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Multi-Agent Goal Recognition with Team- and Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning and Factorized Branch-and-Bound

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arXiv

arxiv.org/abs/2606.25978v1

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The paper introduces Multi-Agent Goal Recognition with Team- and Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning and Factorized Branch-and-Bound (MAGR-BB), a method for inferring which agents are working together and what each team is trying to achieve based on their trajectory, particularly useful in applications such as drone surveillance and collaborative robotics. MAGR-BB uses a shared policy as the scoring model within a branch-and-bound search, significantly reducing recognition runtime compared to exhaustive search while maintaining accuracy.

What the Document Says

  • The paper presents Multi-Agent Goal Recognition with Branch-and-Bound (MAGR-BB).
  • The method is used for inferring team and goals based on an observer's view of the agents' trajectory.
  • Real applications include drone surveillance and collaborative robotics.
  • MAGR-BB uses a shared team- and goal-conditioned policy as the scoring model inside a factorized branch-and-bound search.
  • The method is tested on a controlled multi-agent Blocksworld benchmark.
  • MAGR-BB returns the same top-ranked hypothesis as exhaustive search throughout the trajectory.
  • MAGR-BB significantly reduces recognition runtime compared to exhaustive search.
  • Unknown: whether MAGR-BB is tested on any other datasets or real-world applications.

Key Concepts Mentioned

  • Multi-Agent Goal Recognition
  • Branch-and-Bound
  • Team-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
  • Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Claims Made by the Document

  • MAGR-BB significantly reduces recognition runtime compared to exhaustive search.
  • MAGR-BB returns the same top-ranked hypothesis as exhaustive search throughout the trajectory.

Evidence Used

  • On a controlled multi-agent Blocksworld benchmark, MAGR-BB returns the same top-ranked hypothesis as exhaustive search... while reducing cumulative recognition runtime substantially.

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Raw Abstract / Excerpt

Multi-agent goal recognition asks an observer to jointly infer which agents act together and what each team is trying to achieve, so the hypothesis space grows combinatorially with the number of team partitions and goals per team. Real applications such as drone surveillance and collaborative robotics expose only the agents' trajectory, which forces the observer to rank team-goal hypotheses from behavior alone. Multi-Agent Goal Recognition with Branch-and-Bound (MAGR-BB) addresses this setting with a shared team- and goal-conditioned policy used as the scoring model inside a factorized branch-and-bound search. On a controlled multi-agent Blocksworld benchmark, MAGR-BB returns the same top-ranked hypothesis as exhaustive search throughout the trajectory while cutting hypothesis materialization by orders of magnitude and reducing cumulative recognition runtime substantially.