Multi-Agent Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NeurIPS 2018)

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Authors

Jiaming Song, Hongyu Ren, Dorsa Sadigh, Stefano Ermon

Abstract

Imitation learning algorithms can be used to learn a policy from expert demonstrations without access to a reward signal. However, most existing approaches are not applicable in multi-agent settings due to the existence of multiple (Nash) equilibria and non-stationary environments. We propose a new framework for multi-agent imitation learning for general Markov games, where we build upon a generalized notion of inverse reinforcement learning. We further introduce a practical multi-agent actor-critic algorithm with good empirical performance. Our method can be used to imitate complex behaviors in high-dimensional environments with multiple cooperative or competing agents.