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A Survey of Progress on Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Open Environment

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arxiv 2312.01058 v1 pith:R6LICOI7 submitted 2023-12-02 cs.MA

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Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has gained wide attention in recent years and has made progress in various fields. Specifically, cooperative MARL focuses on training a team of agents to cooperatively achieve tasks that are difficult for a single agent to handle. It has shown great potential in applications such as path planning, autonomous driving, active voltage control, and dynamic algorithm configuration. One of the research focuses in the field of cooperative MARL is how to improve the coordination efficiency of the system, while research work has mainly been conducted in simple, static, and closed environment settings. To promote the application of artificial intelligence in real-world, some research has begun to explore multi-agent coordination in open environments. These works have made progress in exploring and researching the environments where important factors might change. However, the mainstream work still lacks a comprehensive review of the research direction. In this paper, starting from the concept of reinforcement learning, we subsequently introduce multi-agent systems (MAS), cooperative MARL, typical methods, and test environments. Then, we summarize the research work of cooperative MARL from closed to open environments, extract multiple research directions, and introduce typical works. Finally, we summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the current research, and look forward to the future development direction and research problems in cooperative MARL in open environments.

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