Difference Rewards Policy Gradients
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| author | Castellini, Jacopo Devlin, Sam Oliehoek, Frans A. Savani, Rahul |
| author_facet | Castellini, Jacopo Devlin, Sam Oliehoek, Frans A. Savani, Rahul |
| contents | Policy gradient methods have become one of the most popular classes of algorithms for multi-agent reinforcement learning. A key challenge, however, that is not addressed by many of these methods is multi-agent credit assignment: assessing an agent's contribution to the overall performance, which is crucial for learning good policies. We propose a novel algorithm called Dr.Reinforce that explicitly tackles this by combining difference rewards with policy gradients to allow for learning decentralized policies when the reward function is known. By differencing the reward function directly, Dr.Reinforce avoids difficulties associated with learning the Q-function as done by Counterfactual Multiagent Policy Gradients (COMA), a state-of-the-art difference rewards method. For applications where the reward function is unknown, we show the effectiveness of a version of Dr.Reinforce that learns an additional reward network that is used to estimate the difference rewards. |
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| spellingShingle | Difference Rewards Policy Gradients Castellini, Jacopo Devlin, Sam Oliehoek, Frans A. Savani, Rahul Multiagent Systems Machine Learning I.2.6; I.2.11 Policy gradient methods have become one of the most popular classes of algorithms for multi-agent reinforcement learning. A key challenge, however, that is not addressed by many of these methods is multi-agent credit assignment: assessing an agent's contribution to the overall performance, which is crucial for learning good policies. We propose a novel algorithm called Dr.Reinforce that explicitly tackles this by combining difference rewards with policy gradients to allow for learning decentralized policies when the reward function is known. By differencing the reward function directly, Dr.Reinforce avoids difficulties associated with learning the Q-function as done by Counterfactual Multiagent Policy Gradients (COMA), a state-of-the-art difference rewards method. For applications where the reward function is unknown, we show the effectiveness of a version of Dr.Reinforce that learns an additional reward network that is used to estimate the difference rewards. |
| title | Difference Rewards Policy Gradients |
| topic | Multiagent Systems Machine Learning I.2.6; I.2.11 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11258 |