Transfer learning in multi-agent reinforcement learning domains

Authors:
Georgios Boutsioukis;Ioannis Partalas;Ioannis Vlahavas
Affiliations:
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
Venue:
EWRL'11 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Recent Advances in Reinforcement Learning
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In the context of reinforcement learning, transfer learning refers to the concept of reusing knowledge acquired in past tasks to speed up the learning procedure in new tasks. Transfer learning methods have been succesfully applied in single-agent reinforcement learning algorithms, but no prior work has focused on applying them in a multi-agent environment. We propose a novel method for transfer learning in multi-agent reinforcement learning domains. We proceed to test the proposed approach in a multi-agent domain under various configurations. The results demonstrate that the method can reduce the learning time and increase the asymptotic performance of the learning algorithm.