학술논문

Scalable Evaluation of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Melting Pot
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
In International Conference on Machine Learning 2021 (pp. 6187-6199). PMLR
Subject
Computer Science - Multiagent Systems
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
Language
Abstract
Existing evaluation suites for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) do not assess generalization to novel situations as their primary objective (unlike supervised-learning benchmarks). Our contribution, Melting Pot, is a MARL evaluation suite that fills this gap, and uses reinforcement learning to reduce the human labor required to create novel test scenarios. This works because one agent's behavior constitutes (part of) another agent's environment. To demonstrate scalability, we have created over 80 unique test scenarios covering a broad range of research topics such as social dilemmas, reciprocity, resource sharing, and task partitioning. We apply these test scenarios to standard MARL training algorithms, and demonstrate how Melting Pot reveals weaknesses not apparent from training performance alone.
Comment: Accepted to ICML 2021 and presented as a long talk; 33 pages; 9 figures