A survey on transfer learning for multiagent reinforcement learning systems

FL Da Silva, AHR Costa - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2019 - jair.org
Multiagent Reinforcement Learning (RL) solves complex tasks that require coordination with
other agents through autonomous exploration of the environment. However, learning a …

Multi-objective workflow scheduling with deep-Q-network-based multi-agent reinforcement learning

Y Wang, H Liu, W Zheng, Y **a, Y Li, P Chen… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud Computing provides an effective platform for executing large-scale and complex
workflow applications with a pay-as-you-go model. Nevertheless, various challenges …

A survey of learning in multiagent environments: Dealing with non-stationarity

P Hernandez-Leal, M Kaisers, T Baarslag… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
The key challenge in multiagent learning is learning a best response to the behaviour of
other agents, which may be non-stationary: if the other agents adapt their strategy as well …

[PDF][PDF] Simultaneously learning and advising in multiagent reinforcement learning

FL Da Silva, R Glatt, AHR Costa - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2017 - aamas.csc.liv.ac.uk
Reinforcement Learning has long been employed to solve sequential decision-making
problems with minimal input data. However, the classical approach requires a large number …

Agents teaching agents: a survey on inter-agent transfer learning

FL Da Silva, G Warnell, AHR Costa, P Stone - Autonomous Agents and …, 2020 - Springer
While recent work in reinforcement learning (RL) has led to agents capable of solving
increasingly complex tasks, the issue of high sample complexity is still a major concern. This …

Traffic signal control using reinforcement learning based on the teacher-student framework

J Liu, S Qin, M Su, Y Luo, S Zhang, Y Wang… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an effective method for adaptive traffic signals control. As
one type of RL, the teacher-student framework has been found helpful in improving the …

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 …

Agent-agnostic human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning

D Abel, J Salvatier, A Stuhlmüller, O Evans - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Providing Reinforcement Learning agents with expert advice can dramatically improve
various aspects of learning. Prior work has developed teaching protocols that enable agents …

Ac-teach: A bayesian actor-critic method for policy learning with an ensemble of suboptimal teachers

A Kurenkov, A Mandlekar, R Martin-Martin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The exploration mechanism used by a Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent plays a key
role in determining its sample efficiency. Thus, improving over random exploration is crucial …

Subtask-masked curriculum learning for reinforcement learning with application to UAV maneuver decision-making

Y Hou, X Liang, M Lv, Q Yang, Y Li - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) maneuver strategy learning remains a challenge
when using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in this sparse reward task. In this paper, we …