Stigmergic Independent Reinforcement Learning For Multi-agent Collaboration

Abstract

With the rapid evolution of wireless mobile devices, there emerges an increased need to design effective collaboration mechanisms between intelligent agents, so as to gradually approach the final collective objective through continuously learning from the environment based on their individual observations. In this regard, independent reinforcement learning (IRL) is often deployed in multi-agent collaboration to alleviate the problem of a non-stationary learning environment. However, behavioral strategies of intelligent agents in IRL can only be formulated upon their local individual observations of the global environment, and appropriate communication mechanisms must be introduced to reduce their behavioral localities. In this paper, we address the problem of communication between intelligent agents in IRL by jointly adopting mechanisms with two different scales. For the large scale, we introduce the stigmergy mechanism as an indirect communication bridge between independent learning a

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