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In this paper, we introduce a novel architecture for conditionally activated neural networks combining a hierarchical construction of multiple Mixture of Experts (MoEs) layers with a sampling mechanism that progressively converges to an…

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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has recently emerged as a significant area of research. However, MARL evaluation often lacks systematic diversity, hindering a comprehensive understanding of algorithms' capabilities. In particular,…

Recent works have proven that intricate cooperative behaviors can emerge in agents trained using meta reinforcement learning on open ended task distributions using self-play. While the results are impressive, we argue that self-play and…

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Despite the rapid progress, LLMs for sequential decision-making (i.e., LLM agents) still struggle to produce diverse outputs. This leads to insufficient exploration, convergence to sub-optimal solutions, and becoming stuck in loops. Such…

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Recently, deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has gained significant popularity due to its success in various cooperative multi-agent tasks. However, exploration still remains a challenging problem in MARL due to the partial…

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Sequential reasoning in agent systems has been significantly advanced by large language models (LLMs), yet existing approaches face limitations. Reflection-driven reasoning relies solely on knowledge in pretrained models, limiting…

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Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is emerging as a key framework for various sequential decision-making and control tasks. Unlike their single-agent counterparts, multi-agent systems necessitate successful cooperation among the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jahir Sadik Monon , Deeparghya Dutta Barua , Md. Mosaddek Khan

Individuality is essential in human society, which induces the division of labor and thus improves the efficiency and productivity. Similarly, it should also be the key to multi-agent cooperation. Inspired by that individuality is of being…

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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been successfully applied to optimize the policies for Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks due to their exploration ability. The recently proposed Negatively Correlated Search (NCS) provides a distinct…

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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) faces significant challenges in addressing the hard-exploration problems in tasks with sparse or deceptive rewards and large state spaces. These challenges severely limit the practical application of DRL.…

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The primary objective of Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) is to plan efficient and conflict-free paths for all agents. Traditional multi-agent path planning algorithms struggle to achieve efficient distributed path planning for multiple…

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In collective tree exploration, a team of $k$ mobile agents is tasked to go through all edges of an unknown tree as fast as possible. An edge of the tree is revealed to the team when one agent becomes adjacent to that edge. The agents start…

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Existing value-factorized based Multi-Agent deep Reinforce-ment Learning (MARL) approaches are well-performing invarious multi-agent cooperative environment under thecen-tralized training and decentralized execution(CTDE) scheme,where all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Runsheng Yu , Zhenyu Shi , Xinrun Wang , Rundong Wang , Buhong Liu , Xinwen Hou , Hanjiang Lai , Bo An

Traditional information theory provides a valuable foundation for Reinforcement Learning, particularly through representation learning and entropy maximization for agent exploration. However, existing methods primarily concentrate on…

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Reward engineering and designing an incentive reward function are non-trivial tasks to train agents in complex environments. Furthermore, an inaccurate reward function may lead to a biased behaviour which is far from an efficient and…

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Human players in professional team sports achieve high level coordination by dynamically choosing complementary skills and executing primitive actions to perform these skills. As a step toward creating intelligent agents with this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Jiachen Yang , Igor Borovikov , Hongyuan Zha

In this paper, we propose a new framework for multi-agent collaborative exploration of unknown environments. The proposed method combines state-of-the-art algorithms in mapping, safe corridor generation and multi-agent planning. It first…

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