Cooperative Multi Agent Learning
Cooperative multi-agent learning focuses on designing algorithms that enable multiple agents to collaboratively achieve shared goals, often in complex and dynamic environments. Current research emphasizes improving robustness to unforeseen events like agent malfunctions, enhancing exploration efficiency in sparse-reward scenarios through methods like meta-exploration and optimistic policy updates, and developing efficient communication strategies to reduce computational overhead. These advancements are crucial for deploying multi-agent systems in real-world applications such as robotics, autonomous driving, and distributed sensing, where effective coordination and adaptability are paramount.
Papers
Collaborative Adaptation for Recovery from Unforeseen Malfunctions in Discrete and Continuous MARL Domains
Yasin Findik, Hunter Hasenfus, Reza Azadeh
Relational Q-Functionals: Multi-Agent Learning to Recover from Unforeseen Robot Malfunctions in Continuous Action Domains
Yasin Findik, Paul Robinette, Kshitij Jerath, Reza Azadeh