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In many real-world settings, a team of agents must coordinate their behaviour while acting in a decentralised way. At the same time, it is often possible to train the agents in a centralised fashion in a simulated or laboratory setting,…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on node classification tasks but remain difficult to interpret, particularly with respect to which input features drive their predictions. Existing global GNN explainers operate at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rishi Raj Sahoo , Subhankar Mishra

Many score-based active learning methods have been successfully applied to graph-structured data, aiming to reduce the number of labels and achieve better performance of graph neural networks based on predefined score functions. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yinchuan Li , Zhigang Li , Wenqian Li , Yunfeng Shao , Yan Zheng , Jianye Hao

Deep neural networks (DNN) can approximate value functions or policies for reinforcement learning, which makes the reinforcement learning algorithms more powerful. However, some DNNs, such as convolutional neural networks (CNN), cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yizhan Niu , Jinglong Liu , Yuhao Shi , Jiren Zhu

In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), it is challenging for a collection of agents to learn complex temporally extended tasks. The difficulties lie in computational complexity and how to learn the high-level ideas behind reward…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jueming Hu , Zhe Xu , Weichang Wang , Guannan Qu , Yutian Pang , Yongming Liu

Value function factorization via centralized training and decentralized execution is promising for solving cooperative multi-agent reinforcement tasks. One of the approaches in this area, QMIX, has become state-of-the-art and achieved the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Hanhan Zhou , Tian Lan , Vaneet Aggarwal

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning representations of graph-structured data. In addition to real-valued GNNs, quaternion GNNs also perform well on tasks on graph-structured data. With the aim of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Rucha Bhalchandra Joshi , Sagar Prakash Barad , Nidhi Tiwari , Subhankar Mishra

We develop and implement two realizations of quantum graph neural networks (QGNN), applied to the task of particle interaction simulation. The first QGNN is a speculative quantum-classical hybrid learning model that relies on the ability to…

Potential-based reward shaping provides an approach for designing good reward functions, with the purpose of speeding up learning. However, automatically finding potential functions for complex environments is a difficult problem (in fact,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Martin Klissarov , Doina Precup

Factorization machine (FM) is a prevalent approach to modeling pairwise (second-order) feature interactions when dealing with high-dimensional sparse data. However, on the one hand, FM fails to capture higher-order feature interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Shu Wu , Zekun Li , Yunyue Su , Zeyu Cui , Xiaoyu Zhang , Liang Wang

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in tackling combinatorial optimization problems. However, existing methods still suffer from limited accuracy when addressing that on complex graphs and exhibit poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuyao Long

Multi-agent value-based approaches recently make great progress, especially value decomposition methods. However, there are still a lot of limitations in value function factorization. In VDN, the joint action-value function is the sum of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Quanlin Chen

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully applied to recommender systems. In recommender systems, the user's feedback behavior on an item is usually the result of multiple factors acting at the same time. However, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Dongbo Xi , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yongchun Zhu , Pengpeng Zhao , Xiangliang Zhang , Qing He

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success on multiple graph-based learning tasks by fusing network structure and node features. Modern GNN models are built upon iterative aggregation of neighbor's/proximity features by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Susheel Suresh , Vinith Budde , Jennifer Neville , Pan Li , Jianzhu Ma

Graph data are pervasive in many real-world applications. Recently, increasing attention has been paid on graph neural networks (GNNs), which aim to model the local graph structures and capture the hierarchical patterns by aggregating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Kwei-Herng Lai , Daochen Zha , Kaixiong Zhou , Xia Hu

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

To promote cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, the reward signals of all agents can be aggregated together, forming global rewards that are commonly known as the fully cooperative setting. However, global rewards are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Bang Giang Le , Viet Cuong Ta

In fully cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) settings, the environments are highly stochastic due to the partial observability of each agent and the continuously changing policies of the other agents. To address the above…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Wei-Fang Sun , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Chun-Yi Lee

Generative learning has advanced network neuroscience, enabling tasks like graph super-resolution, temporal graph prediction, and multimodal brain graph fusion. However, current methods, mainly based on graph neural networks (GNNs), focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mayssa Soussia , Yijun Lin , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Islem Rekik

Knowledge representation learning has been commonly adopted to incorporate knowledge graph (KG) into various online services. Although existing knowledge representation learning methods have achieved considerable performance improvement,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Binbin Hu , Zhiyang Hu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Chuan Shi