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Performance prediction of hub-based swarms.

Puneet Jain¹, Chaitanya Dwivedi², Nicholas Smith¹

¹Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences

|January 29, 2025

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This study introduces a new method for understanding hub-based swarm behavior, like ant colonies. The technique uses graph neural networks to create low-dimensional representations of swarm states, enabling performance prediction and classification.

Keywords:

graph neural network performance prediction swarms

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Swarm Intelligence
Robotics

Background:

Existing swarm modeling tools excel with spatially structured swarms (e.g., bird flocks).
Formalisms for modeling hub-based colonies (e.g., foraging, nesting) are less developed.
Hub-based colonies exhibit complex collective behaviors crucial for tasks like resource management and site selection.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop low-dimensional representations of swarm state for simulated homogeneous hub-based colonies.
To enable classification of swarm states based on performance metrics like success probability and completion time.
To provide a scalable method for analyzing complex swarm dynamics.

Main Methods:

Utilized convolution-based graph neural network architectures to generate latent representations (embeddings) of swarm states.
Developed embeddings where similar swarm performance corresponds to similar representational states.
Applied these embeddings to classify swarm states into success probability and time-to-completion bins.

Main Results:

Successfully generated low-dimensional embeddings that capture essential swarm state information.
Demonstrated that embeddings correlate with swarm performance, allowing for state classification.
Showcased a method for obtaining embeddings with progressively less information, indicating scalability.

Conclusions:

The proposed method offers a powerful tool for analyzing and predicting the performance of hub-based swarms.
These low-dimensional embeddings facilitate a deeper understanding of complex swarm dynamics.
The approach shows promise for extension to larger, more complex swarm systems and environments.