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Improving Multi-agent Coordination by Learning to Estimate Contention

Danassis, Panayiotis  
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Wiedemair, Florian
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Faltings, Boi  
August 25, 2021
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2021

We present a multi-agent learning algorithm, ALMA-Learning, for efficient and fair allocations in large-scale systems. We circumvent the traditional pitfalls of multi-agent learning (e.g., the moving target problem, the curse of dimensionality, or the need for mutually consistent actions) by relying on the ALMA heuristic as a coordination mechanism for each stage game. ALMA-Learning is decentralized, observes only own action/reward pairs, requires no inter-agent communication, and achieves near-optimal (<5% loss) and fair coordination in a variety of synthetic scenarios and a real-world meeting scheduling problem. The lightweight nature and fast learning constitute ALMA-Learning ideal for on-device deployment.

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DOI
10.24963/ijcai.2021/18
Author(s)
Danassis, Panayiotis  
Wiedemair, Florian
Faltings, Boi  
Date Issued

2021-08-25

Published in
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISBN of the book

978-0-999241-19-6

Total of pages

7

Note

Main Track. Pages 125-131

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https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/18
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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2021

Montreal, Canada

August 19-27, 2021

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/300100?ln=en
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February 9, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/194699
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