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OM2P: Offline Multi-Agent Mean-Flow Policy

arXiv 2508.06269 ↗First posted 8 Aug 2025cs.LG cs.AIcited by 8

On the map: Offline RL and imitation learning from data → Offline multi-agent RL

Abstract (arXiv)

Generative models, especially diffusion and flow-based models, have been promising in offline multi-agent reinforcement learning. However, integrating powerful generative models into this framework poses unique challenges. In particular, diffusion and flow-based policies suffer from low sampling efficiency due to their iterative generation processes, making them impractical in time-sensitive or resource-constrained settings. To tackle these difficulties, we propose OM2P (Offline Multi-Agent Mean-Flow Policy), a novel offline MARL algorithm to achieve efficient one-step action sampling. To address the misalignment between generative objectives and reward maximization, we introduce a reward-aware optimization scheme that integrates a carefully-designed mean-flow matching loss with Q-function supervision. Additionally, we design a generalized timestep distribution and a derivative-free estimation strategy to reduce memory overhead and improve training stability. Empirical evaluations on Multi-Agent Particle and MuJoCo benchmarks demonstrate that OM2P achieves superior performance, with up to a 3.8x reduction in GPU memory usage and up to a 10.8x speed-up in training time. Our approach represents the first to successfully integrate mean-flow model into offline MARL, paving the way for practical and scalable generative policies in cooperative multi-agent settings.

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Offline multi-agent RL, one of 13 directions in Offline RL and imitation learning from data. Builds on 44 of its 55 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 8 Aug 2025.

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44 of 55 references.

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  7. 2021Plan Better Amid Conservatism: Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Actor Rectification22 Nov
  8. 2021Believe What You See: Implicit Constraint Approach for Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning7 Jun

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  1. 2026Flow Matching for Offline Reinforcement Learning with Discrete Actions
  2. 2026From Suboptimal to Optimal: One-Step Latent Flow Policies for Offline Reinforcement Learning
  3. 2026Diffusing to Coordinate: Efficient Online Multi-Agent Diffusion Policies
  4. 2025Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Sequential Score Decomposition
  5. 2023Improving Generalization and Data Efficiency with Diffusion in Offline Multi-agent RL
  6. 2026Discrete Flow Matching for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
  7. 2023Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Global-to-Local Value Regularization
  8. 2024Offline-to-Online Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Offline Value Function Memory and Sequential Exploration