Managing multiple agents by automatically adjusting incentives

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Main Authors: Akatsuka, Shunichi, Teramoto, Yaemi, Courville, Aaron
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Published: 2024
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author Akatsuka, Shunichi
Teramoto, Yaemi
Courville, Aaron
author_facet Akatsuka, Shunichi
Teramoto, Yaemi
Courville, Aaron
contents In the coming years, AI agents will be used for making more complex decisions, including in situations involving many different groups of people. One big challenge is that AI agent tends to act in its own interest, unlike humans who often think about what will be the best for everyone in the long run. In this paper, we explore a method to get self-interested agents to work towards goals that benefit society as a whole. We propose a method to add a manager agent to mediate agent interactions by assigning incentives to certain actions. We tested our method with a supply-chain management problem and showed that this framework (1) increases the raw reward by 22.2%, (2) increases the agents' reward by 23.8%, and (3) increases the manager's reward by 20.1%.
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spellingShingle Managing multiple agents by automatically adjusting incentives
Akatsuka, Shunichi
Teramoto, Yaemi
Courville, Aaron
Multiagent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science and Game Theory
In the coming years, AI agents will be used for making more complex decisions, including in situations involving many different groups of people. One big challenge is that AI agent tends to act in its own interest, unlike humans who often think about what will be the best for everyone in the long run. In this paper, we explore a method to get self-interested agents to work towards goals that benefit society as a whole. We propose a method to add a manager agent to mediate agent interactions by assigning incentives to certain actions. We tested our method with a supply-chain management problem and showed that this framework (1) increases the raw reward by 22.2%, (2) increases the agents' reward by 23.8%, and (3) increases the manager's reward by 20.1%.
title Managing multiple agents by automatically adjusting incentives
topic Multiagent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science and Game Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02960