With my supervisor, Amanda Prorok, I study resilience and heterogeneity in multi-agent and multi-robot systems. For my research, I employ techniques from the fields of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks.
Prior to my PhD, I investigated the problem of transport network design for multi-agent routing.
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PhD in Computer Science, Present
University of Cambridge
MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, 2021
University of Cambridge
BEng in Computer Engineering, 2020
Politecnico di Milano
In this paper, we introduce System Neural Diversity (SND): a measure of behavioral heterogeneity for multi-agent systems where agents have stochastic policies. We discuss and prove its theoretical properties, and compare it with alternate, state-of-the-art behavioral diversity metrics used in cross-disciplinary domains. Through simulations of a variety of multi-agent tasks, we show how our metric constitutes an important diagnostic tool to analyze latent properties of behavioral heterogeneity.
In this paper, we crystallize the role of heterogeneity in MARL policies. We introduce Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network Proximal Policy Optimization (HetGPPO), a paradigm for training heterogeneous MARL policies that leverages a Graph Neural Network for differentiable inter-agent communication. HetGPPO allows communicating agents to learn heterogeneous behaviors while enabling fully decentralized training in partially observable environments. Through simulations and real-world experiments, we show that: (i) when homogeneous methods fail due to strong heterogeneous requirements, HetGPPO succeeds, and, (ii) when homogeneous methods are able to learn apparently heterogeneous behaviors, HetGPPO achieves higher resilience to both training and deployment noise.
In this paper, we introduce the Vectorized Multi-Agent Simulator (VMAS). VMAS is an open-source framework designed for efficient MARL benchmarking. It comprises a vectorized 2D physics engine written in PyTorch and a set of twelve challenging multi-robot scenarios. Additional scenarios can be implemented through a simple and modular interface. We demonstrate how vectorization enables parallel simulation on accelerated hardware without added complexity.
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