arXiv Machine Learning

Communication-Enhanced Tutoring for Efficient Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2508. 13661v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) is the dominant paradigm in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), enabling agents to act independently at test time while leveraging additional information during training.

arXiv AI
Jul 1

HyPOLE: Hyperproperty-Guided Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observation

arXiv:2606. 30966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal specification is a powerful tool to guide the learning process and provides significant advantages over reward shaping: (1) mathematical rigor; (2) expressiveness to specify objectives and constraints, and (3) the ability to define tactics to achieve objectives.

By Arshia Rafieioskouei, Tzu-Han Hsu, Matthew Lucas, Borzoo Bonakdarpour
arXiv AI
6d ago

G2MAF: Test-Time Gradient Guidance for Multi-Agent Flow Policies

G2MAF is a test‑time refinement framework for offline multi‑agent reinforcement learning that applies a single globally normalized, projected critic gradient to adjust all agents’ actions while keeping them close to a frozen policy proposal. The method improves performance on 24 Multi‑Party Environment (MPE) and StarCraft Multi‑Agent Challenge (SMAC) benchmarks, achieving mean relative gains of 9.2% on MPE and 8.9% on SMAC, with only a 6% increase in inference latency.

By Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Guoxin Wang, Zhiquan Chen, Beiwen Zhang, Guojie Wang, Hejun Wu