Deep multiagent reinforcement learning: Challenges and directions

A Wong, T Bäck, AV Kononova, A Plaat - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
This paper surveys the field of deep multiagent reinforcement learning (RL). The
combination of deep neural networks with RL has gained increased traction in recent years …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning: a survey

S Gronauer, K Diepold - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
The advances in reinforcement learning have recorded sublime success in various domains.
Although the multi-agent domain has been overshadowed by its single-agent counterpart …

Roma: Multi-agent reinforcement learning with emergent roles

T Wang, H Dong, V Lesser, C Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08039, 2020 - arxiv.org
The role concept provides a useful tool to design and understand complex multi-agent
systems, which allows agents with a similar role to share similar behaviors. However …

Value-decomposition multi-agent actor-critics

J Su, S Adams, P Beling - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
The exploitation of extra state information has been an active research area in multi-agent
reinforcement learning (MARL). QMIX represents the joint action-value using a non-negative …

Influence-based multi-agent exploration

T Wang, J Wang, Y Wu, C Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.05512, 2019 - arxiv.org
Intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning aims to address the exploration challenge for
sparse-reward tasks. However, the study of exploration methods in transition-dependent …

An integrated reinforcement learning and centralized programming approach for online taxi dispatching

E Liang, K Wen, WHK Lam, A Sumalee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Balancing the supply and demand for ride-sourcing companies is a challenging issue,
especially with real-time requests and stochastic traffic conditions of large-scale congested …

Shapley Q-value: A local reward approach to solve global reward games

J Wang, Y Zhang, TK Kim, Y Gu - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
Cooperative game is a critical research area in the multi-agent reinforcement learning
(MARL). Global reward game is a subclass of cooperative games, where all agents aim to …

PIC: permutation invariant critic for multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

IJ Liu, RA Yeh, AG Schwing - Conference on Robot Learning, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Sample efficiency and scalability to a large number of agents are two important goals for
multi-agent reinforcement learning systems. Recent works got us closer to those goals …

The emergence of adversarial communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning

J Blumenkamp, A Prorok - Conference on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many real-world problems require the coordination of multiple autonomous agents. Recent
work has shown the promise of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn explicit …

Cm3: Cooperative multi-goal multi-stage multi-agent reinforcement learning

J Yang, A Nakhaei, D Isele, K Fujimura… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
A variety of cooperative multi-agent control problems require agents to achieve individual
goals while contributing to collective success. This multi-goal multi-agent setting poses …