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Autori principali: Godfrey, Toby, Hunt, William, Soorati, Mohammad D.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14383
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author Godfrey, Toby
Hunt, William
Soorati, Mohammad D.
author_facet Godfrey, Toby
Hunt, William
Soorati, Mohammad D.
contents Multi-agent reinforcement learning is a key method for training multi-robot systems. Through rewarding or punishing robots over a series of episodes according to their performance, they can be trained and then deployed in the real world. However, poorly trained policies can lead to unsafe behaviour during early training stages. We introduce Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning guided by language-based Inter-robot Negotiation (MARLIN), a hybrid framework in which large language models provide high-level planning before the reinforcement learning policy has learned effective behaviours. Robots use language models to negotiate actions and generate plans that guide policy learning. The system dynamically switches between reinforcement learning and language-model-based negotiation during training, enabling safer and more effective exploration. MARLIN is evaluated using both simulated and physical robots with local and remote language models. Results show that, compared to standard multi-agent reinforcement learning, the hybrid approach achieves higher performance in early training without reducing final performance. The code is available at https://github.com/SooratiLab/MARLIN.
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spellingShingle MARLIN: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Guided by Language-Based Inter-Robot Negotiation
Godfrey, Toby
Hunt, William
Soorati, Mohammad D.
Robotics
Multi-agent reinforcement learning is a key method for training multi-robot systems. Through rewarding or punishing robots over a series of episodes according to their performance, they can be trained and then deployed in the real world. However, poorly trained policies can lead to unsafe behaviour during early training stages. We introduce Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning guided by language-based Inter-robot Negotiation (MARLIN), a hybrid framework in which large language models provide high-level planning before the reinforcement learning policy has learned effective behaviours. Robots use language models to negotiate actions and generate plans that guide policy learning. The system dynamically switches between reinforcement learning and language-model-based negotiation during training, enabling safer and more effective exploration. MARLIN is evaluated using both simulated and physical robots with local and remote language models. Results show that, compared to standard multi-agent reinforcement learning, the hybrid approach achieves higher performance in early training without reducing final performance. The code is available at https://github.com/SooratiLab/MARLIN.
title MARLIN: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Guided by Language-Based Inter-Robot Negotiation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14383