Inter Agent
Inter-agent research focuses on understanding and optimizing the interactions between multiple autonomous agents within a shared environment, aiming to improve cooperation, coordination, and overall system performance. Current research emphasizes developing robust algorithms and models, such as graph neural networks and reinforcement learning frameworks, to handle complex agent relationships, heterogeneous agent capabilities, and unforeseen events like malfunctions. This field is crucial for advancing multi-agent systems in diverse applications, including robotics, traffic management, and resource allocation, by enabling more efficient and adaptable collaborative behaviors. The development of benchmarks and standardized evaluation metrics is also a significant area of focus, facilitating the comparison and improvement of different inter-agent approaches.
Papers
Impact of Relational Networks in Multi-Agent Learning: A Value-Based Factorization View
Yasin Findik, Paul Robinette, Kshitij Jerath, S. Reza Ahmadzadeh
Collaborative Adaptation: Learning to Recover from Unforeseen Malfunctions in Multi-Robot Teams
Yasin Findik, Paul Robinette, Kshitij Jerath, S. Reza Ahmadzadeh