用离散扩散模型生成多智能体路径初稿,提升密集场景下规划成功率。
Discrete Diffusion for Complex and Congested Multi-Agent Path Finding with Sparse Social Attention

- 用离散扩散模型生成多智能体协同动作初稿,支持稀疏社交注意力机制。
- 在312个智能体的复杂场景中达成95.8%成功率,比最强基线高9.6个百分点。
- 首次将离散扩散用于LNS类路径规划,适合高密度、强冲突环境应用。
多智能体路径规划(MAPF)是在组合优化复杂性下,从各自起点到目标点计算全局一致、无碰撞轨迹的协调问题。在密集环境中,次优初始计划会引发连锁冲突,阻碍后续修复。对于基于修复的求解器如LNS2,初始计划质量对下游修复至关重要,但该因素仍鲜受关注。本文提出DiffLNS,一种融合离散去噪扩散概率模型(D3PM)与LNS2的混合框架。D3PM作为初始化器,采用稀疏社交注意力机制,从专家演示中学习时空联合行动轨迹的先验,并在分类动作空间上采样多个联合计划。该方法保留了MAPF的动作结构,从多模态联合计划分布中生成多样初稿,适合作为邻域修复的热启动。这些初稿作为起点,由下游修复模块完成未完成轨迹并解决剩余冲突,满足硬性MAPF约束。实验表明,尽管仅在最多96个智能体的实例上训练,该初始化器在推理时可泛化至312个智能体的场景。在20个复杂拥挤设置中,DiffLNS平均成功率达95.8%,优于最强基线9.6个百分点,且在全部20个场景中表现持平或超越所有基线。据我们所知,这是首个利用离散扩散为LNS类MAPF求解器提供热启动的工作。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a coordination problem that requires computing globally consistent, collision-free trajectories from individual start positions to assigned goal positions under combinatorial planning complexity. In dense environments, suboptimal initial plans induce compound conflicts that hinder feasible repair. For repair-based solvers like LNS2, initial plan quality critically affects downstream repair, yet this factor remains underexplored. We propose DiffLNS, a hybrid framework that integrates a discrete denoising diffusion probabilistic model (D3PM) with LNS2. The D3PM serves as an initializer with sparse social attention that learns a spatiotemporal prior over coordinated multi-agent action trajectories from expert demonstrations and samples multiple joint plans. Operating directly on the categorical action space, our discrete diffusion preserves the MAPF action structure and samples from a multimodal joint-plan distribution to produce diverse drafts well suited for neighborhood repair. These drafts act as warm starts for downstream repair, which completes unfinished trajectories and resolves remaining conflicts under hard MAPF constraints. Experimental results show that despite being trained only on instances with at most 96 agents, the initializer generalizes to scenarios with up to 312 agents at inference time. Across 20 complex and congested settings, DiffLNS achieves an average success rate of 95.8%, outperforming the strongest tested baseline by 9.6 percentage points and matching or exceeding all baselines in all 20 settings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to leverage discrete diffusion for warm-starting an LNS-based MAPF solver.
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