MAIDCRL: Semi-centralized Multi-Agent Influence Dense-CNN Reinforcement
  Learning
Ayesha Siddika Nipu Siming Liu Anthony Harris
Distributed decision-making in multi-agent systems presents difficult
challenges for interactive behavior learning in both cooperative and
competitive systems. To mitigate this complexity, MAIDRL presents a
semi-centralized Dense Reinforcement Learning algorithm enhanced by agent
influence maps (AIMs), for learning effective multi-agent control on StarCraft
Multi-Agent Challenge (SMAC) scenarios. In this paper, we extend the DenseNet
in MAIDRL and introduce semi-centralized Multi-Agent Dense-CNN Reinforcement
Learning, MAIDCRL, by incorporating convolutional layers into the deep model
architecture, and evaluate the performance on both homogeneous and
heterogeneous scenarios. The results show that the CNN-enabled MAIDCRL
significantly improved the learning performance and achieved a faster learning
rate compared to the existing MAIDRL, especially on more complicated
heterogeneous SMAC scenarios. We further investigate the stability and
robustness of our model. The statistics reflect that our model not only
achieves higher winning rate in all the given scenarios but also boosts the
agent's learning process in fine-grained decision-making.