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<p><sup>1</sup>Most reinforcement learning benchmarks – especially in multi-agent tasks – do not go beyond observations with simple noise; nonetheless, real scenarios induce more elaborate vision pipeline failures: false sightings, misclassifications or occlusion. In this work, we propose a lightweight, 2D environment for robot soccer and autonomous driving that can emulate the above discrepancies. Besides establishing a benchmark for accessible multi-agent reinforcement learning research, our work addresses the challenges the simulator imposes. For handling realistic noise, we use self-supervised learning to enhance scene reconstruction and extend curiosity-driven learning to model longer horizons. Our extensive experiments show that the proposed methods achieve state-of-the-art performance, compared against actor-critic methods, ICM, and PPO.</p>
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1Most reinforcement learning benchmarks – especially in multi-agent tasks – do not go beyond observations with simple noise; nonetheless, real scenarios induce more elaborate vision pipeline failures: false sightings, misclassifications or occlusion. In this work, we propose a lightweight, 2D environment for robot soccer and autonomous driving that can emulate the above discrepancies. Besides establishing a benchmark for accessible multi-agent reinforcement learning research, our work addresses the challenges the simulator imposes. For handling realistic noise, we use self-supervised learning to enhance scene reconstruction and extend curiosity-driven learning to model longer horizons. Our extensive experiments show that the proposed methods achieve state-of-the-art performance, compared against actor-critic methods, ICM, and PPO.

Handling Realistic Noise in Multi-Agent Systems with Self-Supervised Learning and Curiosity

Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research

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1Most reinforcement learning benchmarks – especially in multi-agent tasks – do not go beyond observations with simple noise; nonetheless, real scenarios induce...

Handling Realistic Noise in Multi-Agent Systems with Self-Supervised Learning and Curiosity

Published Online: Feb 23, 2022

Page range: 135 - 148

Received: Sep 27, 2021

Accepted: Dec 18, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2022-0009

Keywords
deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent environment, autonomous driving, robot soccer, self-supervised learning

© 2022 Márton Szemenyei et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Handling Realistic Noise in Multi-Agent Systems with Self-Supervised Learning and Curiosity

Published Online: Feb 23, 2022

Page range: 135 - 148

Received: Sep 27, 2021

Accepted: Dec 18, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2022-0009

Keywordsdeep reinforcement learning, multi-agent environment, autonomous driving, robot soccer, self-supervised learning

© 2022 Márton Szemenyei et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent environment, autonomous driving, robot soccer, self-supervised learning