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 …

Scalable multi-robot collaboration with large language models: Centralized or decentralized systems?

Y Chen, J Arkin, Y Zhang, N Roy… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A flurry of recent work has demonstrated that pre-trained large language models (LLMs) can
be effective task planners for a variety of single-robot tasks. The planning performance of …

Learning in games: a systematic review

RJ Qin, Y Yu - Science China Information Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Game theory studies the mathematical models for self-interested individuals. Nash
equilibrium is arguably the most central solution in game theory. While finding the Nash …

Decompose a task into generalizable subtasks in multi-agent reinforcement learning

Z Tian, R Chen, X Hu, L Li, R Zhang… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract In recent years, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) techniques have
made significant strides in achieving high asymptotic performance in single task. However …

Offline multi-task transfer rl with representational penalization

A Bose, SS Du, M Fazel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.12570, 2024 - arxiv.org
We study the problem of representation transfer in offline Reinforcement Learning (RL),
where a learner has access to episodic data from a number of source tasks collected a …

Hierarchical multi-agent skill discovery

M Yang, Y Yang, Z Lu, W Zhou… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Skill discovery has shown significant progress in unsupervised reinforcement learning. This
approach enables the discovery of a wide range of skills without any extrinsic reward, which …

A survey of progress on cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning in open environment

L Yuan, Z Zhang, L Li, C Guan, Y Yu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.01058, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has gained wide attention in recent years and
has made progress in various fields. Specifically, cooperative MARL focuses on training a …

Fast teammate adaptation in the presence of sudden policy change

Z Zhang, L Yuan, L Li, K Xue, C Jia… - Uncertainty in …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where agents coordinates with
teammate (s) for a shared goal, may sustain non-stationary caused by the policy change of …

Provably (more) sample-efficient offline RL with options

X Hu, H Leung - Advances in Neural Information Processing …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The options framework yields empirical success in long-horizon planning problems of
reinforcement learning (RL). Recent works show that options help improve the sample …

Open and real-world human-AI coordination by heterogeneous training with communication

C Guan, K Xue, C Fan, F Chen, L Zhang… - Frontiers of Computer …, 2025 - Springer
Human-AI coordination aims to develop AI agents capable of effectively coordinating with
human partners, making it a crucial aspect of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning …