Dear fellow researchers, DISCOLI’25 just concluded, and it was a very special event to attend for at least one person: Davide Borghi, who presented his very first scientific paper :)
Davide is a research fellow at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council that collaborates with me and Franco Zambonelli on learning communication policies in artificial swarms.
His work – slides are freely available here, proceedings are in press – advances a previous work by me and Franco (here) that investigated whether and how individuals in a swarm can learn communication policies to achieve a goal requiring collective intelligence.
While we proved that such communication policies can be learnt and that the learnt policies are also more efficient than hard-coded ones, Davide further advanced by proving that individuals can learn to exploit the same communication signal for different purposes, even in mixed populations!
This means that the learning process and the convergence policies are robust to the noise generated by heterogeneous agents in the population.
Feel free to contact me for a pre-print, any inquiry, or even better to join us in this research :)
Peace.
