Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Natasha Jaques, Angeliki Lazaridou, Edward Hughes, Çaglar Gülçehre, Pedro A. Ortega, DJ Strouse, Joel Z. Leibo, Nando de Freitas

Abstract: We propose a unified mechanism for achieving coordination and communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), through rewarding agents for having causal influence over other agents’ act...