PACT: Phenotype-Aware Contrastive Team Representation for Multi-Phenotype Grouped Ad Hoc Teamwork

arXiv:2510.25340v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning to collaborate with various unfamiliar teammates poses a great challenge in the domain of multi-agent systems. Existing ad hoc teamwork methods typically drive controlled agents to collaborate with a group of teammates exhibiting a single coordination phenotype shaped by the same reward function. However, in real-world applications, controlled agents should collaborate with unfamiliar teammates of diverse coordination phenotypes among groups that have never worked together. We formalize this as the Multi-Phenotype Grouped Ad Hoc Teamwork (MPG-AHT) problem, and propose Phenotype-Aware Contrastive Team Representation (PACT) to solve this problem. PACT is empowered with phenotype-aware contrastive learning and relational reasoning to accurately distinguish coordination phenotypes and capture inter-agent interactions. Extensive experiments on multi-phenotype collaboration tasks show that PACT outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on average, achieving a mean 21.0% gain in out-of-distribution evaluation and a mean 36.5% gain in sample efficiency.

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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-08-21