Survey of Recent Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Utilizing Centralized Training

Sharma, Piyush K., Fernandez, Rolando, Zaroukian, Erin, Dorothy, Michael, Basak, Anjon, Asher, Derrik E.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

Much work has been dedicated to the exploration of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) paradigms implementing a centralized learning with decentralized execution (CLDE) approach to achieve human-like collaboration in cooperative tasks. Here, we discuss variations of centralized training and describe a recent survey of algorithmic approaches. The goal is to explore how different implementations of information sharing mechanism in centralized learning may give rise to distinct group coordinated behaviors in multi-agent systems performing cooperative tasks.