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Chennan Ma

4 accepted papers

2025

GradPS: Resolving Futile Neurons in Parameter Sharing Network for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2025poster

Parameter-sharing (PS) techniques have been widely adopted in cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). In PS, all the agents share a policy network with identical parameters, which enjoys good sample efficiency. However, PS could lead to homogeneous policies that limit MARL performance…

2025

PlanU: Large Language Model Reasoning through Planning under Uncertainty

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored across a range of reasoning tasks. However, LLMs sometimes struggle with reasoning tasks under uncertainty that are relatively easy for humans, such as planning actions in stochastic environments. The adoption of LLMs for reasoning is impe…

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2024

The Dormant Neuron Phenomenon in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Value Factorization

NeurIPS 2024poster

In this work, we study the dormant neuron phenomenon in multi-agent reinforcement learning value factorization, where the mixing network suffers from reduced network expressivity caused by an increasing number of inactive neurons. We demonstrate the presence of the dormant neuron phenomenon across m…

2023

RiskQ: Risk-sensitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Value Factorization

NeurIPS 2023poster

Multi-agent systems are characterized by environmental uncertainty, varying policies of agents, and partial observability, which result in significant risks. In the context of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), learning coordinated and decentralized policies that are sensitive to risk is cha…