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A method to minimize regret in multi-agent control systems with adversarial disturbances.
Study uses multi-agent reinforcement learning to control self-assembly with high-resolution external control.
This paper improves MARL for networked systems through new protocols and discount factors.
Policy-gradient method controls multiple non-cohesive targets.
Fairness is essential for human society, contributing to stability and productivity. Similarly, fairness is also the key for many multi-agent systems. Taking fairness into multi-agent learning could help multi-agent systems become both efficient and stable. However, learning efficiency and fairness simultaneously is a …
Improves data efficiency in multi-agent control tasks using model-based reinforcement learning.
Hierarchical AI multi-agent framework optimizes equity portfolios in China's A-share market.
DePAint solves MARL for agents with local constraints, privacy, and no central controller.
In this paper, we explore using deep reinforcement learning for problems with multiple agents. Most existing methods for deep multi-agent reinforcement learning consider only a small number of agents. When the number of agents increases, the dimensionality of the input and control spaces increase as well, and these met…
This work enables UAVs to autonomously form desired trajectories without needing a central plan.
New algorithm reduces learning regret in multi-agent systems with unknown dynamics.
While multi-agent interactions can be naturally modeled as a graph, the environment has traditionally been considered as a black box. We propose to create a shared agent-entity graph, where agents and environmental entities form vertices, and edges exist between the vertices which can communicate with each other. Agent…
A variety of cooperative multi-agent control problems require agents to achieve individual goals while contributing to collective success. This multi-goal multi-agent setting poses difficulties for recent algorithms, which primarily target settings with a single global reward, due to two new challenges: efficient explo…
The paper tackles cooperative RL with function approximation, achieving near-optimal learning with limited communication.
Centralised training with decentralised execution is an important setting for cooperative deep multi-agent reinforcement learning due to communication constraints during execution and computational tractability in training. In this paper, we analyse value-based methods that are known to have superior performance in com…
IG-RL learns adaptive traffic signals for any network, outperforming existing methods.
A new framework uses deep reinforcement learning to improve aircraft separation in busy airspace.
In this paper, we show synchronization for a group of output passive agents that communicate with each other according to an underlying communication graph to achieve a common goal. We propose a distributed event-triggered control framework that will guarantee synchronization and considerably decrease the required comm…
Deep learning has enabled traditional reinforcement learning methods to deal with high-dimensional problems. However, one of the disadvantages of deep reinforcement learning methods is the limited exploration capacity of learning agents. In this paper, we introduce an approach that integrates human strategies to increa…
Deep actor-critic learning optimizes power control in mobile networks.
Paper tackles delays in multi-agent reinforcement learning, improving performance.
CODA resolves coordination issues in offline multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Multi-agent coordination is prevalent in many real-world applications. However, such coordination is challenging due to its combinatorial nature. An important observation in this regard is that agents in the real world often only directly affect a limited set of neighbouring agents. Leveraging such loose couplings amon…
The capability to learn and adapt to changes in the driving environment is crucial for developing autonomous driving systems that are scalable beyond geo-fenced operational design domains. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a promising and scalable framework for developing adaptive learning based solutions. Deep…
Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas is a world-wide problem that can be ameliorated by traffic lights that respond dynamically to real-time conditions. Recent studies applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize single traffic lights have shown significant improvement over conventional control. However, o…
This paper proposes using variational autoencoders to model opponents in multi-agent systems.
Study on limits of LLM-based multi-agent planning reliability.
Researchers develop multi-agent systems for quadcopters to collaborate in missions.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising data-driven approach for adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) in complex urban traffic networks, and deep neural networks further enhance its learning power. However, centralized RL is infeasible for large-scale ATSC due to the extremely high dimension of the joint action sp…
Study uses AUVs and RL to map river plumes over multiple days.
Solving tasks with sparse rewards is one of the most important challenges in reinforcement learning. In the single-agent setting, this challenge is addressed by introducing intrinsic rewards that motivate agents to explore unseen regions of their state spaces; however, applying these techniques naively to the multi-age…
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a learning paradigm concerned with learning to control a system so as to maximize an objective over the long term. This approach to learning has received immense interest in recent times and success manifests itself in the form of human-level performance on games like \textit{Go}. While R…
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has long been a significant and everlasting research topic in both machine learning and control. With the recent development of (single-agent) deep RL, there is a resurgence of interests in developing new MARL algorithms, especially those that are backed by theoretical analysis…
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently received considerable attention due to its applicability to a wide range of real-world applications. However, achieving efficient communication among agents has always been an overarching problem in MARL. In this work, we propose Variance Based Control (VBC), a sim…
ReF-ER algorithm improved performance in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
In the last few years, deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) has become a highly active area of research. A particularly challenging class of problems in this area is partially observable, cooperative, multi-agent learning, in which teams of agents must learn to coordinate their behaviour while conditioning only…
Method models other agents' behaviors without requiring direct observation.
This paper combines RL with CPPI and TIPP for better trading strategies.
Study on multi-agent decision making complexity, showing sample efficiency gaps.
Proposes three decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms to reduce network congestion.
A deep RL approach learns multi-agent coordination through dynamic graph communication.
Learning when to communicate and doing that effectively is essential in multi-agent tasks. Recent works show that continuous communication allows efficient training with back-propagation in multi-agent scenarios, but have been restricted to fully-cooperative tasks. In this paper, we present Individualized Controlled Co…
In this paper, we develop a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework to obtain online power control policies for a large energy harvesting (EH) multiple access channel, when only causal information about the EH process and wireless channel is available. In the proposed framework, we model the online power co…
ARCO-BO optimizes multi-agent design under heterogeneity, improving efficiency and performance.
The paper considers a class of multi-agent Markov decision processes (MDPs), in which the network agents respond differently (as manifested by the instantaneous one-stage random costs) to a global controlled state and the control actions of a remote controller. The paper investigates a distributed reinforcement learnin…
Asynchronous stochastic approximations (SAs) are an important class of model-free algorithms, tools and techniques that are popular in multi-agent and distributed control scenarios. To counter Bellman's curse of dimensionality, such algorithms are coupled with function approximations. Although the learning/ control pro…
Study proposes a multi-agent system using LLMs for REIT trading, outperforming benchmarks.
New AI governance framework tackles risks in finance.