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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has been successful in solving many cooperative challenges. However, classic non-hierarchical MARL algorithms still cannot address various complex multi-agent problems that require hierarchical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Qingxu Fu , Tenghai Qiu , Jianqiang Yi , Zhiqiang Pu , Xiaolin Ai

This paper introduces the deep coordination graph (DCG) for collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning. DCG strikes a flexible trade-off between representational capacity and generalization by factoring the joint value function of all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Wendelin Böhmer , Vitaly Kurin , Shimon Whiteson

Feature transformation enhances downstream task performance by generating informative features through mathematical feature crossing. Despite the advancements in deep learning, feature transformation remains essential for structured data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Tao Zhe , Huazhen Fang , Kunpeng Liu , Qian Lou , Tamzidul Hoque , Dongjie Wang

Value decomposition (VD) has become one of the most prominent solutions in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning. Most existing methods generally explore how to factorize the joint value and minimize the discrepancies between agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Siying Wang , Yang Zhou , Zhitong Zhao , Ruoning Zhang , Jinliang Shao , Wenyu Chen , Yuhua Cheng

Multi-agent reinforcement learning shines as the pinnacle of multi-agent systems, conquering intricate real-world challenges, fostering collaboration and coordination among agents, and unleashing the potential for intelligent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiawei Wang , Jian Zhao , Zhengtao Cao , Ruili Feng , Rongjun Qin , Yang Yu

This work proposes a neural network architecture that learns policies for multiple agent classes in a heterogeneous multi-agent reinforcement setting. The proposed network uses directed labeled graph representations for states, encodes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Douglas De Rizzo Meneghetti , Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi

Value decomposition multi-agent reinforcement learning methods learn the global value function as a mixing of each agent's individual utility functions. Coordination graphs (CGs) represent a higher-order decomposition by incorporating…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yipeng Kang , Tonghan Wang , Xiaoran Wu , Qianlan Yang , Chongjie Zhang

Deep reinforcement learning has been applied successfully to solve various real-world problems and the number of its applications in the multi-agent settings has been increasing. Multi-agent learning distinctly poses significant challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Doug Creighton , Saeid Nahavandi

Robust coordination skills enable agents to operate cohesively in shared environments, together towards a common goal and, ideally, individually without hindering each other's progress. To this end, this paper presents Coordinated QMIX…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Giovanni Minelli , Mirco Musolesi

Decentralized combinatorial optimization in evolving multi-agent systems poses significant challenges, requiring agents to balance long-term decision-making, short-term optimized collective outcomes, while preserving autonomy of interactive…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

Learning to coordinate actions among agents is essential in complicated multi-agent systems. Prior works are constrained mainly by the assumption that all agents act simultaneously, and asynchronous action coordination between agents is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Jingqing Ruan , Linghui Meng , Xuantang Xiong , Dengpeng Xing , Bo Xu

The StarCraft II Multi-Agent Challenge (SMAC) was created to be a challenging benchmark problem for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). SMAC focuses exclusively on the problem of StarCraft micromanagement and assumes that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Muhammad Junaid Khan , Syed Hammad Ahmed , Gita Sukthankar

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been increasingly explored to learn the cooperative policy towards maximizing a certain global reward. Many existing studies take advantage of graph neural networks (GNN) in MARL to propagate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Wenlei Shi , Xinran Wei , Jia Zhang , Xiaoyuan Ni , Arthur Jiang , Jiang Bian , Tie-Yan Liu

In artificial multi-agent systems, the ability to learn collaborative policies is predicated upon the agents' communication skills: they must be able to encode the information received from the environment and learn how to share it with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Emanuele Pesce , Giovanni Montana

Multi-agent teaming achieves better performance when there is communication among participating agents allowing them to coordinate their actions for maximizing shared utility. However, when collaborating a team of agents with different…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Esmaeil Seraj , Zheyuan Wang , Rohan Paleja , Matthew Sklar , Anirudh Patel , Matthew Gombolay

Effective governance and steering of behavior in complex multi-agent systems (MAS) are essential for managing system-wide outcomes, particularly in environments where interactions are structured by dynamic networks. In many applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Qiliang Chen , Babak Heydari

We present a framework combining hierarchical and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approaches to solve coordination problems among a multitude of agents using a semi-decentralized model. The framework extends the multi-agent learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Saurabh Kumar , Pararth Shah , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Larry Heck

Multi-agent settings remain a fundamental challenge in the reinforcement learning (RL) domain due to the partial observability and the lack of accurate real-time interactions across agents. In this paper, we propose a new method based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Donghan Xie , Zhi Wang , Chunlin Chen , Daoyi Dong

Congestion Control (CC), as the core networking task to efficiently utilize network capacity, received great attention and widely used in various Internet communication applications such as 5G, Internet-of-Things, UAN, and more. Various CC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jianing Bai , Tianhao Zhang , Guangming Xie

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown great potential in executing complex tasks, but coordination and safety remain significant challenges. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) offers a promising framework for agent collaboration, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ziqi Jia , Junjie Li , Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang