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Junjie Sheng

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arXiv2021

VMAgent: Scheduling Simulator for Reinforcement Learning

A novel simulator called VMAgent is introduced to help RL researchers better explore new methods, especially for virtual machine scheduling. VMAgent is inspired by practical virtual machine (VM) scheduling tasks and provides an efficient simulation platform that can reflect the real situations of cloud computing. Three scenarios (fading, recovering, and expansion) are concluded from practical cloud computing and corresponds to many reinforcement learning challenges (high dimensional state and action spaces, high non-stationarity, and life-long demand). VMAgent provides flexible configurations for RL researchers to design their customized scheduling environments considering different problem features. From the VM scheduling perspective, VMAgent also helps to explore better learning-based scheduling solutions.

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arXiv2021

Structured Diversification Emergence via Reinforced Organization Control and Hierarchical Consensus Learning

When solving a complex task, humans will spontaneously form teams and to complete different parts of the whole task, respectively. Meanwhile, the cooperation between teammates will improve efficiency. However, for current cooperative MARL methods, the cooperation team is constructed through either heuristics or end-to-end blackbox optimization. In order to improve the efficiency of cooperation and exploration, we propose a structured diversification emergence MARL framework named {\sc{Rochico}} based on reinforced organization control and hierarchical consensus learning. {\sc{Rochico}} first learns an adaptive grouping policy through the organization control module, which is established by independent multi-agent reinforcement learning. Further, the hierarchical consensus module based on the hierarchical intentions with consensus constraint is introduced after team formation. Simultaneously, utilizing the hierarchical consensus module and a self-supervised intrinsic reward enhanced decision module, the proposed cooperative MARL algorithm {\sc{Rochico}} can output the final diversified multi-agent cooperative policy. All three modules are organically combined to promote the structured diversification emergence. Comparative experiments on four large-scale cooperation tasks show that {\sc{Rochico}} is significantly better than the current SOTA algorithms in terms of exploration efficiency and cooperation strength.

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arXiv2020

Learning Structured Communication for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

This work explores the large-scale multi-agent communication mechanism under a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) setting. We summarize the general categories of topology for communication structures in MARL literature, which are often manually specified. Then we propose a novel framework termed as Learning Structured Communication (LSC) by using a more flexible and efficient communication topology. Our framework allows for adaptive agent grouping to form different hierarchical formations over episodes, which is generated by an auxiliary task combined with a hierarchical routing protocol. Given each formed topology, a hierarchical graph neural network is learned to enable effective message information generation and propagation among inter- and intra-group communications. In contrast to existing communication mechanisms, our method has an explicit while learnable design for hierarchical communication. Experiments on challenging tasks show the proposed LSC enjoys high communication efficiency, scalability, and global cooperation capability.

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