Specializing Inter-Agent Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning using Agent Class Information

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07617v2
• Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:19:56 GMT
• Title: Specializing Inter-Agent Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning using Agent Class Information
• Authors: Douglas De Rizzo Meneghetti, Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi
• Abstract summary: This work proposes the representation of multi-agent communication capabilities as a directed labeled heterogeneous agent graph. We also introduce a neural network architecture that specializes communication in fully cooperative heterogeneous multi-agent tasks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Inspired by recent advances in agent communication with graph neural networks, this work proposes the representation of multi-agent communication capabilities as a directed labeled heterogeneous agent graph, in which node labels denote agent classes and edge labels, the communication type between two classes of agents. We also introduce a neural network architecture that specializes communication in fully cooperative heterogeneous multi-agent tasks by learning individual transformations to the exchanged messages between each pair of agent classes. By also employing encoding and action selection modules with parameter sharing for environments with heterogeneous agents, we demonstrate comparable or superior performance in environments where a larger number of agent classes operates.

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