Can deep Q-networks etc. brute force their way through tough coordination problems…? Perhaps not. Jacopo’s work, accepted as an extended abstract at AAMAS’19, takes a first step in exploring this in the one-shot setting.
Not so surprising: “joint Q-learner” can be too large/slow and “individual Q-learners” can fail to find good representations.
But good to know: “factored Q-value functions” which represent the Q-function as a random mixture of components involving 2 or 3 agents, can do quite well, even for hard coordination tasks!
