Zero-Shot Coordination between Teams of Agents: N-XPlay

This is the repository for Towards Zero-Shot Coordination between Teams of Agents: The N-XPlay Framework paper presented at RSS Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Multi-Robot Systems: Decision-Making, Coordination, and Learning 2025.

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17560. Please email the authors at [email protected] if you have any questions!

Set up guide

1. Follow setup instrcution for overcooked_ai from here
2. Clone this repository: git clone [email protected]:HIRO-group/multiHRI.git
3. Activate conda env: conda activate mHRI
4. Run: pip install pip==24.0 wheel==0.38.4 setuptools==65.5.0
5. cd into the repo and run: pip install -e ..
6. Install liblsl using conda

Training agents

Refer to scripts/train_agents.py for examples on how to train different agent trainings. If you've installed the package as above, you can run the script using:
python scripts/train_agents.py

Citation

If you use this repository in any way, please cite:

{@inproceedings{abderezaei2025zeroshotcoordinationteamsagents,
    author      = {Abderezaei, Ava and Lin, Chi-Hui and Miceli, Joseph and Sivagnanadasan, Naren and Aroca-Ouellette, Stéphane and Brawer, Jake and Roncone, Alessandro},
    title       = {Towards Zero-Shot Coordination between Teams of Agents: The N-XPlay Framework},
    booktitle   = {RSS Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Multi-Robot Systems: Decision-Making, Coordination, and Learning},
    year        = {2025},
    organization= {RSS},
    month       = {June},
    numpages    = {3},
}