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    Area of Science:

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Multiagent Systems

    Background:

    • Learning optimal policies for individual agents in multiagent systems is challenging.
    • The coordination or consistency of agent behaviors is an underexplored area.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel approach for agents to autonomously decide when to align their behaviors with peers.
    • To optimize agent policies using intrinsic rewards for behavior consistency.

    Main Methods:

    • Defined behavior consistency as the divergence in actions given identical observations.
    • Proposed dynamic consistency-based intrinsic reward (DCIR) to guide behavior synchronization.
    • Introduced a dynamic scaling network (DSN) for learnable, time-step-specific reward scaling.

    Main Results:

    • Evaluated the method in diverse environments: Multiagent Particle, Google Research Football, and StarCraft II Micromanagement.
    • Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
    • The DSN enabled agents to dynamically adjust the reward for consistent behavior.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method effectively enables agents to learn optimal policies with dynamic behavior consistency.
    • DCIR and DSN offer a robust framework for coordination in multiagent systems.
    • This research addresses a critical gap in understanding agent behavior alignment.