Shoot First, Ask Questions Later? Building Rational Agents that Explore and Act Like People

ICLROral2026

Authors
Gabriel Grand, Valerio Pepe, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Venue
ICLR 2026
Track
Oral

TL;DR

We introduce a collaborative Battleship task to evaluate information-seeking in humans and agents; insights from Bayesian Experimental Design (BED) yield inference-time strategies for building resource-rational agents in discovery settings.

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Topics

bayesian agent

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