Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference

Pöppel J, Kahl S, Kopp S (2021)
Cognitive Computation 14(2): 581–601.

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Working together on complex collaborative tasks requires agents to coordinate their actions. Doing this explicitly or completely prior to the actual interaction is not always possible nor sufficient. Agents also need to continuously understand the current actions of others and quickly adapt their own behavior appropriately. Here we investigate how efficient, automatic coordination processes at the level of mental states (intentions, goals), which we call belief resonance, can lead to collaborative situated problem-solving. We present a model of hierarchical active inference for collaborative agents (HAICA). It combines efficient Bayesian Theory of Mind processes with a perception–action system based on predictive processing and active inference. Belief resonance is realized by letting the inferred mental states of one agent influence another agent’s predictive beliefs about its own goals and intentions. This way, the inferred mental states influence the agent’s own task behavior without explicit collaborative reasoning. We implement and evaluate this model in the Overcooked domain, in which two agents with varying degrees of belief resonance team up to fulfill meal orders. Our results demonstrate that agents based on HAICA achieve a team performance comparable to recent state-of-the-art approaches, while incurring much lower computational costs. We also show that belief resonance is especially beneficial in settings where the agents have asymmetric knowledge about the environment. The results indicate that belief resonance and active inference allow for quick and efficient agent coordination and thus can serve as a building block for collaborative cognitive agents.
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Zeitschriftentitel
Cognitive Computation
Band
14
Ausgabe
2
Seite(n)
581–601
ISSN
1866-9956
eISSN
1866-9964
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Pöppel J, Kahl S, Kopp S. Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference. Cognitive Computation. 2021;14(2):581–601.
Pöppel, J., Kahl, S., & Kopp, S. (2021). Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference. Cognitive Computation, 14(2), 581–601. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-021-09960-4
Pöppel, Jan, Kahl, Sebastian, and Kopp, Stefan. 2021. “Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference”. Cognitive Computation 14 (2): 581–601.
Pöppel, J., Kahl, S., and Kopp, S. (2021). Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference. Cognitive Computation 14, 581–601.
Pöppel, J., Kahl, S., & Kopp, S., 2021. Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference. Cognitive Computation, 14(2), p 581–601.
J. Pöppel, S. Kahl, and S. Kopp, “Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference”, Cognitive Computation, vol. 14, 2021, pp. 581–601.
Pöppel, J., Kahl, S., Kopp, S.: Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference. Cognitive Computation. 14, 581–601 (2021).
Pöppel, Jan, Kahl, Sebastian, and Kopp, Stefan. “Resonating Minds—Emergent Collaboration Through Hierarchical Active Inference”. Cognitive Computation 14.2 (2021): 581–601.
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