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Training Pairs of Communicating Machine Learning Agents to Complete Cooperative Tasks Requiring Information Exchange


Alfie Edwards

11/05/2018

Supervised by Richard Booth; Moderated by Frank C Langbein

A machine learning system can optimise a black box to approximate some function. Can this black box be extended further to cover multiple machine learning agents and the way they exchange information? In this project, I explore the idea of connecting multiple machine learning agents using a general communication channel, and training them as if they were a single system. I do this by adapting the machine learning techniques of Q-Learning, NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Toplogies, and Cooperative Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithms to work with the idea of multiple communicating agents.


Initial Plan (05/02/2018) [Zip Archive]

Final Report (11/05/2018) [Zip Archive]

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