A review of safe reinforcement learning: Methods, theory and applications

S Gu, L Yang, Y Du, G Chen, F Walter, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision
making tasks. When it comes to deploying RL in the real world, safety concerns are usually …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning: Methods, applications, visionary prospects, and challenges

Z Zhou, G Liu, Y Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.10091, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a widely used Artificial Intelligence (AI)
technique. However, current studies and applications need to address its scalability, non …

Safe multi-agent reinforcement learning for multi-robot control

S Gu, JG Kuba, Y Chen, Y Du, L Yang, A Knoll… - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
A challenging problem in robotics is how to control multiple robots cooperatively and safely
in real-world applications. Yet, developing multi-robot control methods from the perspective …

Optimizing Long-Term Efficiency and Fairness in Ride-Hailing under Budget Constraint via Joint Order Dispatching and Driver Repositioning

J Sun, H Jin, Z Yang, L Su - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ride-hailing platforms (eg, Uber and Didi Chuxing) have become increasingly popular in
recent years. Efficiency has always been an important metric for such platforms. However …

A faster decentralized algorithm for nonconvex minimax problems

W Xian, F Huang, Y Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we study the nonconvex-strongly-concave minimax optimization problem on
decentralized setting. The minimax problems are attracting increasing attentions because of …

Multi-agent constrained policy optimisation

S Gu, JG Kuba, M Wen, R Chen, Z Wang, Z Tian… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Developing reinforcement learning algorithms that satisfy safety constraints is becoming
increasingly important in real-world applications. In multi-agent reinforcement learning …

Taming communication and sample complexities in decentralized policy evaluation for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning

X Zhang, Z Liu, J Liu, Z Zhu… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has received increasing attention in
recent years and has found many scientific and engineering applications. However, a key …

Scalable primal-dual actor-critic method for safe multi-agent rl with general utilities

D Ying, Y Zhang, Y Ding, A Koppel… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We investigate safe multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents seek to collectively
maximize an aggregate sum of local objectives while satisfying their own safety constraints …

Stability and generalization of the decentralized stochastic gradient descent ascent algorithm

M Zhu, L Shen, B Du, D Tao - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The growing size of available data has attracted increasing interest in solving minimax
problems in a decentralized manner for various machine learning tasks. Previous theoretical …

Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges

K Garg, S Zhang, O So, C Dawson, C Fan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In this survey, we review the recent advances in control design methods for robotic multi-
agent systems (MAS), focusing on learning-based methods with safety considerations. We …