Automatic parameter learning method for agent activation spreading network by evolutionary computation

Abstract

A variety of planning research is being actively conducted in multiple research fields. The focus of these studies is to flexibly utilize both immediate and deliberative planning in response to the environment and to adaptively prioritize multiple goals and actions in a human-like manner. To achieve this, a method that applies active propagation to multi-agent planning (agent activation spreading network) has been proposed and is being utilized in various research fields. Furthermore, with the recent development of large-scale artificial intelligence models, we should soon be able to incorporate tacit human knowledge into this architecture. However, there is not yet a method for adjusting the parameters in this architecture which creates a barrier to future extension. In response, we have developed a method for automatically adjusting the parameters using evolutionary computation. Our experimental results showed that (1) the proposed method enables a higher degree of adaptation, thanks to taking the agent’s semantics into account, and (2) it is possible to obtain parameters that are appropriate to the environment even when the experimental environment is changed.