Treffer: MALib: A Parallel Framework for Population-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning.

Population-based multi-agent reinforcement learning (PB-MARL) encompasses a range of methods that merge dynamic population selection with multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms (MARL). While PB-MARL has demonstrated notable achievements in complex multi-agent tasks, its sequential execution is plagued by low computational efficiency due to the diversity in computing patterns and policy combinations. We propose a solution involving a stateless central task dispatcher and stateful workers to handle PB-MARL's subroutines, thereby capitalizing on parallelism across various components for efficient problem-solving. In line with this approach, we introduce MALib, a parallel framework that incorporates a task control model, independent data servers, and an abstraction of MARL training paradigms. The framework has undergone extensive testing and is available under the MIT license (https://github.com/sjtu-marl/malib). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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