Collective learning

Collective learning is a distributed machine learning approach where multiple AI agents, models, or systems collaborate to acquire knowledge and improve performance through shared experiences and data insights. This paradigm enables individual AI systems to benefit from the collective intelligence of the group, accelerating learning processes and improving overall system capabilities. Collective learning encompasses federated learning, where models train on decentralized data while preserving privacy, and multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents learn optimal strategies through interaction. The approach allows AI systems to leverage diverse datasets, computational resources, and specialized knowledge from different sources without centralizing sensitive information. Collective learning enhances model robustness, reduces training time, and enables continuous improvement through collaborative knowledge sharing. This methodology is particularly valuable in scenarios where data privacy is critical, computational resources are distributed, or when combining expertise from multiple domains to solve complex problems that exceed individual system capabilities.