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most citedFrom Explicit Communication to Tacit Cooperation:A Novel Paradigm for Cooperative MARL

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cs.LG2025

Subgoal Graph-Augmented Planning for LLM-Guided Open-World Reinforcement Learning

Shanwei Fan, Bin Zhang, Zhiwei Xu +4

Large language models (LLMs) offer strong high-level planning capabilities for reinforcement learning (RL) by decomposing tasks into subgoals. However, their practical utility is l…

cs.MA2024

Beyond Local Views: Global State Inference with Diffusion Models for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhiwei Xu, Hangyu Mao, Nianmin Zhang +8

In partially observable multi-agent systems, agents typically only have access to local observations. This severely hinders their ability to make precise decisions, particularly du…

cs.MA2024★ 1 cited

Knowing What Not to Do: Leverage Language Model Insights for Action Space Pruning in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhihao Liu, Xianliang Yang, Zichuan Liu +7

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is employed to develop autonomous agents that can learn to adopt cooperative or competitive strategies within complex environments. Howeve…

cs.MA2024★ 1 cited

Verco: Learning Coordinated Verbal Communication for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Dapeng Li, Hang Dong, Lu Wang +8

In recent years, multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms have made significant advancements in diverse gaming environments, leading to increased interest in the broader appli…

cs.MA2023

Mastering Complex Coordination through Attention-based Dynamic Graph

Guangchong Zhou, Zhiwei Xu, Zeren Zhang +1

The coordination between agents in multi-agent systems has become a popular topic in many fields. To catch the inner relationship between agents, the graph structure is combined wi…

cs.AI2023

Adaptive parameter sharing for multi-agent reinforcement learning

Dapeng Li, Na Lou, Bin Zhang +2

Parameter sharing, as an important technique in multi-agent systems, can effectively solve the scalability issue in large-scale agent problems. However, the effectiveness of parame…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Controlling Large Language Model-based Agents for Large-Scale Decision-Making: An Actor-Critic Approach

Bin Zhang, Hangyu Mao, Jingqing Ruan +9

The remarkable progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up new avenues for addressing planning and decision-making problems in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). However, as the numb…

cs.MA2023

Stackelberg Decision Transformer for Asynchronous Action Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems

Bin Zhang, Hangyu Mao, Lijuan Li +4

Asynchronous action coordination presents a pervasive challenge in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), which can be represented as a Stackelberg game (SG). However, the scalability of exist…

cs.MA2023★ 4 cited

From Explicit Communication to Tacit Cooperation:A Novel Paradigm for Cooperative MARL

Dapeng Li, Zhiwei Xu, Bin Zhang +1

Centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE) is a widely-used learning paradigm that has achieved significant success in complex tasks. However, partial observability i…

cs.MA2023

SEA: A Spatially Explicit Architecture for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Dapeng Li, Zhiwei Xu, Bin Zhang +1

Spatial information is essential in various fields. How to explicitly model according to the spatial location of agents is also very important for the multi-agent problem, especial…

cs.MA2023

Inducing Stackelberg Equilibrium through Spatio-Temporal Sequential Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Bin Zhang, Lijuan Li, Zhiwei Xu +2

In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), self-interested agents attempt to establish equilibrium and achieve coordination depending on game structure. However, existing MARL a…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Style Miner: Find Significant and Stable Explanatory Factors in Time Series with Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Dapeng Li, Feiyang Pan, Jia He +3

In high-dimensional time-series analysis, it is essential to have a set of key factors (namely, the style factors) that explain the change of the observed variable. For example, vo…

cs.MA2023

Dual Self-Awareness Value Decomposition Framework without Individual Global Max for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhiwei Xu, Bin Zhang, Dapeng Li +3

Value decomposition methods have gained popularity in the field of cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning. However, almost all existing methods follow the principle of Indi…

cs.MA2022★ 1 cited

Consensus Learning for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhiwei Xu, Bin Zhang, Dapeng Li +4

Almost all multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms without communication follow the principle of centralized training with decentralized execution. During centralized trainin…

cs.MA2022★ 3 cited

Mingling Foresight with Imagination: Model-Based Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhiwei Xu, Dapeng Li, Bin Zhang +3

Recently, model-based agents have achieved better performance than model-free ones using the same computational budget and training time in single-agent environments. However, due…

cs.AI2022

Efficient Policy Generation in Multi-Agent Systems via Hypergraph Neural Network

Bin Zhang, Yunpeng Bai, Zhiwei Xu +2

The application of deep reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems introduces extra challenges. In a scenario with numerous agents, one of the most important concerns currently…

cs.AI2021

Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Hypergraph Convolution

Yunpeng Bai, Chen Gong, Bin Zhang +3

Recent years have witnessed the great success of multi-agent systems (MAS). Value decomposition, which decomposes joint action values into individual action values, has been an imp…

cs.MA2021★ 2 cited

HAVEN: Hierarchical Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Dual Coordination Mechanism

Zhiwei Xu, Yunpeng Bai, Bin Zhang +2

Recently, some challenging tasks in multi-agent systems have been solved by some hierarchical reinforcement learning methods. Inspired by the intra-level and inter-level coordinati…

cs.LG2021

The -Divergence Reinforcement Learning Framework

Chen Gong, Qiang He, Yunpeng Bai +6

The framework of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a powerful and widely applicable mathematical formalization for sequential decision-making. This paper present a novel D…

cs.MA2021★ 1 cited

MMD-MIX: Value Function Factorisation with Maximum Mean Discrepancy for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhiwei Xu, Dapeng Li, Yunpeng Bai +1

In the real world, many tasks require multiple agents to cooperate with each other under the condition of local observations. To solve such problems, many multi-agent reinforcement…

cs.MA2021★ 1 cited

SIDE: State Inference for Partially Observable Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhiwei Xu, Yunpeng Bai, Dapeng Li +2

As one of the solutions to the decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP) problems, the value decomposition method has achieved significant results rece…

cs.MA2021

Learning to Coordinate via Multiple Graph Neural Networks

Zhiwei Xu, Bin Zhang, Yunpeng Bai +2

The collaboration between agents has gradually become an important topic in multi-agent systems. The key is how to efficiently solve the credit assignment problems. This paper intr…