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Meta-Offline and Distributional Multi-Agent RL for Risk-Aware Decision-Making

Multiagent Systems 2026-04-23 v2

Abstract

Mission critical applications, such as UAV-assisted IoT networks require risk-aware decision-making under dynamic topologies and uncertain channels. We propose meta-conservative quantile regression (M-CQR), a meta-offline distributional MARL algorithm that integrates conservative Q-learning (CQL) for safe offline learning, quantile regression DQN (QR-DQN) for risk-sensitive value estimation, and model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) for rapid adaptation. Two variants are developed: meta-independent CQR (M-I-CQR) and meta-CTDE-CQR. In a UAV-based communication scenario, M-CTDE-CQR achieves up to 50% faster convergence and outperforms baseline MARL methods, offering improved scalability, robustness, and adaptability for risk-sensitive decision-making. Code is available at https://github.com/Eslam211/MA_Meta_ODRL

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@article{arxiv.2501.16098,
  title  = {Meta-Offline and Distributional Multi-Agent RL for Risk-Aware Decision-Making},
  author = {Eslam Eldeeb and Hirley Alves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16098},
  year   = {2026}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-28T21:19:44.467Z