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TieComm: Learning a Hierarchical Communication Topology Based on Tie Theory | |
Yang,Ming1; Dong,Renzhi1; Wang,Yiming1; Liu,Furui4; Du,Yali5; Zhou,Mingliang6; U, Leong Hou1,2,3 | |
2023 | |
Conference Name | International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications 2022 |
Source Publication | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
Volume | 13943 LNCS |
Pages | 604-613 |
Conference Date | 2023 April 17-20 |
Conference Place | Tianjin, China |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Abstract | Communication plays an important role in Internet of Things that assists cooperation between devices for better resource management. This work considers the problem of learning cooperative policies using communications in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), which plays an important role to stabilize agent training and improve the policy learned by enabling the agent to capture more information in partially observable environments. Existing studies either adopt a prior topology by experts or learn a communication topology through a costly process. In this work, we optimize the communication mechanism by exploiting both local agent communications and distant agent communications. Our solution is motivated by tie theory in social networks, where strong ties (close friends) communicate differently with weak ties (distant friends). The proposed novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework named TieComm, learns a dynamic communication topology consisting of inter- and intra-group communication for efficient policy learning. We factorize the joint multi-agent policy into a centralized tie reasoning policy and decentralized conditional action policies of agents, based on which we propose an alternative updating schema to achieve efficient optimization. Experimental results on Level-Based Foraging and Blind-particle Spread demonstrate the effectiveness of our tie theory based RL framework. |
Keyword | Communication Topology Cooperation Multi-agent System Reinforcement Learning Social Welfare |
DOI | 10.1007/978-3-031-30637-2_40 |
URL | View the original |
Language | 英語English |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85161704159 |
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Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | Faculty of Science and Technology |
Corresponding Author | U, Leong Hou |
Affiliation | 1.SKL of Internet of Things for Smart City,University of Macau,Zhuhai,China 2.Department of Computer Information Science,University of Macau,Zhuhai,China 3.Centre for Data Science,University of Macau,Zhuhai,China 4.Zhejiang Lab,Hangzhou,China 5.King’s College London,London,United Kingdom 6.College of Computer Science,Chongqing University,Chongqing,China |
First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Corresponding Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Yang,Ming,Dong,Renzhi,Wang,Yiming,et al. TieComm: Learning a Hierarchical Communication Topology Based on Tie Theory[C]:Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023, 604-613. |
APA | Yang,Ming., Dong,Renzhi., Wang,Yiming., Liu,Furui., Du,Yali., Zhou,Mingliang., & U, Leong Hou (2023). TieComm: Learning a Hierarchical Communication Topology Based on Tie Theory. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13943 LNCS, 604-613. |
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