Learning Intra-group Cooperation in Multi-agent Systems
Weiwei Liu, Shanqi Liu, Jian Yang, Yong Liu · 2021 27th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP) · 2021
Reinforcement learning is one of the algorithms used in multi-agent systems to promote agent cooperation. However, most current multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms improve the communication capabilities of agents for cooperation, but the overall communication is costly and even harmful due to bandwidth limitations. In addition, de-centralized execution cannot generate joint actions, which is not conducive to cooperation. Therefore, we proposed the Hierarchical Group Cooperation Network (HGCN). Advanced strategy, Group Network (GroNet), learns to group all agents based on their state rather than their location. The Low-level strategy, Group Cooperation Network (GCoNet), is a method of centralized training and centralized execution within a group, which effectively promotes agent collaboration. Finally, we validated our method in various experiments.