Language Grounded Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Human-interpretable Communication

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Huao, Mahjoub, Hossein Nourkhiz, Chalaki, Behdad, Tadiparthi, Vaishnav, Lee, Kwonjoon, Moradi-Pari, Ehsan, Lewis, Charles Michael, Sycara, Katia P
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author Li, Huao
Mahjoub, Hossein Nourkhiz
Chalaki, Behdad
Tadiparthi, Vaishnav
Lee, Kwonjoon
Moradi-Pari, Ehsan
Lewis, Charles Michael
Sycara, Katia P
author_facet Li, Huao
Mahjoub, Hossein Nourkhiz
Chalaki, Behdad
Tadiparthi, Vaishnav
Lee, Kwonjoon
Moradi-Pari, Ehsan
Lewis, Charles Michael
Sycara, Katia P
contents Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods have shown promise in enabling agents to learn a shared communication protocol from scratch and accomplish challenging team tasks. However, the learned language is usually not interpretable to humans or other agents not co-trained together, limiting its applicability in ad-hoc teamwork scenarios. In this work, we propose a novel computational pipeline that aligns the communication space between MARL agents with an embedding space of human natural language by grounding agent communications on synthetic data generated by embodied Large Language Models (LLMs) in interactive teamwork scenarios. Our results demonstrate that introducing language grounding not only maintains task performance but also accelerates the emergence of communication. Furthermore, the learned communication protocols exhibit zero-shot generalization capabilities in ad-hoc teamwork scenarios with unseen teammates and novel task states. This work presents a significant step toward enabling effective communication and collaboration between artificial agents and humans in real-world teamwork settings.
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spellingShingle Language Grounded Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Human-interpretable Communication
Li, Huao
Mahjoub, Hossein Nourkhiz
Chalaki, Behdad
Tadiparthi, Vaishnav
Lee, Kwonjoon
Moradi-Pari, Ehsan
Lewis, Charles Michael
Sycara, Katia P
Multiagent Systems
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods have shown promise in enabling agents to learn a shared communication protocol from scratch and accomplish challenging team tasks. However, the learned language is usually not interpretable to humans or other agents not co-trained together, limiting its applicability in ad-hoc teamwork scenarios. In this work, we propose a novel computational pipeline that aligns the communication space between MARL agents with an embedding space of human natural language by grounding agent communications on synthetic data generated by embodied Large Language Models (LLMs) in interactive teamwork scenarios. Our results demonstrate that introducing language grounding not only maintains task performance but also accelerates the emergence of communication. Furthermore, the learned communication protocols exhibit zero-shot generalization capabilities in ad-hoc teamwork scenarios with unseen teammates and novel task states. This work presents a significant step toward enabling effective communication and collaboration between artificial agents and humans in real-world teamwork settings.
title Language Grounded Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Human-interpretable Communication
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17348