DCMAC: Demand-aware Customized Multi-Agent Communication via Upper Bound Training

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Hauptverfasser: Huo, Dongkun, Zhang, Huateng, Hao, Yixue, Ye, Yuanlin, Hu, Long, Wang, Rui, Chen, Min
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author Huo, Dongkun
Zhang, Huateng
Hao, Yixue
Ye, Yuanlin
Hu, Long
Wang, Rui
Chen, Min
author_facet Huo, Dongkun
Zhang, Huateng
Hao, Yixue
Ye, Yuanlin
Hu, Long
Wang, Rui
Chen, Min
contents Efficient communication can enhance the overall performance of collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning. A common approach is to share observations through full communication, leading to significant communication overhead. Existing work attempts to perceive the global state by conducting teammate model based on local information. However, they ignore that the uncertainty generated by prediction may lead to difficult training. To address this problem, we propose a Demand-aware Customized Multi-Agent Communication (DCMAC) protocol, which use an upper bound training to obtain the ideal policy. By utilizing the demand parsing module, agent can interpret the gain of sending local message on teammate, and generate customized messages via compute the correlation between demands and local observation using cross-attention mechanism. Moreover, our method can adapt to the communication resources of agents and accelerate the training progress by appropriating the ideal policy which is trained with joint observation. Experimental results reveal that DCMAC significantly outperforms the baseline algorithms in both unconstrained and communication constrained scenarios.
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spellingShingle DCMAC: Demand-aware Customized Multi-Agent Communication via Upper Bound Training
Huo, Dongkun
Zhang, Huateng
Hao, Yixue
Ye, Yuanlin
Hu, Long
Wang, Rui
Chen, Min
Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
Efficient communication can enhance the overall performance of collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning. A common approach is to share observations through full communication, leading to significant communication overhead. Existing work attempts to perceive the global state by conducting teammate model based on local information. However, they ignore that the uncertainty generated by prediction may lead to difficult training. To address this problem, we propose a Demand-aware Customized Multi-Agent Communication (DCMAC) protocol, which use an upper bound training to obtain the ideal policy. By utilizing the demand parsing module, agent can interpret the gain of sending local message on teammate, and generate customized messages via compute the correlation between demands and local observation using cross-attention mechanism. Moreover, our method can adapt to the communication resources of agents and accelerate the training progress by appropriating the ideal policy which is trained with joint observation. Experimental results reveal that DCMAC significantly outperforms the baseline algorithms in both unconstrained and communication constrained scenarios.
title DCMAC: Demand-aware Customized Multi-Agent Communication via Upper Bound Training
topic Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07127