Intrinsic social motivation via causal influence in multi-agent RL

N Jaques, A Lazaridou, E Hughes, C Gulcehre… - 2018 - openreview.net
We derive a new intrinsic social motivation for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), in
which agents are rewarded for having causal influence over another agent's actions, where …

Social influence as intrinsic motivation for multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

N Jaques, A Lazaridou, E Hughes… - International …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We propose a unified mechanism for achieving coordination and communication in Multi-
Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), through rewarding agents for having causal …

Mediated multi-agent reinforcement learning

D Ivanov, I Zisman, K Chernyshev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.08419, 2023 - arxiv.org
The majority of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) literature equates the
cooperation of self-interested agents in mixed environments to the problem of social welfare …

Learning to Share in Networked Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Y Yi, G Li, Y Wang, Z Lu - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we study the problem of networked multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL),
where a number of agents are deployed as a partially connected network and each interacts …

Lazy agents: a new perspective on solving sparse reward problem in multi-agent reinforcement learning

B Liu, Z Pu, Y Pan, J Yi, Y Liang… - … on Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Sparse reward remains a valuable and challenging problem in multi-agent reinforcement
learning (MARL). This paper addresses this issue from a new perspective, ie, lazy agents …

Liir: Learning individual intrinsic reward in multi-agent reinforcement learning

Y Du, L Han, M Fang, J Liu, T Dai… - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A great challenge in cooperative decentralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is
generating diversified behaviors for each individual agent when receiving only a team …

Multi-agent incentive communication via decentralized teammate modeling

L Yuan, J Wang, F Zhang, C Wang, Z Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Effective communication can improve coordination in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement
learning (MARL). One popular communication scheme is exchanging agents' local …

Emergent reciprocity and team formation from randomized uncertain social preferences

B Baker - Advances in neural information processing …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown recent success in increasingly
complex fixed-team zero-sum environments. However, the real world is not zero-sum nor …

Exploration with unreliable intrinsic reward in multi-agent reinforcement learning

W Böhmer, T Rashid, S Whiteson - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02138, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper investigates the use of intrinsic reward to guide exploration in multi-agent
reinforcement learning. We discuss the challenges in applying intrinsic reward to multiple …

Emerging social awareness: Exploring intrinsic motivation in multiagent learning

P Sequeira, FS Melo, R Prada… - 2011 IEEE international …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a novel framework has been proposed for intrinsically motivated reinforcement
learning (IMRL) in which a learning agent is driven by rewards that include not only …