliar teammate, identifying policy information valuable to the collaborative effort. We characterize this capability through theoretical analysis of the computational requirements as well as empirical evaluation of a communicative agent coordinating with an unknown teammate in a variation of the multiagent
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