A practical guide to multi-objective reinforcement learning and planning

CF Hayes, R Rădulescu, E Bargiacchi… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2022 - Springer
Real-world sequential decision-making tasks are generally complex, requiring trade-offs
between multiple, often conflicting, objectives. Despite this, the majority of research in …

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 reinforcement learning for online scheduling in smart factories

T Zhou, D Tang, H Zhu, Z Zhang - Robotics and computer-integrated …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid advances in sensing and communication technologies connect isolated
manufacturing units, which generates large amounts of data. The new trend of mass …

Human-guided reinforcement learning with sim-to-real transfer for autonomous navigation

J Wu, Y Zhou, H Yang, Z Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach in unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)
applications, but limited computing resource makes it challenging to deploy a well-behaved …

Multi-objective multi-agent decision making: a utility-based analysis and survey

R Rădulescu, P Mannion, DM Roijers… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2020 - Springer
The majority of multi-agent system implementations aim to optimise agents' policies with
respect to a single objective, despite the fact that many real-world problem domains are …

MO-MIX: Multi-objective multi-agent cooperative decision-making with deep reinforcement learning

T Hu, B Luo, C Yang, T Huang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been applied extensively to solve complex decision-
making problems. In many real-world scenarios, tasks often have several conflicting …

Individual reward assisted multi-agent reinforcement learning

L Wang, Y Zhang, Y Hu, W Wang… - International …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
In many real-world multi-agent systems, the sparsity of team rewards often makes it difficult
for an algorithm to successfully learn a cooperative team policy. At present, the common way …

Comprehensive overview of reward engineering and shaping in advancing reinforcement learning applications

S Ibrahim, M Mostafa, A Jnadi, H Salloum… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) seeks to develop systems capable of autonomous decision-
making by learning through interaction with their environment. Central to this process are …

A multi‐objective multi‐agent deep reinforcement learning approach to residential appliance scheduling

J Lu, P Mannion, K Mason - IET Smart Grid, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Residential buildings are large consumers of energy. They contribute significantly to the
demand placed on the grid, particularly during hours of peak demand. Demand‐side …

Reward shaping in multiagent reinforcement learning for self-organizing systems in assembly tasks

B Huang, Y Jin - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Self-organizing systems feature flexibility and robustness for tasks that may endure changes
over time. Various methods, eg, applying task-field and social-field, have been proposed to …