arXiv:2508.18708cs.MAcs.AI2025-08被引 3

医疗协作中,公平分配任务需兼顾能力匹配与工作量均衡。

Skill-Aligned Fairness in Multi-Agent Learning for Collaboration in Healthcare

  • 提出双目标公平框架,同时优化任务分配的技能匹配与工作量均衡。
  • 实验表明仅平衡工作量会导致能力错配,影响协作效率。
  • 构建可定制医疗模拟环境,支持研究技能与资源约束下的公平性。

多智能体强化学习中的公平性常被视作工作量均衡问题,忽视了智能体专长及真实场景所需的结构化协作。在医疗领域,公平的任务分配需兼顾工作量均衡与技能匹配,以避免过度劳累和高技能者资源耗竭。本文提出FairSkillMARL框架,将公平定义为工作量均衡与技能-任务对齐的双重目标;并构建MARLHospital模拟环境,用于建模团队构成与能量约束对公平性的影响。通过对比四种标准MARL方法及两种先进公平度量,结果表明:仅追求工作量均等可能导致任务与技能错配,凸显了更鲁棒度量的必要性。本研究为异质多智能体系统中技能与努力匹配关键场景提供了工具与基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fairness in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is often framed as a workload balance problem, overlooking agent expertise and the structured coordination required in real-world domains. In healthcare, equitable task allocation requires workload balance or expertise alignment to prevent burnout and overuse of highly skilled agents. Workload balance refers to distributing an approximately equal number of subtasks or equalised effort across healthcare workers, regardless of their expertise. We make two contributions to address this problem. First, we propose FairSkillMARL, a framework that defines fairness as the dual objective of workload balance and skill-task alignment. Second, we introduce MARLHospital, a customizable healthcare-inspired environment for modeling team compositions and energy-constrained scheduling impacts on fairness, as no existing simulators are well-suited for this problem. We conducted experiments to compare FairSkillMARL in conjunction with four standard MARL methods, and against two state-of-the-art fairness metrics. Our results suggest that fairness based solely on equal workload might lead to task-skill mismatches and highlight the need for more robust metrics that capture skill-task misalignment. Our work provides tools and a foundation for studying fairness in heterogeneous multi-agent systems where aligning effort with expertise is critical.

多智能体医疗协作公平性强化学习

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