用依赖图建模多智能体动作关系,实现全局最优决策
Action Dependency Graphs for Globally Optimal Coordinated Reinforcement Learning
- 引入动作依赖图(ADG)刻画智能体间动作关联,突破自回归限制
- 理论证明:满足协调图条件的稀疏ADG可保证全局最优
- 兼容主流算法,在复杂场景中验证了强鲁棒性与可扩展性
动作依赖个体策略通过融合环境状态与其他智能体的动作来决策,已成为实现多智能体强化学习(MARL)全局最优的有前景范式。然而,现有方法多采用自回归形式的动作依赖策略,即每个智能体的策略依赖于所有前序智能体的动作,导致随着智能体数量增加而计算复杂度急剧上升,制约可扩展性。本文考虑更广义的动作依赖策略,不强制要求自回归结构。提出使用动作依赖图(ADG)建模智能体间的动作依赖关系。在由协调图结构化的MARL问题中,证明了只要ADG满足协调图指定的特定条件,具有稀疏ADG的动作依赖策略即可实现全局最优。基于此理论基础,设计了一种保证全局最优的表格型策略迭代算法。进一步将该框架集成到多个当前最优算法中,并在复杂环境中进行实验。实证结果证实了该方法在更一般场景下的鲁棒性与适用性,凸显其在更广泛MARL挑战中的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Action-dependent individual policies, which incorporate both environmental states and the actions of other agents in decision-making, have emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving global optimality in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, the existing literature often adopts auto-regressive action-dependent policies, where each agent's policy depends on the actions of all preceding agents. This formulation incurs substantial computational complexity as the number of agents increases, thereby limiting scalability. In this work, we consider a more generalized class of action-dependent policies, which do not necessarily follow the auto-regressive form. We propose to use the `action dependency graph (ADG)' to model the inter-agent action dependencies. Within the context of MARL problems structured by coordination graphs, we prove that an action-dependent policy with a sparse ADG can achieve global optimality, provided the ADG satisfies specific conditions specified by the coordination graph. Building on this theoretical foundation, we develop a tabular policy iteration algorithm with guaranteed global optimality. Furthermore, we integrate our framework into several SOTA algorithms and conduct experiments in complex environments. The empirical results affirm the robustness and applicability of our approach in more general scenarios, underscoring its potential for broader MARL challenges.
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