MARL-DPP provides a Python-based framework for training multiple reinforcement learning agents that leverage Determinantal Point Processes (DPP) to ensure policy diversity. By integrating DPP in reward shaping or action selection, it promotes varied exploration and emergent cooperative behaviors. The repository includes environment integration scripts, training pipelines, evaluation tools, and examples in common multi-agent benchmarks, enabling researchers and practitioners to experiment with diversified MARL techniques easily.
MARL-DPP provides a Python-based framework for training multiple reinforcement learning agents that leverage Determinantal Point Processes (DPP) to ensure policy diversity. By integrating DPP in reward shaping or action selection, it promotes varied exploration and emergent cooperative behaviors. The repository includes environment integration scripts, training pipelines, evaluation tools, and examples in common multi-agent benchmarks, enabling researchers and practitioners to experiment with diversified MARL techniques easily.
MARL-DPP is an open-source framework enabling multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with enforced diversity through Determinantal Point Processes (DPP). Traditional MARL approaches often suffer from policy convergence to similar behaviors; MARL-DPP addresses this by incorporating DPP-based measures to encourage agents to maintain diverse action distributions. The toolkit provides modular code for embedding DPP in training objectives, sampling policies, and managing exploration. It includes ready-to-use integration with standard OpenAI Gym environments and the Multi-Agent Particle Environment (MPE), along with utilities for hyperparameter management, logging, and visualization of diversity metrics. Researchers can evaluate the impact of diversity constraints on cooperative tasks, resource allocation, and competitive games. The extensible design supports custom environments and advanced algorithms, facilitating exploration of novel MARL-DPP variants.
Who will use MARL-DPP?
Reinforcement Learning Researchers
Multi-Agent Systems Engineers
Machine Learning Students
AI Practitioners interested in diversity-enhanced RL
How to use the MARL-DPP?
Step1: Clone the MARL-DPP repository from GitHub.
Step2: Install dependencies via pip using requirements.txt.
Step3: Configure the environment and choose a benchmark (Gym or MPE).
Step4: Run training scripts with diversity hyperparameters.
Step5: Evaluate performance and visualize diversity metrics.