Incentivising Cooperation by Judging a Group's Performance by its Weakest Member in Neuroevolution and Reinforcement Learning
Description:
This project explores how cooperation among autonomous agents can be incentivized by rewarding group performance based on the weakest member. We compare various reward schemes (MEAN, MAXIMUM, MINIMUM) in both neuroevolution (via genetic algorithms) and reinforcement learning contexts. Results demonstrate that the MINIMUM reward scheme promotes both high performance and equitable behavior, flattening the despotic index.
The uploaded ZIP file contains all source code, data, figures, and generated results necessary to reproduce the experiments and analyses presented in the paper.
The implementation of the evolutionary framework, MABE (Modular Agent-Based Evolver), can be found on GitHub at:
https://github.com/Hintzelab/MABE