arXiv:2502.09889cs.MAcs.AI2025-02被引 1

提升多智能体协作中图解释方法的可读性,让团队通信关键路径更清晰。

Evaluating and Improving Graph-based Explanation Methods for Multi-Agent Coordination

  • 引入注意力熵正则化,让GAT策略聚焦少数关键智能体
  • 在三个任务、三种团队规模下解释质量显著提升
  • 不牺牲任务性能,适合需要可解释性的多智能体系统

图神经网络(GNN)在多机器人与多智能体学习中表现优异。受此启发,我们评估并分析了现有GNN解释方法在解释多智能体协作中的适用性。发现这些方法能有效识别影响团队行为的关键通信通道。基于初步分析,提出一种注意力熵正则化项,使基于GAT的策略更适配现有图解释方法。直观上,最小化注意力熵促使智能体仅关注最具影响力的个体,降低解释难度。理论证明,该正则化增强了解释子图与其补集之间的差异性。在三个任务和三种团队规模下的评估表明:(i) 现有解释器的有效性得到揭示;(ii) 所提正则化方法持续提升解释质量,且不损害任务性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), developed by the graph learning community, have been adopted and shown to be highly effective in multi-robot and multi-agent learning. Inspired by this successful cross-pollination, we investigate and characterize the suitability of existing GNN explanation methods for explaining multi-agent coordination. We find that these methods have the potential to identify the most-influential communication channels that impact the team's behavior. Informed by our initial analyses, we propose an attention entropy regularization term that renders GAT-based policies more amenable to existing graph-based explainers. Intuitively, minimizing attention entropy incentivizes agents to limit their attention to the most influential or impactful agents, thereby easing the challenge faced by the explainer. We theoretically ground this intuition by showing that minimizing attention entropy increases the disparity between the explainer-generated subgraph and its complement. Evaluations across three tasks and three team sizes i) provides insights into the effectiveness of existing explainers, and ii) demonstrates that our proposed regularization consistently improves explanation quality without sacrificing task performance.

多智能体图神经网络可解释性注意力机制

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