Solving vehicle routing problem by memetic search with evolutionary multitasking

Q Shang, Y Huang, Y Wang, M Li, L Feng - Memetic Computing, 2022 - Springer
Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known NP-hard combinational optimization
problem. In the literature, existing approaches can be generally classified into two …

An evolutionary transfer reinforcement learning framework for multiagent systems

Y Hou, YS Ong, L Feng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an evolutionary transfer reinforcement learning framework (eTL) for
developing intelligent agents capable of adapting to the dynamic environment of multiagent …

Automated design of action advising trigger conditions for multiagent reinforcement learning: a genetic programming-based approach

T Wang, X Peng, T Wang, T Liu, D Xu - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Action advising is a popular and effective approach to accelerating independent multiagent
reinforcement learning (MARL), especially for the learning systems that all the agents learn …

Evolutionary multiagent transfer learning with model-based opponent behavior prediction

Y Hou, YS Ong, J Tang, Y Zeng - IEEE transactions on systems …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article embarks a study on multiagent transfer learning (TL) for addressing the specific
challenges that arise in complex multiagent systems where agents have different or even …

Behavior reasoning for opponent agents in multi-agent learning systems

Y Hou, M Sun, W Zhu, Y Zeng, H Piao… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One important component of developing autonomous agents lies in the accurate prediction
of their opponents' behaviors when the agents interact with others in an uncertain …

Advances in memetic automaton: Toward human-like autonomous agents in complex multi-agent learning problems

Y Hou, X Yu, Y Zeng, Z Wei, H Zhang… - IEEE Computational …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The meme-centric memetic automaton (MA) was recently proposed as an adaptive entity or
a software agent wherein memes are defined as the building blocks of knowledge. The …

Experience sharing based memetic transfer learning for multiagent reinforcement learning

T Wang, X Peng, Y Jin, D Xu - Memetic Computing, 2022 - Springer
In transfer learning (TL) for multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL), most popular
methods are based on action advising scheme, in which skilled agents directly transfer …

Memetic multi-agent optimization in high dimensions using random embeddings

Y Hou, N Jiang, H Ge, Q Zhang, X Qu… - 2019 IEEE Congress …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a memetic multi-agent optimization (MeMAO) paradigm to
enhance the search efficacy of classical EAs (ie, Differential Evolution (DE)) in solving the …

SES: a stationary and scalable knowledge transfer approach for multiagent reinforcement learning

T Wang, X Peng, D Xu - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Knowledge transfer is widely adopted in accelerating multiagent reinforcement
learning (MARL). To accelerate the learning speed of MARL for learning-from scratch …

[PDF][PDF] Swarm and Evolutionary Computation

S Das, PN Suganthan, HG Beyer, K Deb, F Herrera… - 2015 - matlabhome.ir
abstract This paper proposed a new methodology to determine the optimal trajectory of the
path for multi-robot in a clutter environment using hybridization of improved particle swarm …