Survey on machine learning for traffic-driven service provisioning in optical networks

T Panayiotou, M Michalopoulou… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented growth of the global Internet traffic, coupled with the large spatio-
temporal fluctuations that create, to some extent, predictable tidal traffic conditions, are …

Independent policy gradient for large-scale markov potential games: Sharper rates, function approximation, and game-agnostic convergence

D Ding, CY Wei, K Zhang… - … Conference on Machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We examine global non-asymptotic convergence properties of policy gradient methods for
multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) problems in Markov potential games (MPGs). To …

Learning mean-field games

X Guo, A Hu, R Xu, J Zhang - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
This paper presents a general mean-field game (GMFG) framework for simultaneous
learning and decision-making in stochastic games with a large population. It first establishes …

Fictitious play for mean field games: Continuous time analysis and applications

S Perrin, J Pérolat, M Laurière… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we deepen the analysis of continuous time Fictitious Play learning algorithm to
the consideration of various finite state Mean Field Game settings (finite horizon, $\gamma …

Animal-in-the-loop: using interactive robotic conspecifics to study social behavior in animal groups

T Landgraf, GHW Gebhardt, D Bierbach… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Biomimetic robots that replace living social interaction partners can help elucidate the
underlying interaction rules in animal groups. Our review focuses on the use of interactive …

Approximately solving mean field games via entropy-regularized deep reinforcement learning

K Cui, H Koeppl - International Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
The recent mean field game (MFG) formalism facilitates otherwise intractable computation of
approximate Nash equilibria in many-agent settings. In this paper, we consider discrete-time …

Learning mean field games: A survey

M Laurière, S Perrin, M Geist, O Pietquin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.12944, 2022 - arxiv.org
Non-cooperative and cooperative games with a very large number of players have many
applications but remain generally intractable when the number of players increases …

[PDF][PDF] Reinforcement learning in stationary mean-field games

J Subramanian, A Mahajan - … of the 18th International Conference on …, 2019 - cim.mcgill.ca
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) refers to systems in which multiple agents are
acting in a common and unknown environment. The presence of other agents makes MARL …

Concave utility reinforcement learning: The mean-field game viewpoint

M Geist, J Pérolat, M Laurière, R Elie, S Perrin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Concave Utility Reinforcement Learning (CURL) extends RL from linear to concave utilities
in the occupancy measure induced by the agent's policy. This encompasses not only RL but …

Model-free mean-field reinforcement learning: mean-field MDP and mean-field Q-learning

R Carmona, M Laurière, Z Tan - The Annals of Applied Probability, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
We study infinite horizon discounted mean field control (MFC) problems with common noise
through the lens of mean field Markov decision processes (MFMDP). We allow the agents to …