arXiv:2608.11658cs.LGcs.AI2026-08

多智能体强化学习中,独立组合策略会失效,新方法确保安全且灵活。

Is Per-Agent Policy Composition Safe? Rethinking Successor-Feature Transfer in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

论文配图:Is Per-Agent Policy Composition Safe? Rethinking Successor-Feature Transfer in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
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  • 分层设计:下层预测队友目标下的继承特征,上层统一协调策略选择
  • 独立组合可能导致整体表现劣于所有库策略,存在理论风险
  • 无需任务微调,一次训练即可部署,适合动态目标场景

许多强化学习系统(如车队管理、交通信号控制)需在部署后应对动态变化的目标,重新训练策略成本过高。单智能体场景中,继承特征与广义策略改进可安全组合已有策略库,生成任意新目标下的策略且性能不低于库中任一策略。但多智能体转移研究较少,常见做法是各智能体独立重组自身策略库,虽沿用方法却失去保证。本文证明,这种独立组合可能使联合行为严格劣于库中所有策略,因重组队友会改变每个智能体所处环境,使其依赖的值函数失效——此问题在单智能体中不存在。我们进一步指出,唯一无条件安全的固定规则是同步组合,即全队切换至单一联合训练策略,但无法处理不同智能体分配不同目标的情况。为兼顾安全与灵活性,提出MA-USFA:两层结构,底层为条件于队友目标的通用继承特征近似器,上层编译器跨智能体选择库条目,并提供单智能体价值无法表达的跨智能体修正。模型在目标分布上一次性训练,部署时无需每任务适应。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Many reinforcement learning systems, from fleet management to traffic signal control, must serve an objective that changes dynamically after deployment, and retraining a policy for each new objective is prohibitively expensive. For a single agent, this problem is well understood: successor features with generalized policy improvement, together with their universal extension, recombine a library of learned policies into a policy for any new objective, with a guarantee that the result is never worse than any policy in the library. However, multi-agent transfer has received far less attention, and the common practice of letting each agent recombine its own library independently inherits the recipe but not the guarantee. We prove that this independent composition can produce joint behavior strictly worse than every policy in the library, because recombining teammates changes the environment each agent faces and invalidates the values it relies on, a failure with no single-agent counterpart. We further show that the only unconditionally safe fixed rule is synchronized composition, which moves the whole team to one jointly trained policy but cannot serve objectives that assign different goals to different agents. To attain safety and flexibility at once, we propose MA-USFA, a hierarchical method with two layers: a lower layer of universal successor feature approximators that predicts each agent's successor features while conditioned on its teammates' objectives, and an upper composer that selects, across agents, which library entry each agent should follow and supplies the cross-agent correction a per-agent value cannot represent. Trained once over the distribution of objectives, it is applied at deployment with no per-task adaptation.

多智能体强化学习策略迁移安全组合

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