Domain-Aware Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in Navigation

Abstract

Multiagent reinforcement learning has shown success in guiding the agents' behaviour in systems that have realworld significance. In these frameworks, agents learn how to interact with the environment and other agents while satisfying their objectives. Unfortunately, the level of complexity of realworld problems requires a significant investment of computational resources before multiagent reinforcement learning methods are able to deliver results. However, by incorporating a priori domain knowledge, more computationally-efficient algorithms can be developed. In this paper, for the first time, we present a Domain-Aware Multiagent Actor-Critic (DAMAC) algorithm, which integrates domain knowledge with the centralised learning and decentralised execution multiagent reinforcement learning approach using domain-specific solvers. Our experiments show that our algorithm achieves substantial high reward and reduces the training time by two orders of magnitude as compared to other multiagent reinforcement learning algorithms. This enables the adoption of this powerful framework in more resource-constrained scenarios.