arXiv:2508.20898cs.ROcs.LG2025-08中稿 · IROS2025被引 2

提出高效去中心化协作学习方法,降低多机器人通信开销。

CoCoL: A Communication Efficient Decentralized Collaborative Method for Multi-Robot Systems

  • 基于镜面下降框架,用近似牛顿更新捕捉机器人目标函数相似性。
  • 通信轮次和总带宽消耗显著减少,非独立同分布数据下仍保持高精度。
  • 适合数据异构、动态网络等复杂多机器人场景,鲁棒性强。

协同学习提升了多机器人系统在复杂任务中的性能与适应性,但面临通信开销大和数据异质性的挑战。为此,我们提出 CoCoL,一种针对具有异构本地数据集的多机器人系统的通信高效去中心化协同学习方法。该方法基于镜面下降框架,通过捕捉机器人间目标函数的相似性,实现近似牛顿型更新,显著提升通信效率,并通过不精确子问题求解降低计算成本。此外,引入梯度追踪机制,增强了对数据异质性的鲁棒性。在三个代表性多机器人协同学习任务上的实验表明,所提 CoCoL 在显著减少通信轮次和总带宽消耗的同时,保持了最先进的准确率。该优势在非独立同分布(non-IID)数据分布、流式数据及随时间变化的网络拓扑等复杂场景中尤为突出。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Collaborative learning enhances the performance and adaptability of multi-robot systems in complex tasks but faces significant challenges due to high communication overhead and data heterogeneity inherent in multi-robot tasks. To this end, we propose CoCoL, a Communication efficient decentralized Collaborative Learning method tailored for multi-robot systems with heterogeneous local datasets. Leveraging a mirror descent framework, CoCoL achieves remarkable communication efficiency with approximate Newton-type updates by capturing the similarity between objective functions of robots, and reduces computational costs through inexact sub-problem solutions. Furthermore, the integration of a gradient tracking scheme ensures its robustness against data heterogeneity. Experimental results on three representative multi robot collaborative learning tasks show the superiority of the proposed CoCoL in significantly reducing both the number of communication rounds and total bandwidth consumption while maintaining state-of-the-art accuracy. These benefits are particularly evident in challenging scenarios involving non-IID (non-independent and identically distributed) data distribution, streaming data, and time-varying network topologies.

多机器人协同学习通信效率去中心化

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