The Hive Mind is a Single Reinforcement Learning Agent

ArXi:2410.17517v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Decision-making is an essential attribute of any intelligent agent or group. Natural systems are known to converge to effective strategies through at least two distinct mechanisms: collective decision-making via imitation of others, and trial-and-error by a single agent. This paper establishes an equivalence between these two paradigms by drawing from the well-studied collective decision-making problem of nest-hunting in swarms of honey bees.