CCL: Collaborative Curriculum Learning for Sparse-Reward Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Co-evolutionary Task Evolution

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Autores principales: Lin, Yufei, Ye, Chengwei, Zhang, Huanzhen, Wang, Kangsheng, Xu, Linuo, Liu, Shuyan, Zhang, Zeyu
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Publicado: 2025
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author Lin, Yufei
Ye, Chengwei
Zhang, Huanzhen
Wang, Kangsheng
Xu, Linuo
Liu, Shuyan
Zhang, Zeyu
author_facet Lin, Yufei
Ye, Chengwei
Zhang, Huanzhen
Wang, Kangsheng
Xu, Linuo
Liu, Shuyan
Zhang, Zeyu
contents Sparse reward environments pose significant challenges in reinforcement learning, especially within multi-agent systems (MAS) where feedback is delayed and shared across agents, leading to suboptimal learning. We propose Collaborative Multi-dimensional Course Learning (CCL), a novel curriculum learning framework that addresses this by (1) refining intermediate tasks for individual agents, (2) using a variational evolutionary algorithm to generate informative subtasks, and (3) co-evolving agents with their environment to enhance training stability. Experiments on five cooperative tasks in the MPE and Hide-and-Seek environments show that CCL outperforms existing methods in sparse reward settings.
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spellingShingle CCL: Collaborative Curriculum Learning for Sparse-Reward Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Co-evolutionary Task Evolution
Lin, Yufei
Ye, Chengwei
Zhang, Huanzhen
Wang, Kangsheng
Xu, Linuo
Liu, Shuyan
Zhang, Zeyu
Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
Sparse reward environments pose significant challenges in reinforcement learning, especially within multi-agent systems (MAS) where feedback is delayed and shared across agents, leading to suboptimal learning. We propose Collaborative Multi-dimensional Course Learning (CCL), a novel curriculum learning framework that addresses this by (1) refining intermediate tasks for individual agents, (2) using a variational evolutionary algorithm to generate informative subtasks, and (3) co-evolving agents with their environment to enhance training stability. Experiments on five cooperative tasks in the MPE and Hide-and-Seek environments show that CCL outperforms existing methods in sparse reward settings.
title CCL: Collaborative Curriculum Learning for Sparse-Reward Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Co-evolutionary Task Evolution
topic Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07854