Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Yan, Huiwen, Liu, Mushuang
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
Soggetti:
Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22867
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866912723649953792
author Yan, Huiwen
Liu, Mushuang
author_facet Yan, Huiwen
Liu, Mushuang
contents Markov games (MGs) provide a mathematical foundation for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), enabling self-interested agents to learn their optimal policies while interacting with others in a shared environment. However, due to the complexities of an MG problem, seeking (Markov perfect) Nash equilibrium (NE) is often very challenging for a general-sum MG. Markov potential games (MPGs), which are a special class of MGs, have appealing properties such as guaranteed existence of pure NEs and guaranteed convergence of gradient play algorithms, thereby leading to desirable properties for many MARL algorithms in their NE-seeking processes. However, the question of how to construct MPGs has remained open. This paper provides sufficient conditions on the reward design and on the Markov decision process (MDP), under which an MG is an MPG. Numerical results on autonomous driving applications are reported.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2503_22867
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Markov Potential Game Construction and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Autonomous Driving
Yan, Huiwen
Liu, Mushuang
Systems and Control
Markov games (MGs) provide a mathematical foundation for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), enabling self-interested agents to learn their optimal policies while interacting with others in a shared environment. However, due to the complexities of an MG problem, seeking (Markov perfect) Nash equilibrium (NE) is often very challenging for a general-sum MG. Markov potential games (MPGs), which are a special class of MGs, have appealing properties such as guaranteed existence of pure NEs and guaranteed convergence of gradient play algorithms, thereby leading to desirable properties for many MARL algorithms in their NE-seeking processes. However, the question of how to construct MPGs has remained open. This paper provides sufficient conditions on the reward design and on the Markov decision process (MDP), under which an MG is an MPG. Numerical results on autonomous driving applications are reported.
title Markov Potential Game Construction and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Autonomous Driving
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22867