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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dhaval Adjodah, Cambridge, MA (US);
Alex Paul Pentland, Boston, MA (US);
Esteban Moro, Brookline, UA;
Yan Leng, Somerville, MA (US);
Peter Krafft, Oxford, GB;
Daniel Calacci, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Abhimanyu Dubey, Cambridge, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations of this invention, the performance of a network of reinforcement learning agents is maximized by optimizing the communication topology between the agents for the communication of gradients, weights or rewards. For instance, a sparse Erdos-Renyi network may be employed, and network density may be selected in such a way as to maximize reachability and to minimize homogeneity. In some cases, a sparse network topology is employed for massively distributed learning, such as across entire fleets of autonomous vehicles or mobile phones that learn from each other instead of requiring a master to coordinate learning.