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Automatic Reward Shaping from Multi-Objective Human Heuristics
Yuqing Xie, Jiayu Chen, Wenhao Tang +3
Designing effective reward functions remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning, especially in multi-objective environments. In this work, we propose Multi-Objective Rew…
Multi-UAV Formation Control with Static and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance via Reinforcement Learning
Yuqing Xie, Chao Yu, Hongzhi Zang +7
This paper tackles the challenging task of maintaining formation among multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while avoiding both static and dynamic obstacles during directed fli…
Online Planning for Multi-UAV Pursuit-Evasion in Unknown Environments Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Jiayu Chen, Chao Yu, Guosheng Li +6
Multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where pursuers aim to capture evaders, poses a key challenge for UAV swarm intelligence. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has demonstrated poten…
LLM-Powered Hierarchical Language Agent for Real-time Human-AI Coordination
Jijia Liu, Chao Yu, Jiaxuan Gao +4
AI agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant advances, enabling them to assist humans in diverse complex tasks and leading to a revolution in human-AI co…
A Dual Curriculum Learning Framework for Multi-UAV Pursuit-Evasion in Diverse Environments
Jiayu Chen, Guosheng Li, Chao Yu +4
This paper addresses multi-UAV pursuit-evasion, where a group of drones cooperates to capture a fast evader in a confined environment with obstacles. Existing heuristic algorithms,…
MASP: Scalable GNN-based Planning for Multi-Agent Navigation
Xinyi Yang, Xinting Yang, Chao Yu +4
We investigate multi-agent navigation tasks, where multiple agents need to reach initially unassigned goals in a limited time. Classical planning-based methods suffer from expensiv…
Active Neural Topological Mapping for Multi-Agent Exploration
Xinyi Yang, Yuxiang Yang, Chao Yu +5
This paper investigates the multi-agent cooperative exploration problem, which requires multiple agents to explore an unseen environment via sensory signals in a limited time. A po…
Fictitious Cross-Play: Learning Global Nash Equilibrium in Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Games
Zelai Xu, Yancheng Liang, Chao Yu +2
Self-play (SP) is a popular multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework for solving competitive games, where each agent optimizes policy by treating others as part of the e…
Language Agents with Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Play in the Werewolf Game
Zelai Xu, Chao Yu, Fei Fang +2
Agents built with large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential across a wide range of domains. However, in complex decision-making tasks, pure LLM-based agents tend to e…
Accelerate Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Zero-Sum Games with Subgame Curriculum Learning
Jiayu Chen, Zelai Xu, Yunfei Li +6
Learning Nash equilibrium (NE) in complex zero-sum games with multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) can be extremely computationally expensive. Curriculum learning is an effect…
OmniDrones: An Efficient and Flexible Platform for Reinforcement Learning in Drone Control
Botian Xu, Feng Gao, Chao Yu +3
In this work, we introduce OmniDrones, an efficient and flexible platform tailored for reinforcement learning in drone control, built on Nvidia's Omniverse Isaac Sim. It employs a…
Learning Graph-Enhanced Commander-Executor for Multi-Agent Navigation
Xinyi Yang, Shiyu Huang, Yiwen Sun +5
This paper investigates the multi-agent navigation problem, which requires multiple agents to reach the target goals in a limited time. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) ha…
Learning Zero-Shot Cooperation with Humans, Assuming Humans Are Biased
Chao Yu, Jiaxuan Gao, Weilin Liu +5
There is a recent trend of applying multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to train an agent that can cooperate with humans in a zero-shot fashion without using any human data.…
Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Real-Time Multi-Robot Cooperative Exploration
Chao Yu, Xinyi Yang, Jiaxuan Gao +8
We consider the problem of cooperative exploration where multiple robots need to cooperatively explore an unknown region as fast as possible. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MA…
Variational Automatic Curriculum Learning for Sparse-Reward Cooperative Multi-Agent Problems
Jiayu Chen, Yuanxin Zhang, Yuanfan Xu +5
We introduce a curriculum learning algorithm, Variational Automatic Curriculum Learning (VACL), for solving challenging goal-conditioned cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learn…
Learning Efficient Multi-Agent Cooperative Visual Exploration
Chao Yu, Xinyi Yang, Jiaxuan Gao +3
We tackle the problem of cooperative visual exploration where multiple agents need to jointly explore unseen regions as fast as possible based on visual signals. Classical planning…
Discovering Diverse Multi-Agent Strategic Behavior via Reward Randomization
Zhenggang Tang, Chao Yu, Boyuan Chen +6
We propose a simple, general and effective technique, Reward Randomization for discovering diverse strategic policies in complex multi-agent games. Combining reward randomization a…
The Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative, Multi-Agent Games
Chao Yu, Akash Velu, Eugene Vinitsky +4
Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is a ubiquitous on-policy reinforcement learning algorithm but is significantly less utilized than off-policy learning algorithms in multi-agent…
SQLFlow: A Bridge between SQL and Machine Learning
Yi Wang, Yang Yang, Weiguo Zhu +11
Industrial AI systems are mostly end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflows. A typical recommendation or business intelligence system includes many online micro-services and offlin…