Title
Solving Transition-Independent Multi-Agent MDPs with Sparse Interactions.
Abstract
In cooperative multi-agent sequential decision making under uncertainty, agents must coordinate to find an optimal joint policy that maximises joint value. Typical algorithms exploit additive structure in the value function, but in the fully-observable multi-agent MDP (MMDP) setting such structure is not present. We propose a new optimal solver for transition-independent MMDPs, in which agents can only affect their own state but their reward depends on joint transitions. We represent these dependencies compactly in conditional return graphs (CRGs). Using CRGs the value of a joint policy and the bounds on partially specified joint policies can be efficiently computed. We propose CoRe, a novel branch-and-bound policy search algorithm building on CRGs. CoRe typically requires less runtime than available alternatives and finds solutions to previously unsolvable problems.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
THIRTIETH AAAI CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Graph,Mathematical optimization,Search algorithm,Computer science,Markov decision process,Exploit,Bellman equation,Artificial intelligence,Solver,Machine learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.34
References 
Authors
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joris Scharpff1152.67
Diederik M. Roijers219824.72
Frans A. Oliehoek339740.32
Matthijs T.J. Spaan486363.84
Mathijs Weerdt541141.00