BGC: Multi-Agent Group Belief with Graph Clustering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08808v4
• Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 09:21:33 GMT
• Title: BGC: Multi-Agent Group Belief with Graph Clustering
• Authors: Tianze Zhou, Fubiao Zhang, Pan Tang, Chenfei Wang
• Abstract summary: We propose a semi-communication method to enable agents can exchange information without communication. Inspired by the neighborhood cognitive consistency, we propose a group-based module to divide adjacent agents into a small group and minimize in-group agents' beliefs. Results reveal that the proposed method achieves a significant improvement in the SMAC benchmark.
• Score: 1.9949730506194252
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances have witnessed that value decomposed-based multi-agent reinforcement learning methods make an efficient performance in coordination tasks. Most current methods assume that agents can make communication to assist decisions, which is impractical in some situations. In this paper, we propose a semi-communication method to enable agents can exchange information without communication. Specifically, we introduce a group concept to help agents learning a belief which is a type of consensus. With this consensus, adjacent agents tend to accomplish similar sub-tasks to achieve cooperation. We design a novel agent structure named Belief in Graph Clustering(BGC), composed of an agent characteristic module, a belief module, and a fusion module. To represent each agent characteristic, we use an MLP-based characteristic module to generate agent unique features. Inspired by the neighborhood cognitive consistency, we propose a group-based module to divide adjacent agents into a small group and minimize in-group agents' beliefs to accomplish similar sub-tasks. Finally, we use a hyper-network to merge these features and produce agent actions. To overcome the agent consistent problem brought by GAT, a split loss is introduced to distinguish different agents. Results reveal that the proposed method achieves a significant improvement in the SMAC benchmark. Because of the group concept, our approach maintains excellent performance with an increase in the number of agents.

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