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Learning Task-Oriented Channel Allocation for Multi-Agent Communication.
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IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology . Nov2022, Vol. 71 Issue 11, p12016-12029. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Benefiting from the rapid progress of wireless communication and artificial intelligence, multi-agent collaboration opens up new opportunities for various fields. To facilitate multi-agent acting as a group, effective communication plays a crucial role. Recently, many efforts based on multi-agent reinforcement learning have been made to enable effective multi-agent communication under limited bandwidth or noisy channel. However, current methods do not explore wireless resource allocation strategy explicitly. Moreover, due to ignoring task-relevant significance of information, traditional wireless resource allocation schemes may fail to guarantee the transmission efficiency and reliability for multi-agent communication. To this end, in this paper, we propose a task-oriented communication principle for multi-agent communication. We model the task-oriented channel allocation problem as a decentralized partially observable Markov decision process and propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework as a solution. Specifically, we design a novel variational information bottleneck to extract task-relevant information from local observation. Furthermore, a task-oriented channel allocation mechanism is developed to choose the allocation pattern with maximum expected gain. Finally, a double attention mechanism is developed to motivate the efficient utilization of task-relevant information. Experimental results show that our method can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of multi-agent communication, enhancing collaboration performance compared to baselines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189545
- Volume :
- 71
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160652354
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2022.3195202