Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Planning Under Uncertainty

Decentralized partially-observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs) are a powerful tool for modeling multi-agent planning and decision-making under uncertainty. Prevalent Dec-POMDP solution techniques require centralized computation given full knowledge of the underlying model. But in real world scenarios, model parameters may not be known a priori, or may be difficult to specify. We propose to address these limitations with distributed reinforcement learning (RL).