A Survey of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Communication

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08975v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:39:46 GMT
• Title: A Survey of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Communication
• Authors: Changxi Zhu, Mehdi Dastani, Shihan Wang
• Abstract summary: Communication is an effective mechanism for coordinating the behavior of multiple agents. There is lack of a systematic and structural approach to distinguish and classify existing Comm-MARL systems.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Communication is an effective mechanism for coordinating the behavior of multiple agents. In the field of multi-agent reinforcement learning, agents can improve the overall learning performance and achieve their objectives by communication. Moreover, agents can communicate various types of messages, either to all agents or to specific agent groups, and through specific channels. With the growing body of research work in MARL with communication (Comm-MARL), there is lack of a systematic and structural approach to distinguish and classify existing Comm-MARL systems. In this paper, we survey recent works in the Comm-MARL field and consider various aspects of communication that can play a role in the design and development of multi-agent reinforcement learning systems. With these aspects in mind, we propose several dimensions along which Comm-MARL systems can be analyzed, developed, and compared.

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