Decentralized Reinforcement Learning

Many associations in the world like the biological ecosystems, government and corporations are physically decentralized however they are unified in the sense of their functionality. For instance, a financial institution operates with a global policy of maximizing their profits, hence appearing as a single entity; however, this entity abstraction is an illusion, as a financial institution is composed of a group of individual human agents solving their optimization problems with our without collaboration. The policy function parameters are fine-tuned depending on the gradients of the defined objective function. This approach is called the monolithic decision-making framework as the policy function's learning parameters are coupled globally solely using an objective function. Having covered a brief background of a centralized reinforcement learning framework, let us move forward to some promising decentralized reinforcement learning frameworks.