Dear Editor, This letter focuses on the collision avoidance for a multi-unmanned surface vehicle (multi-USV) system. A novel multi-USV collision avoidance (MUCA) algorithm is proposed. Firstly, in order to get a more reasonable collision avoidance policy, reward functions are constructed according to international regulations for preventing col-lisions at sea (COLREGS) and USV dynamics. Secondly, to reduce data noises and the impacts of outliers, an improved normalization method is proposed. States and rewards of USVs are normalized to avoid gradient vanishing and exploding. Thirdly, a novel $epsilon$