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New G2MAF framework refines multi-agent policies at test-time

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Researchers have introduced Gradient Guided Multi Agent Flow (G2MAF), a novel framework designed to refine multi-agent reinforcement learning policies at test-time. This method addresses the issue of frozen policies making suboptimal joint action proposals by applying a globally normalized, projected critic gradient. G2MAF guides agents to make corrections while ensuring actions remain feasible and close to the original proposal. In evaluations across 24 Multi-Agent Particle Environment (MPE) and SMAC settings, G2MAF improved 20 frozen policies, achieving average relative gains of 9.2% on MPE and 8.9% on SMAC with only a 6% increase in inference latency. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Guoxin Wang, Zhiquan Chen, Beiwen Zhang, Guojie Wang, Hejun Wu ·

    G2MAF: Test-Time Gradient Guidance for Multi-Agent Flow Policies

    arXiv:2609.31286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) learns cooperative policies from fixed datasets without further environment interaction and a learned policy is frozen at deployment. Such a frozen policy typically proposes a single…

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