Multi-Agent Sequential Decision-Making via Communication

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Multi-Agent Sequential Decision-Making via Communication
المؤلفون: Ding, Ziluo, Su, Kefan, Hong, Weixin, Zhu, Liwen, Huang, Tiejun, Lu, Zongqing
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Multiagent Systems, Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: Communication helps agents to obtain information about others so that better coordinated behavior can be learned. Some existing work communicates predicted future trajectory with others, hoping to get clues about what others would do for better coordination. However, circular dependencies sometimes can occur when agents are treated synchronously so it is hard to coordinate decision-making. In this paper, we propose a novel communication scheme, Sequential Communication (SeqComm). SeqComm treats agents asynchronously (the upper-level agents make decisions before the lower-level ones) and has two communication phases. In negotiation phase, agents determine the priority of decision-making by communicating hidden states of observations and comparing the value of intention, which is obtained by modeling the environment dynamics. In launching phase, the upper-level agents take the lead in making decisions and communicate their actions with the lower-level agents. Theoretically, we prove the policies learned by SeqComm are guaranteed to improve monotonically and converge. Empirically, we show that SeqComm outperforms existing methods in various multi-agent cooperative tasks.
Comment: 20 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12713
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2209.12713
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv