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OpenSocialJax: Evaluating Social Adaptation in Sequential Social Dilemmas with Open-Ended Environmental Dynamics
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arXiv:2610.13710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential social dilemma benchmarks capture diverse social interactions, but rarely test whether agents can infer hidden environmental rules through repeated interaction while adapting to other agents. We introduce \textbf{OpenSocialJax}, which extends Clean Up and Commons Harvest across an open-ended distribution of latent environment configurations, systematically varying spatial layouts and hidden rules governing tool crafting, payoffs, and resource dynamics. Each episode samples one configuration from tens of millions of possibilities and holds it fixed across five trials. We evaluate eight large language models, including three closed source models and five open source models. Our evaluation tests whether models can discover hidden rules and adapt to other agents in homogeneous and mixed teams. We find that rule discovery often improves performance but does not reliably sustain cooperation, as the cleaning burden becomes concentrated among fewer agents in OpenCleanup and every team eventually exhausts the shared resource in OpenHarvest. In our mixed arena, one cooperative agent was able to sustain the public good in OpenCleanup at a cost to its own return, but could not prevent resource depletion in OpenHarvest. Together, these results highlight the difficulty of adapting jointly to unfamiliar environmental dynamics and the changing behavior of other agents.
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