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48 results for multi-agent coordination

CODA resolves coordination issues in offline multi-agent reinforcement learning.

problem Coordination failure in offline multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method Diffusion-based multi-agent trajectory generator for data augmentation.
result CODA resolves coordination pathologies in continuous polynomial games and complex benchmarks.

NeuroMAS treats multi-agent systems as neural networks for scalable, trainable coordination.

problem Designing multi-agent systems as hand-designed workflows is inefficient and inflexible.
method NeuroMAS treats multi-agent systems as a neural network architecture with reinforcement learning for scalable coordination.
result NeuroMAS improves significantly over multi-agent baselines and can be scaled progressively.

New approach treats coordination as an architectural layer to improve LLM-based multi-agent systems.

problem Coordination defects lead to high failure rates in LLM-based multi-agent systems.
method Treats coordination as a configurable architectural layer separable from agent logic and information access.
result Configurations leave distinguishable signatures, enabling architectural reasoning and Pareto frontiers.

A deep RL approach learns multi-agent coordination through dynamic graph communication.

problem Learning collaborative policies in multi-agent systems.
method Connectivity Driven Communication (CDC) approach using graph-based attention mechanisms.
result CDC learns effective collaborative policies and outperforms other methods in cooperative navigation tasks.

ARCO-BO optimizes multi-agent design under heterogeneity, improving efficiency and performance.

problem Heterogeneous multi-agent optimization challenges in resource use and information sharing.
method ARCO-BO integrates a consensus mechanism, budget-aware sampling, and partial input sharing for heterogeneous design spaces.
result ARCO-BO outperforms independent and collaborative BO methods in complex multi-agent settings.

MaxMax Q-Learning improves coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning by refining action selection.

problem Relative over-generalization in decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method MaxMax Q-Learning employs iterative sampling and evaluation of potential next states to refine approximations of ideal state transitions.
result MaxMax Q-Learning frequently outperforms existing baselines, demonstrating enhanced convergence and sample efficiency.

Dynamic meta-learning improves multi-agent communication with natural language.

problem Static population-based approaches struggle with adapting to human partners using natural language.
method Dynamic population-based meta-learning approach.
result Agents outperform all prior work in communicating with seen partners and humans.

This paper proposes a decentralized reinforcement learning method for multi-agent resource allocation.

problem Allocating heterogeneous resources among multiple agents in a decentralized manner.
method Liquid-Graph-Time Clustering-IPPO, integrating dynamic cluster consensus.
result LGTC-IPPO achieves more stable rewards, better coordination, and robust performance.

Intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning aims to address the exploration challenge for sparse-reward tasks. However, the study of exploration methods in transition-dependent multi-agent settings is largely absent from the literature. We aim to take a step towards solving this problem. We present two exploration m…

2019-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This work benchmarks MARL algorithms in cooperative tasks.

problem Lack of evaluation tasks and criteria for comparing MARL algorithms.
method Systematic evaluation of three MARL algorithm classes in diverse cooperative tasks.
result Insights into the effectiveness of different learning approaches.

ATLAS uses LLMs to adaptively trade by optimizing prompts and coordinating agents.

problem Adapting LLMs for real-time financial decision-making in noisy markets.
method ATLAS integrates structured market data, uses Adaptive-OPRO for prompt optimization, and employs multi-agent coordination.
result Adaptive-OPRO consistently outperforms fixed prompts in financial trading.

FACMAC combines deep policy gradients with factored critic for multi-agent reinforcement learning.

problem Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning in discrete and continuous action spaces.
method FACMAC uses a centralised but factored critic, combining per-agent utilities into a joint action-value function.
result FACMAC outperforms MADDPG and other baselines on multi-agent particle environments and StarCraft II tasks.

The behavioral dynamics of multi-agent systems have a rich and orderly structure, which can be leveraged to understand these systems, and to improve how artificial agents learn to operate in them. Here we introduce Relational Forward Models (RFM) for multi-agent learning, networks that can learn to make accurate predic…

2018-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles delays in multi-agent reinforcement learning, improving performance.

problem Challenges in reinforcement learning due to delays in real-world systems.
method Proposes a novel framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning with delays, using Delay-Aware Markov Games and centralized-decentralized training.
result Demonstrates significant improvement in performance with delay-aware multi-agent reinforcement learning.

New methods improve multi-agent reinforcement learning by addressing rotational dynamics.

problem Reproducibility crisis in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method Reframing MARL approaches using Variational Inequalities (VIs) and proposing gradient-based VI methods.
result Significant performance improvements across benchmarks, including better convergence to equilibrium strategies in zero-sum games.

Flexible decentralized MARL framework for cooperative multi-agent learning.

problem Complexity and impracticality of centralized MARL in complicated applications.
method Flexible fully-decentralized actor-critic MARL framework using primal-dual hybrid gradient descent.
result Competitive performance in large-scale cooperative multi-agent environments.

RD-Agent(Q) automates quantitative finance research and development.

problem Challenges in asset return prediction due to high dimensionality and volatility.
method Data-centric multi-agent framework for automated research and development of quantitative strategies.
result Up to 2X higher annualized returns with 70% fewer factors.

Adapts agent strategies on-the-fly for better cross-play in cooperative settings.

problem Cross-play issues between self-play agents and unseen partners.
method Adapts agent strategies using posterior belief updates via Gibbs sampling.
result Achieves strong cross-play in the Hanabi game without prior knowledge of partners' strategies.

QMIX combines per-agent values to create decentralised policies.

problem Training decentralised policies from centralised learning.
method QMIX uses a mixing network to estimate joint action-values as a monotonic combination of per-agent values.
result QMIX significantly outperforms existing methods on the StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge (SMAC).

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…

2019-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework predicts cryptocurrency trends by analyzing news and market data.

problem Cryptocurrency market volatility and news sensitivity challenges prediction accuracy.
method Multi-agent system with three innovations: news analysis, fusion mechanism, and coordination architecture.
result Statistically significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods.

We propose a targeted communication architecture for multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents learn both what messages to send and whom to address them to while performing cooperative tasks in partially-observable environments. This targeting behavior is learnt solely from downstream task-specific reward withou…

2018-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

KVCOMM optimizes multi-agent LLM systems by reusing KV-caches, reducing redundant processing.

problem Substantial overhead from reprocessing overlapping contexts across multi-agent systems.
method KVCOMM reuses KV-caches and adjusts offsets for shared content using a pool of cached examples (anchors).
result Achieves over 70% reuse rate across diverse multi-agent tasks, up to 7.8x speedup.

Through multi-agent competition, the simple objective of hide-and-seek, and standard reinforcement learning algorithms at scale, we find that agents create a self-supervised autocurriculum inducing multiple distinct rounds of emergent strategy, many of which require sophisticated tool use and coordination. We find clea…

2019-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

DePAint solves MARL for agents with local constraints, privacy, and no central controller.

problem Training multi-agent systems to optimize rewards while adhering to safety constraints in a decentralized setting.
method Formulated as a decentralized constrained multi-agent Markov Decision Problem, proposed DePAint method using momentum-based decentralized policy gradient.
result First privacy-preserving fully decentralized MARL algorithm considering both peak and average constraints.

Enhances anomaly detection in financial markets using AI agents.

problem Manual verification of financial market anomalies is time-consuming and error-prone.
method A multi-agent LLM framework for automated anomaly detection.
result Framework reduces human intervention and improves efficiency and accuracy.

JPS improves joint policies for multi-agent collaboration in imperfect information games.

problem Learning good joint policies for multi-agent collaboration with imperfect information.
method Decomposes global changes to localized policy changes, iteratively improving joint policies without re-evaluating the entire game.
result JPS improves solutions provided by unilateral approaches and outperforms algorithms designed for collaborative policy learning.

Most of the prior work on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) achieves optimal collaboration by directly controlling the agents to maximize a common reward. In this paper, we aim to address this from a different angle. In particular, we consider scenarios where there are self-interested agents (i.e., worker agent…

2018-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

A new MARL framework for community-based cooperation with transfer and active exploration.

problem Flexible coordination patterns in multi-agent systems with community structures.
method Community-based multi-agent reinforcement learning with transfer and active exploration.
result Provably convergent actor-critic algorithms for structured information sharing and transfer learning.

A framework for multi-agent communication over noisy channels in reinforcement learning.

problem Effective communication between multiple agents in a noisy environment.
method A novel multi-agent partially observable Markov decision process (MA-POMDP) framework considering noisy communication channels.
result Jointly learned policies outperform separate learning of communication and decision making.