English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantum Frog: Emergent Cooperation and Difficulty …

200 papers

Emergent cooperation in classical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning has gained significant attention, particularly in the context of Sequential Social Dilemmas (SSDs). While classical reinforcement learning approaches have demonstrated…

Action selection based on flags is a Reinforcement Learning (RL) exploration policy that improves the exploration of the state space through the use of flags, which can identify the most promising actions to take in each state. The quantum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Filipe Santos , João Paulo Fernandes , Luís Macedo

In this paper, a novel quantum classical hybrid framework is proposed that synergizes quantum with Classical Reinforcement Learning. By leveraging the inherent parallelism of quantum computing, the proposed approach generates robust Q…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sahil Tomar , Shamshe Alam , Sandeep Kumar , Amit Mathur

For over a decade now, robotics and the use of artificial agents have become a common thing.Testing the performance of new path finding or search space optimization algorithms has also become a challenge as they require simulation or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Jerin Paul Selvan , Pravin S. Game

The standard Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) framework primarily focuses on optimizing the performance of large language models using pre-collected prompts. However, collecting prompts that provide comprehensive coverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Rui Zheng , Hongyi Guo , Zhihan Liu , Xiaoying Zhang , Yuanshun Yao , Xiaojun Xu , Zhaoran Wang , Zhiheng Xi , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Hang Li , Yang Liu

Whether uniquely quantum resources confer advantages in fully classical, competitive environments remains an open question. Competitive zero-sum reinforcement learning is particularly challenging, as success requires modelling dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Peiyong Wang , Kieran Hymas , James Quach

Autonomous multi-agent systems such as hospital robots and package delivery drones often operate in highly uncertain environments and are expected to achieve complex temporal task objectives while ensuring safety. While learning-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sheryl Paul , Anand Balakrishnan , Xin Qin , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Collaboration is a key challenge in distributed multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) environments. Learning frameworks for these decentralized systems must weigh the benefits of explicit player coordination against the communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Alexander DeRieux , Walid Saad

The intuitive collaboration of humans and intelligent robots (embodied AI) in the real-world is an essential objective for many desirable applications of robotics. Whilst there is much research regarding explicit communication, we focus on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ali Shafti , Jonas Tjomsland , William Dudley , A. Aldo Faisal

The success of federated learning (FL) ultimately depends on how strategic participants behave under partial observability, yet most formulations still treat FL as a static optimization problem. We instead view FL deployments as governed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dongseok Kim , Hyoungsun Choi , Mohamed Jismy Aashik Rasool , Gisung Oh

A major challenge in multi-agent systems is that the system complexity grows dramatically with the number of agents as well as the size of their action spaces, which is typical in real world scenarios such as autonomous vehicles, robotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Shicong Cen , Fan Chen , Yuejie Chi

Game theory is central to the understanding of competitive interactions arising in many fields, from the social and physical sciences to economics. Recently, as the definition of information is generalized to include entangled quantum…

We investigate multi-agent reinforcement learning for stochastic games with complex tasks, where the reward functions are non-Markovian. We utilize reward machines to incorporate high-level knowledge of complex tasks. We develop an…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Jueming Hu , Jean-Raphael Gaglione , Yanze Wang , Zhe Xu , Ufuk Topcu , Yongming Liu

Understanding the power and limitations of quantum access to data in machine learning tasks is primordial to assess the potential of quantum computing in artificial intelligence. Previous works have already shown that speed-ups in learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Sofiene Jerbi , Arjan Cornelissen , Māris Ozols , Vedran Dunjko

Through multi-agent competition and the sparse high-level objective of winning a race, we find that both agile flight (e.g., high-speed motion pushing the platform to its physical limits) and strategy (e.g., overtaking or blocking) emerge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Vineet Pasumarti , Lorenzo Bianchi , Antonio Loquercio

We address two major challenges of implicit coordination in multi-agent deep reinforcement learning: non-stationarity and exponential growth of state-action space, by combining Deep-Q Networks for policy learning with Nash equilibrium for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Griffin Adams , Sarguna Janani Padmanabhan , Shivang Shekhar

Enormous successes have been made by quantum algorithms during the last decade. In this paper, we combine the quantum game with the problem of data clustering, and then develop a quantum-game-based clustering algorithm, in which data points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Qiang Li , Yan He , Jing-ping Jiang

In this paper, we study the problem of robust cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL) where a large number of cooperative agents with distributed information aim to learn policies in the presence of \emph{stochastic} and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Mathieu Laurière , Alec Koppel , Tamer Başar

The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma has guided research on social dilemmas for decades. However, it distinguishes between only two atomic actions: cooperate and defect. In real-world prisoner's dilemmas, these choices are temporally extended…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Weixun Wang , Jianye Hao , Yixi Wang , Matthew Taylor

We present a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm to solve infinite horizon asymptotic Mean Field Game (MFG) and Mean Field Control (MFC) problems. Our approach can be described as a unified two-timescale Mean Field Q-learning: The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Andrea Angiuli , Jean-Pierre Fouque , Mathieu Laurière