Re: is communication a requirement to collaborate?

> >  > Is collaboration possible without communication?
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> The large mass of multi-agent (reinforcement) learning is about learning
> some task with multiple agents, without communicating at all.
> Many systems work by 'shared rewards', so that agents will learn to do
> their actions in the benefit of the whole system. More sophisticated 
> approaches use for example 'wonderful life utility' in which the 
> difference between system+agent1 and system-without-agent1 for example.
> 

Thanks Martijn. 

The notion of collaboration among agents is somewhat integrated by the
designer of such learning system. There may be no explicit and direct
communication during run time, but a model of collaborative utility is
captured when designing the system and before reinforcement learning
takes place , isn't it?

cheers, Christian

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