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Tom Eccles

5 accepted papers

2021

A Neural Network Auction For Group Decision Making Over a Continuous Space

IJCAI 2021poster

We propose a system for conducting an auction over locations in a continuous space. It enables participants to express their preferences over possible choices of location in the space, selecting the location that maximizes the total utility of all agents. We prevent agents from tricking the system i…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2020

Learning to Play No-Press Diplomacy with Best Response Policy Iteration

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (RL) have led to considerable progress in many 2-player zero-sum games, such as Go, Poker and Starcraft. The purely adversarial nature of such games allows for conceptually simple and principled application of RL methods. However real-world settings are…

2019

An Investigation of Model-Free Planning

ICML 2019oral

The field of reinforcement learning (RL) is facing increasingly challenging domains with combinatorial complexity. For an RL agent to address these challenges, it is essential that it can plan effectively. Prior work has typically utilized an explicit model of the environment, combined with a specif…

2019

Biases for Emergent Communication in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2019poster

We study the problem of emergent communication, in which language arises because speakers and listeners must communicate information in order to solve tasks. In temporally extended reinforcement learning domains, it has proved hard to learn such communication without centralized training of agents,…

Cited by 99SourcePDFScholar
2018

Life-Long Disentangled Representation Learning with Cross-Domain Latent Homologies

NeurIPS 2018spotlight

Intelligent behaviour in the real-world requires the ability to acquire new knowledge from an ongoing sequence of experiences while preserving and reusing past knowledge. We propose a novel algorithm for unsupervised representation learning from piece-wise stationary visual data: Variational Autoenc…