提升多智能体强化学习迁移效率,支持不同规模与类型智能体的快速适应。
GCT-MARL: Graph-Based Contrastive Transfer for Sample-Efficient Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

- 基于图对比学习构建多视角表示,结合自适应对齐损失增强迁移能力。
- 在同质与异质场景下均显著加速目标任务收敛,比从零训练快30%以上。
- 支持连续学习,可跨任务链式迁移,适合动态环境中的多智能体系统。
在合作式多智能体强化学习中,为每个新环境或任务从头训练智能体既困难又昂贵。本文提出GCT-MARL,一种基于MAIL的多视角图对比骨干网络的迁移学习框架,引入每视角自适应加权对齐损失,并设计双阶段训练协议,专门用于处理不同规模和组成群体间的迁移。实验表明,该框架在同质(同类内、规模变化)和异质(跨类别、混合单位类型)迁移场景下,相较从零训练显著加速目标任务收敛。此外,通过串联双阶段迁移协议,框架自然支持持续学习。本工作为缓解当前MARL迁移方法的关键局限提供了统一方案,在方法论与实证层面均有新见解。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), from a deployment perspective, it is challenging and expensive to train agents from scratch for each new environment or task. In this work, we propose GCT-MARL, a transfer learning framework that builds on the multi-view graph contrastive backbone of MAIL and augments it with a per-view, adaptively weighted alignment loss and a two-phase training protocol specifically designed for transfer across populations of varying sizes and compositions. We empirically demonstrate that the proposed framework markedly accelerates convergence on the target task relative to from-scratch training, in both homogeneous (within-faction, varying N) and heterogeneous (cross-faction and mixed unit-type) transfer scenarios. Furthermore, we show that the framework naturally supports continual learning by sequentially chaining the two-phase transfer protocol across a series of related tasks. Overall, this work provides a unified approach to mitigating key limitations in current MARL transfer methods with new insights at both methodological and empirical levels.
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