Multi-agent Cooperation in Diverse Population Games

We consider multi-agent systems whose agents compete for resources by striving to be in the minority group. The agents adapt to the environment by reinforcement learning of the preferences of the policies they hold. Diversity of preferences of policies is introduced by adding random biases to the initial cumulative payoffs of their policies. We explain and provide evidence that agent cooperation becomes increasingly important when diversity increases. Analyses of these mechanisms yield excellent agreement with simulations over nine decades of data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: NIPS
• Authors: K. Y. Michael Wong, S. W. Lim, Zhuo Gao
• Keywords: Initial Cumulative Payoffs, NIPS 2004, NIPS 2007, Policies, Preferences