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Timothy J. Norman

3 accepted papers

2025

Optimising Spatial Teamwork Under Uncertainty

AAAI 2025technical

We introduce a novel method for assessing agent teamwork based on their spatial coordination. Our approach models the influence of spatial proximity on team formation and sustained spatial dominance over adversaries using a Multi-agent Markov Decision Process. We develop an algorithm to derive effic…

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2024

Speaking Your Language: Spatial Relationships in Interpretable Emergent Communication

NeurIPS 2024poster

Effective communication requires the ability to refer to specific parts of an observation in relation to others. While emergent communication literature shows success in developing various language properties, no research has shown the emergence of such positional references. This paper demonstrates…

2024

TAPE: Leveraging Agent Topology for Cooperative Multi-Agent Policy Gradient

AAAI 2024technical

Multi-Agent Policy Gradient (MAPG) has made significant progress in recent years. However, centralized critics in state-of-the-art MAPG methods still face the centralized-decentralized mismatch (CDM) issue, which means sub-optimal actions by some agents will affect other agent's policy learning. Whi…