arXiv:2607.09587cs.RO2026-07

用扩散模型解决多机器人协作中的动作歧义问题。

CoDiMAD: Diffusion-Based Privileged Distillation for Communication-Free Multi-Robot Coordination

论文配图:CoDiMAD: Diffusion-Based Privileged Distillation for Communication-Free Multi-Robot Coordination
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  • 将全局最优策略通过扩散模型蒸馏为局部感知的分布式策略。
  • 在三个任务中超越传统方法,动作选择更果断、协调更一致。
  • 适合需要无通信协同的复杂多机场景,如搜救、编队飞行。

在部分可观测且无通信的多机器人系统中,各智能体仅能依赖本地传感器观测进行决策,协调难度大。传统的特权知识蒸馏方法因采用确定性映射,会将多模态动作分布平均化,导致无效或犹豫的动作。为此,本文提出CoDiMAD——一个三阶段框架:首先用MAPPO训练全局知情的特权代理;其次构建离线数据集,包含局部观测-最优动作对;最后将特权策略以条件去噪扩散概率模型的形式蒸馏给分布式学生。该方法通过扩散逆过程逼近条件动作分布,可从一致的协作模式中采样决定性动作,避免模式平均。理论分析揭示了确定性蒸馏的失败机制与扩散蒸馏的分布恢复能力。在三个协作任务上的实验表明,CoDiMAD显著优于直接局部MARL和确定性蒸馏基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Decentralized multi-robot coordination under partial observability remains challenging, especially in communication-free settings where agents must act solely from local sensor observations. Privileged policy distillation provides a promising approach by transferring knowledge from a globally informed oracle to sensor-constrained students. However, in multi-agent systems, the same local observation may correspond to multiple global configurations requiring qualitatively different cooperative actions, making the conditional action distribution inherently multi-modal. Standard deterministic distillation collapses these modes to their mean, often yielding invalid or hesitant actions. To address this issue, we propose CoDiMAD, a three-stage framework that trains a privileged oracle with MAPPO, constructs an offline dataset of local-observation-oracle-action pairs, and distills the oracle into decentralized students parameterized as conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models. By approximating the conditional oracle-action distribution through the diffusion reverse process, CoDiMAD samples decisive actions from coherent coordination modes rather than averaging across them. Theoretical analysis characterizes the mode-averaging failure of deterministic distillation and the distributional recovery property of diffusion-based distillation. Experiments on three cooperative tasks show that CoDiMAD consistently outperforms direct local MARL and deterministic distillation baselines. The source code will be made publicly available upon acceptance.

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