Title
The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research.
Abstract
From the early days of computing, games have been important testbeds for studying how well machines can do sophisticated decision making. In recent years, machine learning has made dramatic advances with artificial agents reaching superhuman performance in challenge domains like Go, Atari, and some variants of poker. As with their predecessors of chess, checkers, and backgammon, these game domains have driven research by providing sophisticated yet well-defined challenges for artificial intelligence practitioners. We continue this tradition by proposing the game of Hanabi as a new challenge domain with novel problems that arise from its combination of purely cooperative gameplay with two to five players and imperfect information. In particular, we argue that Hanabi elevates reasoning about the beliefs and intentions of other agents to the foreground. We believe developing novel techniques for such theory of mind reasoning will not only be crucial for success in Hanabi, but also in broader collaborative efforts, especially those with human partners. To facilitate future research, we introduce the open-source Hanabi Learning Environment, propose an experimental framework for the research community to evaluate algorithmic advances, and assess the performance of current state-of-the-art techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.artint.2019.103216
Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-agent learning,Challenge paper,Reinforcement learning,Games,Theory of mind,Communication,Imperfect information,Cooperative
Data science,Theory of mind,Artificial intelligence,Learning environment,Perfect information,Frontier,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
280
1
0004-3702
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.69
31
Authors
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nolan Bard1907.40
Jakob N. Foerster230623.79
Sarath Chandar A. P.312713.79
Neil Burch437329.51
Marc Lanctot5212197.97
Francis Song680.69
Emilio Parisotto7423.39
Vincent Dumoulin895959.16
Subhodeep Moitra9833.15
Edward Hughes10267.67
Iain Dunning1126514.52
Shibl Mourad1291.05
Hugo Larochelle137692488.99
Marc G. Bellemare143098152.94
Michael H. Bowling152460205.07