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Maintaining System State Information in a Multiagent Environment for Effective Learning
Gang CHEN
Zhonghua YANG
Hao HE
Kiah-Mok GOH
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E88-D No.1 pp.127-134
Publication Date: 2005/01/01
Online ISSN:
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Distributed Cooperation and Agents
Keyword:
multiagent system,
system state,
distributed protocol,
token ring,
Full Text: PDF(536.4KB)
Summary:
One fundamental issue in multiagent reinforcement learning is how to deal with the limited local knowledge of an agent in order to achieve effective learning. In this paper, we argue that this issue can be more effectively solved if agents are equipped with a consistent global view. We achieve this by requiring agents to follow an interacting protocol. The properties of the protocol are derived and theoretically analyzed. A distributed protocol that satisfies these properties is presented. The experimental evaluations are conducted for a well-known test-case (i.e., pursuit game) in the context of two learning algorithms. The results show that the protocol is effective and the reinforcement learning algorithms using it perform much better.
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