Safe and Generalizable Hierarchical Multi-Agent RL via Constraint Manifold Control
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This paper introduces a hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that enforces hard safety constraints while enabling effective coordination.
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This paper introduces a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework that enforces hard safety constraints while enabling effective coordination. It achieves competitive performance with nearly perfect safety rates and theoretical guarantees, making it suitable for safety-critical applications.
Key Points
- Enforces hard safety constraints using a constraint manifold at low levels.
- Achieves competitive performance with nearly perfect safety rates.
- Provides theoretical safety guarantees in multi-agent settings.
- Enables stable and efficient training with stationary learning dynamics.
- Generalizes effectively to varying numbers of agents and obstacles.
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Article Excerpt
From source RSS / original summaryarXiv:2606. 24010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: are widely used in safety-critical applications that require coordinated behavior under strict safety constraints. Existing approaches face a fundamental trade-off: learning-based methods achieve strong empirical performance but lack theoretical safety guarantees, while control-theoretic methods enforce safety but often lead to overly conservative and inefficient behaviors.
We propose a hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that enforces hard safety constraints under mild assumptions at low level via a constraint manifold, while enabling effective coordination through high-level policy learning. Our approach provides theoretical safety guarantees in the multi-agent setting and yields stationary learning dynamics, thereby enabling stable and efficient training.
Empirically, our method achieves competitive performance while maintaining nearly perfect safety rates, and generalizes effectively to varying numbers of agents and obstacles.
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