LLM agents discover hidden rules in social dilemmas but fail to sustain cooperation

A new benchmark reveals that even the strongest models cannot jointly adapt to unfamiliar environmental dynamics and other agents' behavior.

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Zihao Guo · Meng Fang · Joel Z. Leibo · Yali Du

King's College London · University of Liverpool · The Alan Turing Institute · Google DeepMind

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The authors introduce OpenSocialJax, a benchmark extending Clean Up and Commons Harvest with procedurally generated layouts and hidden rules from tens of millions of configurations.

The authors developed OpenSocialJax, built on Clean Up and Commons Harvest from Melting Pot and SocialJax.

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From Google DeepMind and 3 others

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LLM agents in OpenSocialJax discover hidden environment rules but fail to sustain cooperation, depleting shared resources in social dilemmas.

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