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Poster

Learning Multi-agent Behaviors from Distributed and Streaming Demonstrations

Shicheng Liu · Minghui Zhu

Great Hall & Hall B1+B2 (level 1) #1418

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of inferring the behaviors of multiple interacting experts by estimating their reward functions and constraints where the distributed demonstrated trajectories are sequentially revealed to a group of learners. We formulate the problem as a distributed online bi-level optimization problem where the outer-level problem is to estimate the reward functions and the inner-level problem is to learn the constraints and corresponding policies. We propose a novel multi-agent behavior inference from distributed and streaming demonstrations" (MA-BIRDS) algorithm that allows the learners to solve the outer-level and inner-level problems in a single loop through intermittent communications. We formally guarantee that the distributed learners achieve consensus on reward functions, constraints, and policies, the average local regret (over N online iterations) decreases at the rate of O(1/N1η1+1/N1η2+1/N), and the cumulative constraint violation increases sub-linearly at the rate of O(Nη2+1) where η1,η2(1/2,1).

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