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App. Res. of Comp. Printed Article
Vol. 41, 2024 No. 5
1356-1361

Gradient-based multi-agent meta deep reinforcement learning algorithm

Zhao Chunyu
Lai Jun
Chen Xiliang
Zhang Renwen
College of Command & Control Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210007, China
DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2023.09.0411

Abstract

Multi-agent systems have a wide range of applications in many fields, such as autonomous driving, intelligent logistics, and medical collaboration, etc. However, due to technological advances and increased system requirements, these systems face challenges such as large scale and high complexity, and often suffer from inefficient training and poor adaptability. To address these problems, this paper proposed a multi-agent first-order meta proximal policy optimization(MAMPPO) method by extending gradient-based meta-learning to multi-agent deep reinforcement learning. The method learned the initial model parameters in the multi-agent system to provide a new perspective for improving the performance of multi-agent deep reinforcement learning. It made full use of the previous experience in the process of multi-agent reinforcement learning to find the most sensitive parameters in the direction of gradient descent through repeated adaptation, and learned the initial parameters so that the model training starts from the optimal starting point. This method effectively improved the decision-making efficiency of the joint policy, and led to a significant increase in the speed of its policy change, which significantly accelerated the speed of adaptation in the face of a new situation. Experimental results on StarCraft Ⅱ show that the MAMPPO method can significantly improve the training speed and adaptability, which provides a new solution for the subsequent improvement of the training efficiency and adaptability of multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Foundation Support

国家自然科学基金资助项目(61806221)

Publish Information

DOI: 10.19734/j.issn.1001-3695.2023.09.0411
Publish at: Application Research of Computers Printed Article, Vol. 41, 2024 No. 5
Section: Algorithm Research & Explore
Pages: 1356-1361
Serial Number: 1001-3695(2024)05-011-1356-06

Publish History

[2023-11-21] Accepted Paper
[2024-05-05] Printed Article

Cite This Article

赵春宇, 赖俊, 陈希亮, 等. 一种基于梯度的多智能体元深度强化学习算法 [J]. 计算机应用研究, 2024, 41 (5): 1356-1361. (Zhao Chunyu, Lai Jun, Chen Xiliang, et al. Gradient-based multi-agent meta deep reinforcement learning algorithm [J]. Application Research of Computers, 2024, 41 (5): 1356-1361. )

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