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In this paper we consider the problem of coordinating robotic systems with different kinematics, sensing and vision capabilities to achieve certain mission goals. An approach that makes use of a heterogeneous team of agents has several…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Nicola Bezzo , Joshua P. Hecker , Karl Stolleis , Melanie E. Moses , Rafael Fierro

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is crucial for AI systems that operate collaboratively in distributed and adversarial settings, particularly in multi-domain operations (MDO). A central challenge in cooperative MARL is determining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nikunj Gupta , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Coordinating large populations of interacting agents is a central challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where the size of the joint state-action space scales exponentially with the number of agents. Mean-field methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Emile Anand , Richard Hoffmann , Sarah Liaw , Adam Wierman

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) extends (single-agent) reinforcement learning (RL) by introducing additional agents and (potentially) partial observability of the environment. Consequently, algorithms for solving MARL problems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Yilun Zhou , Derrik E. Asher , Nicholas R. Waytowich , Julie A. Shah

Navigating heterogeneous traffic environments with diverse driving styles poses a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to their inherent complexity and dynamic interactions. This paper addresses this challenge by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Qi Liu , Xueyuan Li , Zirui Li , Juhui Gim

Transfer reinforcement learning (RL) aims at improving the learning efficiency of an agent by exploiting knowledge from other source agents trained on relevant tasks. However, it remains challenging to transfer knowledge between different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Mohammadamin Barekatain , Ryo Yonetani , Masashi Hamaya

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has achieved great progress in cooperative tasks in recent years. However, in the local reward scheme, where only local rewards for each agent are given without global rewards shared by all the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yunbo Qiu , Yue Jin , Lebin Yu , Jian Wang , Xudong Zhang

The recent progress in multi-agent deep reinforcement learning(MADRL) makes it more practical in real-world tasks, but its relatively poor scalability and the partially observable constraints raise challenges to its performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Zhenhui Ye , Xiaohong Jiang , Guanghua Song , Bowei Yang

Autonomous vehicles trained through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) have shown impressive results in many driving scenarios. However, the performance of these trained policies can be impacted when faced with diverse driving styles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Liu Weiwei , Hu Wenxuan , Jing Wei , Lei Lanxin , Gao Lingping , Liu Yong

One of the roadblocks for training generalist robotic models today is heterogeneity. Previous robot learning methods often collect data to train with one specific embodiment for one task, which is expensive and prone to overfitting. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lirui Wang , Xinlei Chen , Jialiang Zhao , Kaiming He

Using entropy as a measure of heterogeneity to guide optimization has emerged as a crucial research direction in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs. However, existing methods typically treat it as a discrete filter or post-hoc regulator rather…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zheng Liu , Mengjie Liu , Siwei Wen , Mengzhang Cai , Bin Cui , Conghui He , Wentao Zhang

Navigating safely and efficiently in dense and heterogeneous traffic scenarios is challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to their inability to infer the behaviors or intentions of nearby drivers. In this work, we introduce a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiyang Wu , Rohan Chandra , Tianrui Guan , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

For a control problem with multiple conflicting objectives, there exists a set of Pareto-optimal policies called the Pareto set instead of a single optimal policy. When a multi-objective control problem is continuous and complex,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Tianye Shu , Ke Shang , Cheng Gong , Yang Nan , Hisao Ishibuchi

Adversarial object rearrangement in the real world (e.g., previously unseen or oversized items in kitchens and stores) could benefit from understanding task scenes, which inherently entail heterogeneous components such as current objects,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xibai Lou , Houjian Yu , Ross Worobel , Yang Yang , Changhyun Choi

Over the past few decades, machine learning has been widely used to learn complex tasks. Reinforcement Learning (RL), inspired by human behavior, is a great example, as it involves developing specific behaviours for specific tasks. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Quentin Vacher , Nicolas Beuve , Mickaël Dardaillon , Karol Desnos

Meta-learning is a general approach to equip machine learning models with the ability to handle few-shot scenarios when dealing with many tasks. Most existing meta-learning methods work based on the assumption that all tasks are of equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhaofeng Si , Shu Hu , Kaiyi Ji , Siwei Lyu

A significant element of human cooperative intelligence lies in our ability to identify opportunities for fruitful collaboration; and conversely to recognise when the task at hand is better pursued alone. Research on flexible cooperation in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Max Taylor-Davies , Neil Bramley , Christopher G. Lucas

Recently, with the development of Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) has achieved satisfactory results. In traffic scenarios with multiple intersections, MARL treats each intersection as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kailing Zhou , Chengwei Zhang , Furui Zhan , Wanting Liu , Yihong Li

We consider model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) in 2-agent, high-fidelity continuous control problems -- an important domain for robots interacting with other agents in the same workspace. For non-trivial dynamical systems, MBRL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Orr Krupnik , Igor Mordatch , Aviv Tamar

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has emerged as a powerfulparadigm for cooperative decision-making in connected autonomous vehicles(CAVs); however, existing approaches often fail to guarantee stability, optimality,and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Mazyar Taghavi , Javad Vahidi