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Multi-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (MADDPG)

This is the code for implementing the MADDPG algorithm presented in the paper: Multi-Agent Actor-Critic for Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Environments. It is configured to be run in conjunction with environments from the Multi-Agent Particle Environments (MPE). Note: this codebase has been restructured since the original paper, and the results may vary from those reported in the paper.

Installation

• To install, cd into the root directory and type pip install -e .

• Known dependencies: Python (3.5.4), OpenAI gym (0.10.5), tensorflow (1.8.0), numpy (1.14.5)

Case study: Multi-Agent Particle Environments

We demonstrate here how the code can be used in conjunction with the Multi-Agent Particle Environments (MPE).

• Download and install the MPE code here by following the README.

• Ensure that multiagent-particle-envs has been added to your PYTHONPATH (e.g. in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile).

• To run the code, cd into the experiments directory and run train.py:

python train.py --scenario simple

• You can replace simple with any environment in the MPE you'd like to run.

Command-line options

Environment options

• --scenario: defines which environment in the MPE is to be used (default: "simple")

• --max-episode-len maximum length of each episode for the environment (default: 25)

• --num-episodes total number of training episodes (default: 60000)

• --num-adversaries: number of adversaries in the environment (default: 0)

• --good-policy: algorithm used for the 'good' (non adversary) policies in the environment (default: "maddpg"; options: {"maddpg", "ddpg"})

• --adv-policy: algorithm used for the adversary policies in the environment (default: "maddpg"; options: {"maddpg", "ddpg"})

Core training parameters

• --lr: learning rate (default: 1e-2)

• --gamma: discount factor (default: 0.95)

• --batch-size: batch size (default: 1024)

• --num-units: number of units in the MLP (default: 64)

Checkpointing

• --exp-name: name of the experiment, used as the file name to save all results (default: None)

• --save-dir: directory where intermediate training results and model will be saved (default: "/tmp/policy/")

• --save-rate: model is saved every time this number of episodes has been completed (default: 1000)

• --load-dir: directory where training state and model are loaded from (default: "")

Evaluation

• --restore: restores previous training state stored in load-dir (or in save-dir if no load-dir has been provided), and continues training (default: False)

• --display: displays to the screen the trained policy stored in load-dir (or in save-dir if no load-dir has been provided), but does not continue training (default: False)

• --benchmark: runs benchmarking evaluations on saved policy, saves results to benchmark-dir folder (default: False)

• --benchmark-iters: number of iterations to run benchmarking for (default: 100000)

• --benchmark-dir: directory where benchmarking data is saved (default: "./benchmark_files/")

• --plots-dir: directory where training curves are saved (default: "./learning_curves/")

Code structure

• ./experiments/train.py: contains code for training MADDPG on the MPE

• ./maddpg/trainer/maddpg.py: core code for the MADDPG algorithm

• ./maddpg/trainer/replay_buffer.py: replay buffer code for MADDPG

• ./maddpg/common/distributions.py: useful distributions used in maddpg.py

• ./maddpg/common/tf_util.py: useful tensorflow functions used in maddpg.py

Paper citation

If you used this code for your experiments or found it helpful, consider citing the following paper:

@article{lowe2017multi,
  title={Multi-Agent Actor-Critic for Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Environments},
  author={Lowe, Ryan and Wu, Yi and Tamar, Aviv and Harb, Jean and Abbeel, Pieter and Mordatch, Igor},
  journal={Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)},
  year={2017}
}