Joshua Cook

STOC Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Time and Space Efficient Deterministic Decoders

• Joshua Cook
• Dana Moshkovitz

AAMAS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Multi-Team Fitness Critics For Robust Teaming

• Joshua Cook
• Tristan Scheiner
• Kagan Tumer

Many multiagent systems, such as search and rescue or underwater exploration, rely on generalizable teamwork abilities to achieve complex tasks. Though many ad-hoc teaming algorithms focus on finding an agent’s best fit with static team members, domains with high degrees of uncertainty and dynamic teammates require an agent to cooperate with arbitrary teams. Prior work views this as an issue of uninformative rewards, providing high-quality but potentially expensive evaluation methods to isolate an agent’s contribution. In this work, we provide a local-evaluation-based approach that leverages state trajectories of agents to better identify their impact across multiple teams. The key insight that enables this approach is that agent trajectories and previous experiences carry sufficient information to map agent abilities to team performance. As a result, we are able to train multiple agents to cooperate across arbitrary teams as well as, if not better than, current methods, while only using local information and significantly fewer team evaluations.