Scalable Communication for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Transformer-Based Email Mechanism

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01919v2
• Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:13:41 GMT
• Title: Scalable Communication for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Transformer-Based Email Mechanism
• Authors: Xudong Guo, Daming Shi, Wenhui Fan
• Abstract summary: Communication can impressively improve cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) We propose a novel framework Transformer-based Email Mechanism (TEM) to tackle the scalability problem of MARL communication for partially-observed tasks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Communication can impressively improve cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), especially for partially-observed tasks. However, existing works either broadcast the messages leading to information redundancy, or learn targeted communication by modeling all the other agents as targets, which is not scalable when the number of agents varies. In this work, to tackle the scalability problem of MARL communication for partially-observed tasks, we propose a novel framework Transformer-based Email Mechanism (TEM). The agents adopt local communication to send messages only to the ones that can be observed without modeling all the agents. Inspired by human cooperation with email forwarding, we design message chains to forward information to cooperate with the agents outside the observation range. We introduce Transformer to encode and decode the message chain to choose the next receiver selectively. Empirically, TEM outperforms the baselines on multiple cooperative MARL benchmarks. When the number of agents varies, TEM maintains superior performance without further training.

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