Maritime Capture the Flag (MCTF) Competition @ AAMAS 2024
The Maritime Capture the Flag (MCTF) Competition addresses the problem of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for playing a multi-player Capture-the-Flag game within a real-time simulation of a maritime gaming environment. Participants are invited to submit software code in Python for three agents that can play the game as a team against an opponent team, while maximizing their team's score. Example code for training agents to play MCTF using the RLlib MARL library and for testing trained agent policies against baseline opponent strategies are included in the provided code repository.
2024 MCTF Results (main competition):
fastforwardAI - Simon Lucas
pakapro - Katsuki Ohto & abdullah_alamer - Abdullah Alamer
krakenmeister - John Meo
wp999 - James Chao, Wiktor Piotrowski, and Gautham Dixit
jeff - Jeff Richley, and Chris Tucker
Most Captures (Secondary Category):
yizhaojin - Yizhao Jin
peterc - Peter Crowley
jeff - Jeff Richley, and Chris Tucker
wp999 - James Chao, Wiktor Piotrowski, and Gautham Dixit
mattL - Matthew Leprell
Particpate in MCTF
Click on the buttons below to find out more about each aspect of the MCTF competition. By participating in the MCTF competition, every participant affirms to abide by the competition's participation and eligibility requirements given here.
Competition Timeline and Important Dates
Competition Opens: February 5, 2024
Qualifying Round: February 5 - April 5, 2024 (online): Submitted entries play against three different hardness levels of opposing teams provided by competition organizers.
Notification to Finalists: April 8, 2024
If you are notified as a finalist, we require that at least one member of your team is in attendance at the MCTF Competition Meeting at AAMAS 2024
Finals Round: April 22-26, 2024 (online): Top-ranking entries from the qualifying round play against each other in a round-robin tournament.
Winner(s) Announcements and Half-Day Meeting: May 6-10, 2024 (located at AAMAS in Auckland, NZ)
Competition Organizing Team
John Kliem, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (main POC)
Email: john.kliem3.civ@us.navy.mil
Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Michael (Misha) Novitzky, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
Michael Benjamin, MIT
- Zachary Serlin, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Edward Potrill, Defense Science &Technology Laboratory (DSTL), UK
- David Hubczenko, Defense Science &Technology Group (DSTG), Australia
- Jordan Beason, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
Questions?
Send an email to john.kliem3.civ@us.navy.mil
Post your question on the MCTF@AAMAS2024 Slack Channel