AIROJul 9, 2025

Application of LLMs to Multi-Robot Path Planning and Task Allocation

arXiv:2507.07302v1
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This addresses exploration challenges in multi-agent systems, which is an incremental improvement over existing expert exploration methods.

The paper tackles the problem of inefficient exploration in multi-agent reinforcement learning by using large-language models as expert planners for multi-robot path planning and task allocation, resulting in improved exploration efficiency.

Efficient exploration is a well known problem in deep reinforcement learning and this problem is exacerbated in multi-agent reinforcement learning due the intrinsic complexities of such algorithms. There are several approaches to efficiently explore an environment to learn to solve tasks by multi-agent operating in that environment, of which, the idea of expert exploration is investigated in this work. More specifically, this work investigates the application of large-language models as expert planners for efficient exploration in planning based tasks for multiple agents.

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