Subspace-focused search method for optimal coalition structure generation

R Taguelmimt, S Aknine, D Boukredera… - 2022 IEEE 34th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2022 IEEE 34th International Conference on Tools with Artificial …, 2022ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coalition structure generation, ie, the problem of optimally partitioning a set of agents into
disjoint exhaustive coalitions to maximize social welfare, is a fundamental computational
problem in multi-agent systems. In this paper, we provide a new algorithm for optimal
coalition structure generation. We analyze how parts of the solution space can be searched
individually with guarantees of fully searching them. We introduce a new algorithm that
searches the entire solution space using dynamic programming with a branch-and-bound …
Coalition structure generation, i.e., the problem of optimally partitioning a set of agents into disjoint exhaustive coalitions to maximize social welfare, is a fundamental computational problem in multi-agent systems. In this paper, we provide a new algorithm for optimal coalition structure generation. We analyze how parts of the solution space can be searched individually with guarantees of fully searching them. We introduce a new algorithm that searches the entire solution space using dynamic programming with a branch-and-bound technique both focused on solution subspaces. With experiments over several common value distributions, we show that dividing the search process enables our algorithm to rapidly search the solution subspaces and outperform current state-of-the-art for several value distributions.
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