Robust Event-Triggered Integrated Communication and Control with Graph Information Bottleneck Optimization

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Ziqiong, Yu, Xiaoxue, Li, Rongpeng, Zhao, Zhifeng
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author Wang, Ziqiong
Yu, Xiaoxue
Li, Rongpeng
Zhao, Zhifeng
author_facet Wang, Ziqiong
Yu, Xiaoxue
Li, Rongpeng
Zhao, Zhifeng
contents Integrated communication and control serves as a critical ingredient in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. However, partial observability limitations will impair collaboration effectiveness, and a potential solution is to establish consensus through well-calibrated latent variables obtained from neighboring agents. Nevertheless, the rigid transmission of less informative content can still result in redundant information exchanges. Therefore, we propose a Consensus-Driven Event-Based Graph Information Bottleneck (CDE-GIB) method, which integrates the communication graph and information flow through a GIB regularizer to extract more concise message representations while avoiding the high computational complexity of inner-loop operations. To further minimize the communication volume required for establishing consensus during interactions, we also develop a variable-threshold event-triggering mechanism. By simultaneously considering historical data and current observations, this mechanism capably evaluates the importance of information to determine whether an event should be triggered. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of both efficiency and adaptability.
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spellingShingle Robust Event-Triggered Integrated Communication and Control with Graph Information Bottleneck Optimization
Wang, Ziqiong
Yu, Xiaoxue
Li, Rongpeng
Zhao, Zhifeng
Multiagent Systems
Integrated communication and control serves as a critical ingredient in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. However, partial observability limitations will impair collaboration effectiveness, and a potential solution is to establish consensus through well-calibrated latent variables obtained from neighboring agents. Nevertheless, the rigid transmission of less informative content can still result in redundant information exchanges. Therefore, we propose a Consensus-Driven Event-Based Graph Information Bottleneck (CDE-GIB) method, which integrates the communication graph and information flow through a GIB regularizer to extract more concise message representations while avoiding the high computational complexity of inner-loop operations. To further minimize the communication volume required for establishing consensus during interactions, we also develop a variable-threshold event-triggering mechanism. By simultaneously considering historical data and current observations, this mechanism capably evaluates the importance of information to determine whether an event should be triggered. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of both efficiency and adaptability.
title Robust Event-Triggered Integrated Communication and Control with Graph Information Bottleneck Optimization
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09846