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Stubborn: An Environment for Evaluating Stubbornness between Agents with Aligned Incentives

Recent research in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown success in learning social behavior and cooperation. Social dilemmas between agents in mixed-sum settings have been studied extensively, but there is little research into social dilemmas in fullycooperative settings, where agents have no prospect of gaining reward at another agent's expense. While fully-aligned interests are conducive to cooperation between agents, they do not guarantee it. We propose a measure of "stubbornness" between agents that aims to capture the human social behavior from which it takes its name: a disagreement that is gradually escalating and potentially disastrous. We would like to promote research into the tendency of agents to be stubborn, the reactions of counterpart agents, and the resulting social dynamics. In this paper we present Stubborn, an environment for evaluating stubbornness between agents with fully-aligned incentives. In our preliminary results, the agents learn to use their partner's stubbornness as a signal for improving the choices that they make in the environment

Comments from ARPA/AFML

I want to take a moment to give you a few reflections from the sponsoring agency. The Advanced Research Projects Agency has been set up to take chances on high risk R and 0. I have a warm spot in my heart for this particular program because it\u27s the first one that I was fortunate enough to pull together on an integrated basis. However, I have to admit that when it was first suggested by Mike Buckley that I should put a few chips in NOE, I felt kind of blah about it. I felt it was not a risky area, that it was not the colorful type of thing that ARPA should be getting into. The more I ~rd about it, however, the more I realized the importance of this area and that a good investment in some people that Don had pulled together would pay off handsomely. I want to compliment Don and the excellent team he has gotten together. I am particularly excited tonight to have the atteniton of people like Secretary Brownman who, I can appreciate, understands technology and understands that it needs diffusing out into the services. The program is still risky unless we can pull that off. Let\u27s hope that getting the attention of people like Secretary Brownman and others will aid in a technology transfer so that new developments will not be lost for another decade or two, or until someone rediscovers it

Психолого-педагогические аспекты преподавания дисциплины "общая биология" иностранным учащимся подготовительного факультета

В статье обосновывается необходимость использования психолого-педагогических подходов в процессе преподавания общей биологии иностранным учащимся на довузовском этапе обучения. Предлагаются специальные методические приемы овладения учащимися языком дисциплины терминологической лексики, обеспечивающие активную языковую компетенцию по предмету. Подчеркивается необходимость для совершенствования учебного процесса и реализации личностно ориентированного подхода предварительно оценить психофизиологический статус иностранных учащихся, что включает в себя исследование аналитико-синтетической деятельности, развитие различных видов запоминания, интенсивности и темпов умственной деятельности, личностных особенностей учащихся. Наиболее важные инструменты психолого-педагогической адаптации: оценка уровня восприятия учебного материала при различных формах его презентации (классическая лекция, микролекция, практические занятия)

Editorial : Advances in Goal, Plan and Activity Recognition

Funding Information: The editors would like to thank the authors and reviewers for their time and effort and also for providing new insights and reflections into the growing field of goal recognition research. We are indebted to Dr. Marta Compigotto, Senior Journal Specialist, and her editorial team for their editorial assistance.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

ICRA Roboethics Challenge 2023: Intelligent Disobedience in an Elderly Care Home

With the projected surge in the elderly population, service robots offer a promising avenue to enhance their well-being in elderly care homes. Such robots will encounter complex scenarios which will require them to perform decisions with ethical consequences. In this report, we propose to leverage the Intelligent Disobedience framework in order to give the robot the ability to perform a deliberation process over decisions with potential ethical implications. We list the issues that this framework can assist with, define it formally in the context of the specific elderly care home scenario, and delineate the requirements for implementing an intelligently disobeying robot. We conclude this report with some critical analysis and suggestions for future work.Comment: This report is part of ICRA roboethics competition : https://competition.raiselab.ca/competition-details-2023_1/ethics-challenge/submitted-proposals/submission-