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Out-of-Distribution Generalisation with Sequence Models in Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Oussama Hidaoui, Omer Ebead, Ulrich Armel Mbou Sob +14
Generalising to unseen tasks remains a fundamental challenge in offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). In this work, we present a principled analysis of zero-shot task…
Self-Supervised On-Policy Reinforcement Learning via Contrastive Proximal Policy Optimisation
Asim Osman, Sasha Abramowitz, Mark Bergh +13
Contrastive reinforcement learning (CRL) learns goal-conditioned Q-values through a contrastive objective over state-action and goal representations, removing the need for hand-cra…
Oryx: a Scalable Sequence Model for Many-Agent Coordination in Offline MARL
Claude Formanek, Omayma Mahjoub, Louay Ben Nessir +10
A key challenge in offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is achieving effective many-agent multi-step coordination in complex environments. In this work, we propose Ory…
Breaking the Performance Ceiling in Reinforcement Learning requires Inference Strategies
Felix Chalumeau, Daniel Rajaonarivonivelomanantsoa, Ruan de Kock +12
Reinforcement learning (RL) systems have countless applications, from energy-grid management to protein design. However, such real-world scenarios are often extremely difficult, co…
Memory-Enhanced Neural Solvers for Routing Problems
Felix Chalumeau, Refiloe Shabe, Noah De Nicola +3
Routing Problems are central to many real-world applications, yet remain challenging due to their (NP-)hard nature. Amongst existing approaches, heuristics often offer the best tra…
Synergizing Quality-Diversity with Descriptor-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Maxence Faldor, Félix Chalumeau, Manon Flageat +1
A hallmark of intelligence is the ability to exhibit a wide range of effective behaviors. Inspired by this principle, Quality-Diversity algorithms, such as MAP-Elites, are evolutio…
Combinatorial Optimization with Policy Adaptation using Latent Space Search
Felix Chalumeau, Shikha Surana, Clement Bonnet +4
Combinatorial Optimization underpins many real-world applications and yet, designing performant algorithms to solve these complex, typically NP-hard, problems remains a significant…
QDax: A Library for Quality-Diversity and Population-based Algorithms with Hardware Acceleration
Felix Chalumeau, Bryan Lim, Raphael Boige +7
QDax is an open-source library with a streamlined and modular API for Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization algorithms in Jax. The library serves as a versatile tool for optimization…
MAP-Elites with Descriptor-Conditioned Gradients and Archive Distillation into a Single Policy
Maxence Faldor, Félix Chalumeau, Manon Flageat +1
Quality-Diversity algorithms, such as MAP-Elites, are a branch of Evolutionary Computation generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, that have been successfu…
The Quality-Diversity Transformer: Generating Behavior-Conditioned Trajectories with Decision Transformers
Valentin Macé, Raphaël Boige, Felix Chalumeau +3
In the context of neuroevolution, Quality-Diversity algorithms have proven effective in generating repertoires of diverse and efficient policies by relying on the definition of a b…
Assessing Quality-Diversity Neuro-Evolution Algorithms Performance in Hard Exploration Problems
Felix Chalumeau, Thomas Pierrot, Valentin Macé +4
A fascinating aspect of nature lies in its ability to produce a collection of organisms that are all high-performing in their niche. Quality-Diversity (QD) methods are evolutionary…
Empirical analysis of PGA-MAP-Elites for Neuroevolution in Uncertain Domains
Manon Flageat, Felix Chalumeau, Antoine Cully
Quality-Diversity algorithms, among which MAP-Elites, have emerged as powerful alternatives to performance-only optimisation approaches as they enable generating collections of div…
Neuroevolution is a Competitive Alternative to Reinforcement Learning for Skill Discovery
Felix Chalumeau, Raphael Boige, Bryan Lim +5
Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training neural policies to solve complex control tasks. However, these policies tend to be overfit to the e…
SeaPearl: A Constraint Programming Solver guided by Reinforcement Learning
Félix Chalumeau, Ilan Coulon, Quentin Cappart +1
The design of efficient and generic algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems has been an active field of research for many years. Standard exact solving approache…