中国科学:信息科学(英文版)2024,Vol.67Issue(8) :98-110.DOI:10.1007/s11432-023-3862-1

Multi-agent policy transfer via task relationship modeling

Rongjun QIN Feng CHEN Tonghan WANG Lei YUAN Xiaoran WU Yipeng KANG Zongzhang ZHANG Chongjie ZHANG Yang YU
中国科学:信息科学(英文版)2024,Vol.67Issue(8) :98-110.DOI:10.1007/s11432-023-3862-1

Multi-agent policy transfer via task relationship modeling

Rongjun QIN 1Feng CHEN 2Tonghan WANG 3Lei YUAN 1Xiaoran WU 4Yipeng KANG 5Zongzhang ZHANG 2Chongjie ZHANG 5Yang YU1
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作者信息

  • 1. National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210000,China;Polixir Technologies,Nanjing 211106,China
  • 2. National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210000,China
  • 3. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  • 4. Department of Computer Science and Technology,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China
  • 5. Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences,Tsinghua University,Beijing,100084,China
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Abstract

Team adaptation to new cooperative tasks is a hallmark of human intelligence,which has yet to be fully realized in learning agents.Previous studies on multi-agent transfer learning have accommodated teams of different sizes but heavily relied on the generalization ability of neural networks for adapting to unseen tasks.We posit that the relationship among tasks provides key information for policy adaptation.We utilize this relationship for efficient transfer by attempting to discover and exploit the knowledge among tasks from different teams,proposing to learn an effect-based task representation as a common latent space among tasks,and using it to build an alternatively fixed training scheme.Herein,we demonstrate that task representation can capture the relationship among teams and generalize to unseen tasks.Thus,the proposed method helps transfer the learned cooperation knowledge to new tasks after training on a few source tasks.Furthermore,the learned transferred policies help solve tasks that are difficult to learn from scratch.

Key words

multi-agent reinforcement learning/cooperative transfer learning/task relationship modeling/multi-agent policy reuse/multi-agent multi-task learning

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基金项目

National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020AAA0107200)

National Natural Science Foundation of China(61876119)

National Natural Science Foundation of China(61921006)

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu(BK20221442)

出版年

2024
中国科学:信息科学(英文版)
中国科学院

中国科学:信息科学(英文版)

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ISSN:1674-733X
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