Surrogate Difference Evaluations with Limited Peer to Peer Communications

Steven King (University of Nevada, Reno), Scott Forer (University of Nevada, Reno), Adarsh Kesireddy (University of Nevada, Reno), Logan Yliniemi (University of Nevada, Reno)

Abstract

In this work, we introduce Surrogate Difference Evaluations-an agent-specific credit assignment structure in the vein of Difference Evaluations which only uses local information, and peer-to-peer communicated information. Surrogate Difference Evaluations allow agents to attain 95% performance while operating with 0.04% as much communicable volume.