提出新方法让多智能体在合作中抗干扰且多样化,避免自毁式竞争。
Robust and Diverse Multi-Agent Learning via Rational Policy Gradient
- 设计理性保持机制,防止智能体因对抗训练而自残。
- 通过对手塑造优化,使算法在合作与非零和场景中均有效。
- 适用于需要鲁棒性和多样性的协作任务,如多人游戏与机器人协作。
对抗性优化算法通过主动寻找智能体策略中的漏洞,已在多智能体系统中成功提升策略的鲁棒性与多样性。然而,其在零和场景外的应用受限,尤其在合作环境中易引发关键失败模式:智能体被不合理激励自毁,阻碍任务完成并中断学习。为此,我们提出理性保持策略优化(RPO),一种通过确保智能体策略对潜在伙伴策略最优来维持理性的对抗优化形式。为求解RPO,我们开发了理性策略梯度(RPG),通过对手塑造技术重构原博弈,使智能体在修改后的游戏中最大化自身奖励。RPG可扩展多种现有对抗优化算法,在不再受自毁问题限制的前提下,发现对抗样本、增强鲁棒性与适应性,并学习多样化策略。我们在多个主流合作与一般和环境上实证验证了该方法的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Adversarial optimization algorithms that explicitly search for flaws in agents' policies have been successfully applied to finding robust and diverse policies in multi-agent settings. However, the success of adversarial optimization has been largely limited to zero-sum settings because its naive application in cooperative settings leads to a critical failure mode: agents are irrationally incentivized to self-sabotage, blocking the completion of tasks and halting further learning. To address this, we introduce Rationality-preserving Policy Optimization (RPO), a formalism for adversarial optimization that avoids self-sabotage by ensuring agents remain rational--that is, their policies are optimal with respect to some possible partner policy. To solve RPO, we develop Rational Policy Gradient (RPG), which trains agents to maximize their own reward in a modified version of the original game in which we use opponent shaping techniques to optimize the adversarial objective. RPG enables us to extend a variety of existing adversarial optimization algorithms that, no longer subject to the limitations of self-sabotage, can find adversarial examples, improve robustness and adaptability, and learn diverse policies. We empirically validate that our approach achieves strong performance in several popular cooperative and general-sum environments. Our project page can be found at https://rational-policy-gradient.github.io.
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