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48 results for agent futures

Temporal prediction is critical for making intelligent and robust decisions in complex dynamic environments. Motion prediction needs to model the inherently uncertain future which often contains multiple potential outcomes, due to multi-agent interactions and the latent goals of others. Towards these goals, we introduc…

2019-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Fast risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned agent futures.

problem Risk assessment for autonomous vehicles given probabilistic predictions of other agents' futures.
method Non-sampling based methods using deep neural networks for probabilistic predictions, with Gaussian and non-Gaussian mixture models for agent positions and controls.
result Effective risk assessment for low probability events using learned models of agent futures.

PI-SAC agents learn predictive information to improve RL efficiency.

problem Improving sample efficiency in reinforcement learning.
method PI-SAC agents use a contrastive version of Conditional Entropy Bottleneck to learn predictive information from past and future states.
result PI-SAC agents significantly improve sample efficiency on challenging continuous control tasks.

Self-Predictive Representations improves data-efficient reinforcement learning from limited interaction.

problem Efficient reinforcement learning from limited data.
method Train agents to predict future latent state representations using self-supervised objectives.
result Achieves a median human-normalized score of 0.415 on Atari with 100k steps of interaction, 55% improvement over previous state-of-the-art.

We consider portfolio optimization in futures markets. We model the entire futures price curve at once as a solution of a stochastic partial differential equation. The agents objective is to maximize her utility from the final wealth when investing in futures contracts. We study a class of futures price curve models wh…

2012-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances portfolio performance using deep reinforcement learning and future rewards.

problem Improving existing high-performing portfolio strategies through dynamic rebalancing.
method Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Oracle agents for dynamic rebalancing; Regret-based Sharpe reward function; Transaction cost scheduler; Future-looking reward function; Circular block bootstrap training.
result Significantly enhanced portfolio performance compared to traditional strategies and baselines.

AI agents manage portfolios, improving on human oversight.

problem Improving strategic asset allocation for institutional investors.
method 50 specialized agents produce capital market assumptions, construct portfolios, critique, and vote on each other's output.
result Meta-agent compares forecasts with realized returns and improves agent performance.

Autoencoder learns group representations from actions, improving future prediction accuracy.

problem Learning internal models of interactions with the real world.
method Homomorphism autoencoder with group representation trained on equivariance-derived loss.
result Agents can predict future actions with improved accuracy.

This paper is intended to explain, in simple terms, some of the mechanisms and agents common to multiagent financial market simulations. We first discuss the necessity to include an exogenous price time series ("the fundamental value") for each asset and three methods for generating that series. We then illustrate one …

2019-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article, we address the question of how non-knowledge about future events that influence economic agents' decisions in choice settings has been formally represented in economic theory up to date. To position our discussion within the ongoing debate on uncertainty, we provide a brief review of historical develop…

2012-09-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose an analytically tractable variation of the minority game in which rational agents use probabilistic strategies. In our model, NN agents choose between two alternatives repeatedly, and those who are in the minority get a pay-off 1, others zero. The agents optimize the expectation value of their discounted fu…

2012-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We study a large economy in which firms cannot compute exact solutions to the non-linear equations that characterize the equilibrium price at which they can sell future output. Instead, firms use polynomial expansions to approximate prices. The precision with which they can compute prices is endogenous and depends on t…

2016-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an overview of some representative Agent-Based Models in Economics. We discuss why and how agent-based models represent an important step in order to explain the dynamics and the statistical properties of financial markets beyond the Classical Theory of Economics. We perform a schematic analysis of several m…

2011-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach categorizes objective functions for embodied agents.

problem Understanding how objectives relate to each other and discovering new objectives.
method Introducing Action Perception Divergence (APD) to categorize objective functions.
result Introduces a spectrum of objectives from narrow to general, explaining various unsupervised objectives.

We show that reinforcement learning agents that learn by surprise (surprisal) get stuck at abrupt environmental transition boundaries because these transitions are difficult to learn. We propose a counter-intuitive solution that we call Mutual Information Minimising Exploration (MIME) where an agent learns a latent rep…

2020-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New simulation model predicts financial market dynamics with high accuracy.

problem Extreme difficulty in financial market projections due to human behavioural complexity.
method Agent-based modeling with a hierarchical knowledge architecture to simulate diverse human groups.
result Simulator achieves 13.29% deviation in crisis scenarios and lower mean square error under normal conditions.

The behavioral dynamics of multi-agent systems have a rich and orderly structure, which can be leveraged to understand these systems, and to improve how artificial agents learn to operate in them. Here we introduce Relational Forward Models (RFM) for multi-agent learning, networks that can learn to make accurate predic…

2018-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The large majority of risk-sharing transactions involve few agents, each of whom can heavily influence the structure and the prices of securities. This paper proposes a game where agents' strategic sets consist of all possible sharing securities and pricing kernels that are consistent with Arrow-Debreu sharing rules. F…

2014-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study allocates resources to strategic agents while balancing cost and incentives.

problem Dynamic allocation of reusable resources to strategic agents with private valuations under long-term cost constraints.
method Incentive-aware framework combining epoch-based lazy updates and randomized exploration rounds.
result Achieves ildeO(T) ilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{T}) social welfare regret, satisfies all cost constraints, and ensures incentive alignment.

Agents learn to give rewards to others in a shared learning environment.

problem How to encourage cooperation among RL agents in a shared environment.
method Each agent learns a reward function to influence others, optimizing for its own and others' extrinsic objectives.
result Agents significantly outperform standard RL in Markov games, often finding near-optimal division of labor.

In reinforcement learning the Q-values summarize the expected future rewards that the agent will attain. However, they cannot capture the epistemic uncertainty about those rewards. In this work we derive a new Bellman operator with associated fixed point we call the `knowledge values'. These K-values compress both the …

2018-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep active inference agents learn complex environments using Monte-Carlo methods.

problem Understanding and modeling biological intelligence in complex, continuous state-spaces.
method Neural architecture for deep active inference agents using multiple forms of Monte-Carlo sampling.
result Deep active inference agents can learn environmental dynamics and plan future actions.

We use martingale and stochastic analysis techniques to study a continuous-time optimal stopping problem, in which the decision maker uses a dynamic convex risk measure to evaluate future rewards. We also find a saddle point for an equivalent zero-sum game of control and stopping, between an agent (the "stopper") who c…

2009-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

For autonomous vehicles (AVs) to behave appropriately on roads populated by human-driven vehicles, they must be able to reason about the uncertain intentions and decisions of other drivers from rich perceptual information. Towards these capabilities, we present a probabilistic forecasting model of future interactions b…

2019-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling the purposeful behavior of imperfect agents from a small number of observations is a challenging task. When restricted to the single-agent decision-theoretic setting, inverse optimal control techniques assume that observed behavior is an approximately optimal solution to an unknown decision problem. These tech…

2013-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes trading policies using future price forecasts.

problem Static reinforcement learning agents lack mechanisms for using price forecasts at inference time.
method FPILOT framework inspired by Model Predictive Control (MPC). Uses a predictive model to construct an allocation-based imagined return objective at each decision step.
result Consistent improvements in total return and risk-adjusted metrics across various policy learning algorithms.

AI agents in experimental markets exhibit behavioral patterns that aggregate into market dynamics.

problem Understanding AI trading behavior and its impact on market dynamics.
method Experimental asset markets populated by AI agents trained on Large Language Models (LLMs).
result AI agents' behavior leads to market dynamics similar to human traders, including bubbles.

There is a consensus that human and non-human subjects experience temporal distortions in many stages of their perceptual and decision-making systems. Similarly, intertemporal choice research has shown that decision-makers undervalue future outcomes relative to immediate ones. Here we combine techniques from informatio…

2016-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

A Bayesian agent learns about the structure of a stationary process from ob- serving past outcomes. We prove that his predictions about the near future become ap- proximately those he would have made if he knew the long run empirical frequencies of the process.

2014-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗