Summary of Mesa: Cooperative Meta-exploration in Multi-agent Learning Through Exploiting State-action Space Structure, by Zhicheng Zhang et al.
MESA: Cooperative Meta-Exploration in Multi-Agent Learning through Exploiting State-Action Space Structure
by Zhicheng Zhang, Yancheng Liang, Yi Wu, Fei Fang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel meta-exploration method for cooperative multi-agent learning, called MESA, is introduced. It learns to explore by identifying high-rewarding joint state-action subspaces from training tasks and then learning diverse exploration policies to “cover” these subspaces. This approach enables integration with off-policy MARL algorithms for test-time tasks. In a matrix game, MESA outperforms existing methods. Further experiments show improved performance in sparse-reward tasks across multi-agent particle environments and MuJoCo environments, with the ability to generalize to more challenging tasks at test time. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MESA is a new way to help many robots work together effectively by finding good paths for exploration. It does this by first looking at what works well in training games and then creating different strategies to try out these good paths. This helps the robots learn faster and make better choices when playing real games. MESA was tested in simple and complex scenarios, and it did a great job of making the robots work together effectively. |
