Is this a similar concept to compartmentalized consensus? https://mwhittaker.github.io/publications/compartmentalized_...
The compartmentalized consensus does not have relay nodes that do relay/aggregation. The idea in PigPaxos is simply that using randomized relay/aggregators have surprising power for vertically scaling Paxos.
The bipartisan Paxos, seems to apply the compartmentalized consensus idea to EPaxos.