Using adaptive consultation of experts to improve convergence rates in multiagent learning

  • Authors:
  • Greg Hines;Kate Larson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada;University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a regret-based multiagent learning algorithm which is provably guaranteed to converge (during self-play) to the set of Nash equilibrium in a wide class of games. Our algorithm, FRAME, consults experts in order to obtain strategy suggestions for agents. If the experts provide effective advice for the agent, then the learning process will quickly reach a desired outcome. If, however, the experts do not provide good advice, then the agents using our algorithm are still protected. We further expand our algorithm so that agents learn, not only how to play against the other agents in the environment, but also which experts are providing the most effective advice for the situation at hand.