Similarly: Enhancing Goal Inference via Correction Timing
by Anjiabei Wang, Shuangge Wang, Tesca Fitzgerald

was a very nice robot paper about anticipating correction and seeing which aspects of it help with the behaviour, also relevant to human centring #aamas #AIEthics

From Actions to Words: Towards Abstractive-Textual Policy Summarization in RL
Sahar Admoni, Assaf Hallak, Yftah Ziser, Omer Ben-Porat, Ofra Amir

agent figures out which door the key opens.
environment observation creates agent actin impac ts policy. "typical RL" . What's new: use LLM to produce text describing these things / evnts, then use LLM to generate summaries, then evaluate to check precision (hallucinations) and recall

again, nice #humanCentring #aamas #aiethics

A bunch of people having trouble getting visas to come to theis EU but middle eastern country, – from the USA! Rice & Harvard! #aamas #trumpWars #WarsOfAggression

I got derailed checking I could give my keynote in Keynote, and then getting filmed as if I'd already given my talk (which I haven't actually written) so only caught half of

LEARN 7 – Social, Evolutionary and Swarm Learning

Surrogate-Augmented Deception in Reinforcement Learning (SAD-RL)
Joe Shymanski, Scott Nivison, Sandip Sen

looked like an excellent paper. itnereting question about when do you want to decieive? sad answer -- when you are in a conflict context. US SW authors weem very aware of that.

VGC-Bench: Towards Mastering Diverse Team Strategies in Competitive Pokémon
Cameron L. Angliss, Jiaxun Cui, Jiaheng Hu, Arrasy Rahman, and old friend Peter Stone!

Pokeman 10^136 they claim :-) violates every assumption chess etc use.

scraped 700K open team sheet battle logs #aamas #pokeman

Can Vibe Coding Beat Graduate CS Students? An LLM vs. Human Coding Tournament on Market-driven Strategic Planning
Panayiotis Danassis, Naman Goel

No. People are fooled because benchmarks are binary. If you have agents play against each other, despite using most expensive LLM, lots of prompt strategies, LLM even degraded winning models when handed them as a part of the prompt! Runanable ≠ competitive. These were not great programmers, just msc students the AI can't beat. #aamas

OTOH some TERRIBLE practice wih people not turning up or just piping in badly with recorded talks. IMO there should be no recorded talks even if it is hybrid.

The final paper has FIVE authors present, and 1/4 the starting audience :-( #aamas

Wooldridge points out Lesser put the whole frst meeting on his visa card and was lucky a lot of peole came so he could pay his bill!

Wooldridge goes on to talk about #ATAL Everyone else was doing components, only hte robots were doing full systems, so that kicked off the whole arechitecture question, which he still thinks is the most relevant question in 2026. Oh, but now he's down the Bratman & Knowledge Representation (KR) rabbit hole (showing my biases :-) #scruffies #aamas

Gini – hey #AAMAS started in Bolognia, the first university of the world! That's why it went so well :-) History, food, we are humans, this has long-term impact.

She also makes an excellent point for the "future" question – #AAMAS needs to figure out how to reconcile what they are doing with what the #agentic systems are doing. I have tbh been disappointed by the lack of engagement to that here this year, but I expect Wooldridge's keynote will help tomorrow; we'll see.