用基因相似度设计奖励机制,让智能体自然产生复杂合作行为。
Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
- 以遗传相似性为基础设计奖励函数,模拟生物中的亲缘选择。
- 在囚徒困境网络中验证了汉密尔顿法则,合作随基因相似度提升而增强。
- 适合研究非团队合作、动态社会关系的多智能体系统,如演化博弈。
自然选择的竞争与合作力量推动了数百万年的智力演化,造就了丰富的生物多样性与人类心智的复杂性。受此启发,我们提出一种新型多智能体强化学习框架:每个智能体拥有基因型,奖励函数基于亲缘适应度(inclusive fitness)设计。智能体的基因可与其他智能体共享,其奖励函数自然考虑这一因素。我们在两类包含囚徒困境的网络博弈中研究由此产生的社会动态,结果符合生物学中已知规律,如汉密尔顿法则。此外,我们指出该框架可扩展至具有时空结构、有限资源和演化种群的开放环境。我们假设将出现策略的军备竞赛,新策略逐步优化旧策略,形成类似生物演化的多智能体自适应课程。与早期研究中二元团队结构不同,本框架基于基因的奖励结构,使合作程度从完全对抗到完全协作形成连续谱,实现非团队式社会动态。例如,一个智能体可与两个其他智能体互惠合作,而这两者之间仍保持对抗。我们认为,在智能体中引入亲缘适应度,为更高级战略与社会智能的涌现提供了基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The competitive and cooperative forces of natural selection have driven the evolution of intelligence for millions of years, culminating in nature's vast biodiversity and the complexity of human minds. Inspired by this process, we propose a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework where each agent is assigned a genotype and where reward functions are modelled after the concept of inclusive fitness. An agent's genetic material may be shared with other agents, and our inclusive reward function naturally accounts for this. We study the resulting social dynamics in two types of network games with prisoner's dilemmas and find that our results align with well-established principles from biology, such as Hamilton's rule. Furthermore, we outline how this framework can extend to more open-ended environments with spatial and temporal structure, finite resources, and evolving populations. We hypothesize the emergence of an arms race of strategies, where each new strategy is a gradual improvement over earlier adaptations of other agents, effectively producing a multi-agent autocurriculum analogous to biological evolution. In contrast to the binary team-based structures prevalent in earlier research, our gene-based reward structure introduces a spectrum of cooperation ranging from full adversity to full cooperativeness based on genetic similarity, enabling unique non team-based social dynamics. For example, one agent having a mutual cooperative relationship with two other agents, while the two other agents behave adversarially towards each other. We argue that incorporating inclusive fitness in agents provides a foundation for the emergence of more strategically advanced and socially intelligent agents.
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