Autotelic Reinforcement Learning In Multi-agent Environments

Abstract

In the intrinsically motivated skills acquisition problem, the agent is set in an environment without any pre-defined goals and needs to acquire an open-ended repertoire of skills. To do so the agent needs to be autotelic (deriving from the Greek auto (self) and telos (end goal)): it needs to generate goals and learn to achieve them following its own intrinsic motivation rather than external supervision. Autotelic agents have so far been considered in isolation. But many applications of open-ended learning entail groups of agents. Multi-agent environments pose an additional challenge for autotelic agents: to discover and master goals that require cooperation agents must pursue them simultaneously, but they have low chances of doing so if they sample them independently. In this work, we propose a new learning paradigm for modeling such settings, the Decentralized Intrinsically Motivated Skills Acquisition Problem (Dec-IMSAP), and employ it to solve cooperative navigation tasks. First, w

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