POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Navigation
<|reference_start|>POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Navigation: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently excelled in solving challenging cooperative and competitive multi-agent problems in various environments with, mostly, few agents and full observability. Moreover, a range of crucial robotics-related tasks, such as multi-robot navigation and obstacle avoidance, that have been conventionally approached with the classical non-learnable methods (e.g., heuristic search) is currently suggested to be solved by the learning-based or hybrid methods. Still, in this domain, it is hard, not to say impossible, to conduct a fair comparison between classical, learning-based, and hybrid approaches due to the lack of a unified framework that supports both learning and evaluation. To this end, we introduce POGEMA, a set of comprehensive tools that includes a fast environment for learning, a generator of problem instances, the collection of pre-defined ones, a visualization toolkit, and a benchmarking tool that allows automated evaluation. We introduce and specify an evaluation protocol defining a range of domain-related metrics computed on the basics of the primary evaluation indicators (such as success rate and path length), allowing a fair multi-fold comparison. The results of such a comparison, which involves a variety of state-of-the-art MARL, search-based, and hybrid methods, are presented.<|reference_end|>
@article{skrynnik2024pogema:,
    title={POGEMA: A Benchmark Platform for Cooperative Multi-Agent Navigation},
    author={Alexey Skrynnik, Anton Andreychuk, Anatolii Borzilov, Alexander
  Chernyavskiy, Konstantin Yakovlev, Aleksandr Panov},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14931},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.14931},
    primaryClass={cs.LG cs.AI cs.MA}
}