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A unifying framework for observer-aware planning and its complexity
Shuwa Miura, Shlomo Zilberstein
Abstract
Being aware of observers and the inferences they make about an agent’s behavior is crucial for successful multi-agent interaction. Existing works on observer-aware planning use different assumptions and techniques to produce observer-aware behaviors. We argue that observer-aware planning, in its most general form, can be modeled as an Interactive POMDP (I-POMDP), which requires complex modeling and is hard to solve. Hence, we introduce a less complex framework for producing observer-aware behaviors called Observer-Aware MDP (OAMDP) and analyze its relationship to I-POMDP. We establish the complexity of OAMDPs and show that they can improve interpretability of agent behaviors in several scenarios.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v161-miura21a,
title = {A unifying framework for observer-aware planning and its complexity},
author = {Miura, Shuwa and Zilberstein, Shlomo},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
pages = {610--620},
year = {2021},
editor = {de Campos, Cassio and Maathuis, Marloes H.},
volume = {161},
series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
month = {27--30 Jul},
publisher = {PMLR},
pdf = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v161/miura21a/miura21a.pdf},
url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v161/miura21a.html},
abstract = {Being aware of observers and the inferences they make about an agent’s behavior is crucial for successful multi-agent interaction. Existing works on observer-aware planning use different assumptions and techniques to produce observer-aware behaviors. We argue that observer-aware planning, in its most general form, can be modeled as an Interactive POMDP (I-POMDP), which requires complex modeling and is hard to solve. Hence, we introduce a less complex framework for producing observer-aware behaviors called Observer-Aware MDP (OAMDP) and analyze its relationship to I-POMDP. We establish the complexity of OAMDPs and show that they can improve interpretability of agent behaviors in several scenarios.}
}