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ESP: Exploiting Symmetry Prior for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has achieved promising results in recent years. However, most existing reinforcement learning methods require a large amount of data for model training. In addition, data-efficient reinforcement learning requires the construction of strong inductive biases, which are ignored in the current MARL approaches. Inspired by the symmetry phenomenon in multi-agent systems, this paper proposes a framework for exploiting prior knowledge by integrating data augmentation and a well-designed consistency loss into the existing MARL methods. In addition, the proposed framework is model-agnostic and can be applied to most of the current MARL algorithms. Experimental tests on multiple challenging tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Moreover, the proposed framework is applied to a physical multi-robot testbed to show its superiority.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationECAI 2023 - 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, including 12th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, PAIS 2023 - Proceedings
EditorsKobi Gal, Kobi Gal, Ann Nowe, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Roy Fairstein, Roxana Radulescu
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages2946-2953
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781643684369
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Sep 2023
Event26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2023 - Krakow, Poland
Duration: 30 Sep 20234 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume372
ISSN (Print)0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8314

Conference

Conference26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2023
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityKrakow
Period30/09/234/10/23

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