SORA: Improving Multi-agent Cooperation with a Soft Role Assignment Mechanism

G Zhou, Z Xu, Z Zhang, G Fan - International Conference on Neural …, 2023 - Springer
Role-based multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) holds the promise of achieving
scalable multi-agent cooperation by decomposing complex tasks through the concept of …

Roma: Multi-agent reinforcement learning with emergent roles

T Wang, H Dong, V Lesser, C Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08039, 2020 - arxiv.org
The role concept provides a useful tool to design and understand complex multi-agent
systems, which allows agents with a similar role to share similar behaviors. However …

Effective and stable role-based multi-agent collaboration by structural information principles

X Zeng, H Peng, A Li - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Role-based learning is a promising approach to improving the performance of Multi-Agent
Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Nevertheless, without manual assistance, current role …

Attention-guided contrastive role representations for multi-agent reinforcement learning

Z Hu, Z Zhang, H Li, C Chen, H Ding… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Real-world multi-agent tasks usually involve dynamic team composition with the emergence
of roles, which should also be a key to efficient cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement …

[PDF][PDF] A Multi-agent Cooperative Learning System with Evolution of Social Roles

Q Zhang - researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk
Recent developments in reinforcement learning have been able to derive optimal policies
for sophisticated and capable agents, and shown to achieve human-level performance on a …

Ldsa: Learning dynamic subtask assignment in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning

M Yang, J Zhao, X Hu, W Zhou… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has made prominent progress in
recent years. For training efficiency and scalability, most of the MARL algorithms make all …

Learning to transfer role assignment across team sizes

D Nguyen, P Nguyen, S Venkatesh, T Tran - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent reinforcement learning holds the key for solving complex tasks that demand the
coordination of learning agents. However, strong coordination often leads to expensive …

MDDP: Making Decisions from Different Perspectives in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

W Li, Z Qiu, S Shao, A Song - IEEE Transactions on Games, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has made remarkable progress in recent
years. However, in most MARL methods, agents share a policy or value network, which is …

Multi-Agent Self-Motivated Learning via Role Representation

Y Jin, Q Liu - 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), agents need to reach good
collaboration in an evolving environment. The introduction of the concept of role is an …

[PDF][PDF] MA-MIX: Value Function Decomposition for Cooperative Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Based on Multi-Head Attention Mechanism

Y Niu, H Zhao, L Yu - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference …, 2024 - ifaamas.org
ABSTRACT Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MADRL) is a research field that
combines deep learning and multi-agent reinforcement learning. In complex tasks, a single …