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Peter McBurney

2 accepted papers

2024

Learning Translations: Emergent Communication Pretraining for Cooperative Language Acquisition

IJCAI 2024poster

In Emergent Communication (EC) agents learn to communicate with one another, but the protocols that they develop are specialised to their training community. This observation led to research into Zero-Shot Coordination (ZSC) for learning communication strategies that are robust to agents not encount…

2021

The Influence of Memory in Multi-Agent Consensus

AAAI 2021technical

Multi-agent consensus problems can often be seen as a sequence of autonomous and independent local choices between a finite set of decision options, with each local choice undertaken simultaneously, and with a shared goal of achieving a global consensus state. Being able to estimate probabilities…