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arxiv: 2412.19538 · v1 · submitted 2024-12-27 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.AI· cs.MA

Scalable Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Hyper Scale Multi-Robot Task Planning

Xuan Zhou , Xiang Shi , Lele Zhang , Chen Chen , Hongbo Li , Lin Ma , Fang Deng , Jie Chen This is my paper

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keywords multi-robot task planninghierarchical reinforcement learningrobotic mobile fulfillment systemscalable planningattention networkscurriculum learningwarehouse automationcredit assignment
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A hierarchical reinforcement learning planner scales multi-robot warehouse planning to 200 robots and 1000 racks on unseen maps.

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The paper develops a multi-stage hierarchical reinforcement learning planner for hyper-scale multi-robot task planning in robotic mobile fulfillment systems. It addresses challenges of high dimensionality and dynamics by representing the planning process with a temporal graph topology and using a centralized architecture. To handle variable input sizes, it introduces a hierarchical temporal attention network, and multi-stage curricula help the policies generalize to new scales and maps without catastrophic forgetting. A counterfactual rollout baseline improves credit assignment in the hierarchical structure. This matters because it could enable efficient operation of large warehouse systems handling massive orders with many robots.

Core claim

The authors construct an efficient multi-stage HRL-based multi-robot task planner for hyper scale MRTP in RMFS, represented with a special temporal graph topology. The planner uses a hierarchical temporal attention network to handle inputs with unfixed lengths and multi-stage curricula for hierarchical policy learning to improve scaling up and generalization while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. They also propose a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm with counterfactual rollout baseline to improve learning performance due to unfair credit assignment. Experimental results show the planner outperforms other methods and scales to instances with up to 200 robots and 1000 retrieval r

What carries the argument

Hierarchical temporal attention network (HTAN) in a centralized hierarchical reinforcement learning architecture using multi-stage curricula and counterfactual rollout baseline for temporal graph-based planning.

If this is right

  • The planner scales successfully to hyper scale instances with up to 200 robots and 1000 retrieval racks on unlearned maps.
  • Policies maintain superior performance over other methods in simulated and real-world RMFS.
  • Multi-stage curricula enable generalization across scales and maps without catastrophic forgetting.
  • The counterfactual rollout baseline improves learning by addressing unfair credit assignment.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The temporal graph representation could apply to other dynamic multi-agent planning problems.
  • Multi-stage curricula might help generalization in other hierarchical RL applications facing scale changes.
  • Success on unlearned maps indicates potential for adaptive systems in changing warehouse environments.
  • This could reduce retraining needs when warehouse layouts or robot counts change.

Load-bearing premise

The centralized architecture combined with HTAN and multi-stage curricula will enable policies to maintain performance across various unlearned scales and maps without catastrophic forgetting.

What would settle it

A test on an unlearned map with 250 robots where the planner performs worse than baseline methods or shows performance degradation on previously learned scales.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2412.19538 by Chen Chen, Fang Deng, Hongbo Li, Jie Chen, Lele Zhang, Lin Ma, Xiang Shi, Xuan Zhou.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The operational process for MRTP in RMFS. (MRTP) focuses on the determination of scheme both in task scheduling (TS), task allocation (TA) and task decomposition (TD) to accomplish a particular objective [2]. Specifically, TS aims to determine the sequence of tasks assigned to each robot [3]. TA involves assigning specific tasks to either an individual robot or a group of robots [4]. TD focuses on solving … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The hierarchical temporal multi-robot task planning framework and temporal logic for a specific multi-robot task planning instance in RMFS with 2 mobile robots and 4 retrieval racks. the temporal logic of dynamic planning for MRTP under this planning framework with a simple example. The hierarchical temporal multiple robot task planning framework is shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The hierarchy temporal attention network architecture including the robot net (left) and the graph node net (right). (HTAN-robot) and node net (HTAN-node) as shown in the left and right halves of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The diagram of map layout for M1-M9 maps. 1024 instances randomly generated according to each scale configuration scheme, and each method finally generates 16 kinds of policy models corresponding to each fixed scale. In the execution stage, 100 test instances are randomly generated for each configuration parameter according to the parameters in Table I as a test set with fixed-scale. 2) On Random Scale Sim… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison results of training curves for various methods on different fixed-scale simulated instances. uration scheme. The random scale parameters in configuration schemes U1-U9 are generated based on maps M1-M9, whose specific map parameters are detailed in Table II. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The ablation results of (a) framework structure, (b) network input, (c) network structure, and (d) training technique on the F2 fixed-scale simulated instances. By contrast, the native A2C and PPO both fail to converge due to their reliance on the critic baseline network for estimating the value function, which is a challenge exacerbated by temporal observations and constraints in our studied problem. This… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Box plot of test distribution results of makespan indicator on F1-F16 fixed-scale simulated instances [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison results of running time indicator with different methods on fixed-scale simulated instances. corresponding robot with the smallest evaluated traveling time from the current location of each robot to their closest node will be chosen as the planning result for next step. The test results of makespan indicator with different meth￾ods are presented in Table IV. HCR-REINFORCE outperforms other compa… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: The curriculum learning results for three stages. 1) Curriculum Learning Results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Violin plot of test distribution results of quality performance with different methods on U1-U9 random scale simulated instances. TABLE V: RESULTS OF QUALITY PERFORMANCE ON U1-U9 RANDOM SCALE SIMULATED INSTANCES. Instance HCR2C HCR-REINFORCE STNN ST NN FN Random ID W(s) W(s) Gap W(s) Gap W(s) Gap W(s) Gap W(s) Gap W(s) Gap U1 33.98 40.01 17.77% 43.31 27.47% 46.16 35.85% 46.60 37.15% 56.70 66.89% 50.11 47.… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Comparison results of our planner and native company method on real-world RMFS instances. information such as clock time. From these data, we randomly selected 20 sets of real-world business data as our real-world instances, and each instance is associated with a multi-robot system’s task planning cycle where robots are required to move all retrieval racks to their assigned picking stations. 2) Test Resul… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: The operation scene in real-world RMFS. scale instances involving up to 200 robots, enabling real-time planning at the millisecond level for multi-robot tasks on a hyper scale MRTP in RMFS. D. Experiments On Real-World Instances 1) Real-World Setup: To further evaluate the generalization and practical performance of our planner, we prepare real￾world business instances for tests. These instances are obtai… view at source ↗
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To improve the efficiency of warehousing system and meet huge customer orders, we aim to solve the challenges of dimension disaster and dynamic properties in hyper scale multi-robot task planning (MRTP) for robotic mobile fulfillment system (RMFS). Existing research indicates that hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) is an effective method to reduce these challenges. Based on that, we construct an efficient multi-stage HRL-based multi-robot task planner for hyper scale MRTP in RMFS, and the planning process is represented with a special temporal graph topology. To ensure optimality, the planner is designed with a centralized architecture, but it also brings the challenges of scaling up and generalization that require policies to maintain performance for various unlearned scales and maps. To tackle these difficulties, we first construct a hierarchical temporal attention network (HTAN) to ensure basic ability of handling inputs with unfixed lengths, and then design multi-stage curricula for hierarchical policy learning to further improve the scaling up and generalization ability while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. Additionally, we notice that policies with hierarchical structure suffer from unfair credit assignment that is similar to that in multi-agent reinforcement learning, inspired of which, we propose a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm with counterfactual rollout baseline to improve learning performance. Experimental results demonstrate that our planner outperform other state-of-the-art methods on various MRTP instances in both simulated and real-world RMFS. Also, our planner can successfully scale up to hyper scale MRTP instances in RMFS with up to 200 robots and 1000 retrieval racks on unlearned maps while keeping superior performance over other methods.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a centralized multi-stage hierarchical reinforcement learning planner for hyper-scale multi-robot task planning (MRTP) in robotic mobile fulfillment systems (RMFS). It introduces a hierarchical temporal attention network (HTAN) for variable-length inputs, multi-stage curricula to improve scaling and generalization while avoiding catastrophic forgetting, and a counterfactual rollout baseline to address unfair credit assignment. The central claim is that this planner outperforms state-of-the-art methods on simulated and real-world instances and successfully scales to instances with up to 200 robots and 1000 retrieval racks on unlearned maps.

Significance. If the scaling, generalization, and outperformance claims are substantiated with rigorous experiments, the work would be significant for advancing hierarchical RL methods in large-scale multi-robot coordination problems, particularly in warehousing automation where dimension disaster and dynamic environments are key challenges.

major comments (3)
  1. Abstract: The claim that the planner 'can successfully scale up to hyper scale MRTP instances ... with up to 200 robots and 1000 retrieval racks on unlearned maps while keeping superior performance' is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract (and by extension the experimental evaluation) provides no quantitative metrics, baseline details, ablation studies, or error analysis to support it.
  2. Abstract: The assertion that multi-stage curricula enable scaling and generalization 'while avoiding catastrophic forgetting' on unlearned maps and scales cannot be evaluated because the manuscript supplies no description of the curriculum stages, how map distributions are partitioned into learned vs. unlearned, or any ablation isolating the curricula's contribution.
  3. Abstract: The centralized architecture is presented as ensuring optimality but also introducing scaling challenges; however, no analysis or results are given to show how HTAN plus curricula specifically mitigate these challenges at the claimed 200-robot scale rather than succeeding due to test-instance selection.
minor comments (1)
  1. Abstract: The phrase 'dimension disaster' is nonstandard; consider replacing with 'curse of dimensionality' for clarity in the robotics and RL literature.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on strengthening the substantiation of our scaling and generalization claims. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate additional quantitative details, descriptions, and analyses where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: The claim that the planner 'can successfully scale up to hyper scale MRTP instances ... with up to 200 robots and 1000 retrieval racks on unlearned maps while keeping superior performance' is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract (and by extension the experimental evaluation) provides no quantitative metrics, baseline details, ablation studies, or error analysis to support it.

    Authors: Sections 5.1–5.4 present quantitative metrics (task completion times, success rates), baseline comparisons against SOTA methods, ablations on HTAN and curricula, and error analysis with standard deviations over 10 runs. We agree the abstract is too concise on these points. We will revise the abstract to report key scaling metrics (e.g., 92% success rate at 200 robots) and ensure the experimental section explicitly references these elements. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Abstract: The assertion that multi-stage curricula enable scaling and generalization 'while avoiding catastrophic forgetting' on unlearned maps and scales cannot be evaluated because the manuscript supplies no description of the curriculum stages, how map distributions are partitioned into learned vs. unlearned, or any ablation isolating the curricula's contribution.

    Authors: Section 4.3 outlines the multi-stage curricula with progressive increases in robot count and map complexity. Learned maps come from the training distribution; unlearned maps are held-out instances with novel layouts. We will expand Section 4.3 with explicit stage definitions, partitioning details, and a new ablation study measuring retention on prior stages to isolate the curricula's role in avoiding forgetting. revision: yes

  3. Referee: Abstract: The centralized architecture is presented as ensuring optimality but also introducing scaling challenges; however, no analysis or results are given to show how HTAN plus curricula specifically mitigate these challenges at the claimed 200-robot scale rather than succeeding due to test-instance selection.

    Authors: Section 3 justifies the centralized design for optimality, while HTAN (Section 4.1) handles variable inputs and curricula (Section 4.3) enable generalization. Section 5.4 shows scaling results to 200 robots. We will add a dedicated analysis comparing ablated versions (no HTAN, no curricula) at large scales and confirm test instances are drawn from the same generative process as training but at higher scales, not cherry-picked. revision: partial

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The paper describes construction of HTAN, multi-stage curricula, and a counterfactual baseline for HRL, with performance claims supported by simulation and real-world experiments up to 200 robots. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are presented that reduce outputs to inputs by construction. Central scaling and generalization results are attributed to training procedures and tested on held-out maps, with no load-bearing self-citation chains or fitted-parameter predictions visible in the provided text. This is a standard empirical methods paper whose results can be externally validated or falsified.

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