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MADDPG

36 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Ryan Lowe et al. in Multi-Agent Actor-Critic for Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Environments

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

MADDPG, or Multi-agent DDPG, extends DDPG into a multi-agent policy gradient algorithm where decentralized agents learn a centralized critic based on the observations and actions of all agents. It leads to learned policies that only use local information (i.e. their own observations) at execution time, does not assume a differentiable model of the environment dynamics or any particular structure on the communication method between agents, and is applicable not only to cooperative interaction but to competitive or mixed interaction involving both physical and communicative behavior. The critic is augmented with extra information about the policies of other agents, while the actor only has access to local information. After training is completed, only the local actors are used at execution phase, acting in a decentralized manner.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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reinforcement-learning25
Reinforcement Learning20
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning19
Reinforcement Learning (RL)19
Deep Reinforcement Learning10
Q-Learning8
Edge-computing3
MuJoCo3
Policy Gradient Methods3
Scheduling3
Autonomous Driving2
Decision Making2
Management2
Autonomous Vehicles1
Benchmarking1
Continual Learning1
Continuous Control1
Face Recognition1
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning1
Incremental Learning1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with MADDPG: 2017 to 2025, peak 7 7 0 2017: 1 paper 2017 2018: 3 papers 2018 2019: 2 papers 2019 2020: 6 papers 2020 2021: 6 papers 2021 2022: 7 papers 2022 2023: 7 papers 2023 2024: 3 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
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