Multi-agent assignment via state augmented reinforcement learning
<|reference_start|>Multi-agent assignment via state augmented reinforcement learning: We address the conflicting requirements of a multi-agent assignment problem through constrained reinforcement learning, emphasizing the inadequacy of standard regularization techniques for this purpose. Instead, we recur to a state augmentation approach in which the oscillation of dual variables is exploited by agents to alternate between tasks. In addition, we coordinate the actions of the multiple agents acting on their local states through these multipliers, which are gossiped through a communication network, eliminating the need to access other agent states. By these means, we propose a distributed multi-agent assignment protocol with theoretical feasibility guarantees that we corroborate in a monitoring numerical experiment.<|reference_end|>
@article{agorio2024multi-agent,
    title={Multi-agent assignment via state augmented reinforcement learning},
    author={Leopoldo Agorio, Sean Van Alen, Miguel Calvo-Fullana, Santiago
  Paternain, Juan Andres Bazerque},
    journal={Proceedings of Machine Learning Research vol 242 1 12, 2024. 6th
  Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.01782},
    primaryClass={eess.SY cs.AI cs.LG cs.MA cs.SY}
}