Evaluating and Improving Graph-based Explanation Methods for Multi-Agent Coordination

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09889v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 03:25:45 GMT
• Title: Evaluating and Improving Graph-based Explanation Methods for Multi-Agent Coordination
• Authors: Siva Kailas, Shalin Jain, Harish Ravichandar,
• Abstract summary: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been adopted and shown to be highly effective in multi-robot and multi-agent learning. We investigate and characterize the suitability of existing GNN explanation methods for explaining multi-agent coordination. We propose an attention entropy regularization term that renders GAT-based policies more amenable to existing graph-based explainers.
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• Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), developed by the graph learning community, have been adopted and shown to be highly effective in multi-robot and multi-agent learning. Inspired by this successful cross-pollination, we investigate and characterize the suitability of existing GNN explanation methods for explaining multi-agent coordination. We find that these methods have the potential to identify the most-influential communication channels that impact the team's behavior. Informed by our initial analyses, we propose an attention entropy regularization term that renders GAT-based policies more amenable to existing graph-based explainers. Intuitively, minimizing attention entropy incentivizes agents to limit their attention to the most influential or impactful agents, thereby easing the challenge faced by the explainer. We theoretically ground this intuition by showing that minimizing attention entropy increases the disparity between the explainer-generated subgraph and its complement. Evaluations across three tasks and three team sizes i) provides insights into the effectiveness of existing explainers, and ii) demonstrates that our proposed regularization consistently improves explanation quality without sacrificing task performance.

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