Partner Selection for the Emergence of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems Using Reinforcement Learning
Published in Association for the Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019
In this paper, we investigate how partner selection can promote cooperative behavior between agents who are trained to maximize a purely selfish objective function. Our experiments reveal that agents trained with this dynamic learn a strategy that retaliates against defectors while promoting cooperation with other agents resulting in a prosocial society.
Authors: Nicolas Anastassacos, Stephen Hailes, Mirco Musolesi