Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Global-to-Local Value Regularization

Xiangsen Wang, Haoran Xu, Yinan Zheng, Xianyuan Zhan

Keywords: Offline reinforcement learning; multi-agent reinforcement learning; multi-agent cooperation

TL;DR: A principled offline MARL approach that converts global-level regularization into equivalent implicit local-level regularizations with SOTA empirical results.

Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) has received considerable attention in recent years due to its attractive capability of learning policies from offline datasets without environmental interactions. Despite some success in the single-agent setting, offline multi-agent RL (MARL) remains to be a challenge. The large joint state-action space and the coupled multi-agent behaviors pose extra complexities for offline policy optimization. Most existing offline MARL studies simply apply offline data-related regularizations on individual agents, without fully considering the multi-agent system at the global level. In this work, we present OMIGA, a new offline multi-agent RL algorithm with implicit global-to-local value regularization. OMIGA provides a principled framework to convert global-level value regularization into equivalent implicit local value regularizations and simultaneously enables in-sample learning, thus elegantly bridging multi-agent value decomposition and policy learning with offline regularizations. Based on comprehensive experiments on the offline multi-agent MuJoCo and StarCraft II micro-management tasks, we show that OMIGA achieves superior performance over the state-of-the-art offline MARL methods in almost all tasks.

Submission Number: 5814