[PDF][PDF] Learning multiagent communication with backpropagation

S Sukhbaatar, R Fergus - Advances in neural information …, 2016 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Advances in neural information processing systems, 2016proceedings.neurips.cc
Many tasks in AI require the collaboration of multiple agents. Typically, the communication
protocol between agents is manually specified and not altered during training. In this paper
we explore a simple neural model, called CommNet, that uses continuous communication
for fully cooperative tasks. The model consists of multiple agents and the communication
between them is learned alongside their policy. We apply this model to a diverse set of
tasks, demonstrating the ability of the agents to learn to communicate amongst themselves …
Abstract
Many tasks in AI require the collaboration of multiple agents. Typically, the communication protocol between agents is manually specified and not altered during training. In this paper we explore a simple neural model, called CommNet, that uses continuous communication for fully cooperative tasks. The model consists of multiple agents and the communication between them is learned alongside their policy. We apply this model to a diverse set of tasks, demonstrating the ability of the agents to learn to communicate amongst themselves, yielding improved performance over non-communicative agents and baselines. In some cases, it is possible to interpret the language devised by the agents, revealing simple but effective strategies for solving the task at hand.
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