Grounded Joint-Attention Other-Play for Zero-Shot Coordination

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arXiv:2610.06025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint attention - the human ability to share a common visual or cognitive focus with others - enables a meeting of minds that lets us coordinate even with unfamiliar partners. In this work we investigate whether equipping AI agents with a similar mechanism can enable such zero-shot coordination. We introduce Mutual Attention for zero-shot TEaming (MATE): a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning method inspired by human joint attention. MATE encou