Paper ID: 2305.17141

Research on Multi-Agent Communication and Collaborative Decision-Making Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Zeng Da

In a multi-agent environment, In order to overcome and alleviate the non-stationarity of the multi-agent environment, the mainstream method is to adopt the framework of Centralized Training Decentralized Execution (CTDE). This thesis is based on the framework of CTDE, and studies the cooperative decision-making of multi-agent based on the Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO) algorithm for multi-agent proximal policy optimization. In order to alleviate the non-stationarity of the multi-agent environment, a multi-agent communication mechanism based on weight scheduling and attention module is introduced. Different agents can alleviate the non-stationarity caused by local observations through information exchange between agents, assisting in the collaborative decision-making of agents. The specific method is to introduce a communication module in the policy network part. The communication module is composed of a weight generator, a weight scheduler, a message encoder, a message pool and an attention module. Among them, the weight generator and weight scheduler will generate weights as the selection basis for communication, the message encoder is used to compress and encode communication information, the message pool is used to store communication messages, and the attention module realizes the interactive processing of the agent's own information and communication information. This thesis proposes a Multi-Agent Communication and Global Information Optimization Proximal Policy Optimization(MCGOPPO)algorithm, and conducted experiments in the SMAC and the MPE. The experimental results show that the improvement has achieved certain effects, which can better alleviate the non-stationarity of the multi-agent environment, and improve the collaborative decision-making ability among the agents.

Submitted: May 23, 2023