Fully Independent Communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15059v2
• Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:44:45 GMT
• Title: Fully Independent Communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Rafael Pina, Varuna De Silva, Corentin Artaud, Xiaolan Liu,
• Abstract summary: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) comprises a broad area of research within the field of multi-agent systems. We investigate how independent learners in MARL that do not share parameters can communicate. Our results show that, despite the challenges, independent agents can still learn communication strategies following our method.
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• Abstract: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) comprises a broad area of research within the field of multi-agent systems. Several recent works have focused specifically on the study of communication approaches in MARL. While multiple communication methods have been proposed, these might still be too complex and not easily transferable to more practical contexts. One of the reasons for that is due to the use of the famous parameter sharing trick. In this paper, we investigate how independent learners in MARL that do not share parameters can communicate. We demonstrate that this setting might incur into some problems, to which we propose a new learning scheme as a solution. Our results show that, despite the challenges, independent agents can still learn communication strategies following our method. Additionally, we use this method to investigate how communication in MARL is affected by different network capacities, both for sharing and not sharing parameters. We observe that communication may not always be needed and that the chosen agent network sizes need to be considered when used together with communication in order to achieve efficient learning.

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