arXiv:2505. 08630v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training cooperative agents in sparse-reward scenarios poses significant challenges for multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL).
By Shuai Han, Mehdi Dastani, Shihan Wang
arXiv:2602. 08335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with external tools via multi-agent systems offers a promising new paradigm for decomposing and solving complex problems.
By Yanming Li, Xuelin Zhang, WenJie Lu, Ziye Tang, Maodong Wu, Haotian Luo, Tongtong Wu, Zijie Peng, Hongze Mi, Yibo Feng, Naiqiang Tan, Chao Huang, Lian Peng, Li Shen
arXiv:2603. 21563v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collaborative multi-agent large language models (LLMs) can solve complex reasoning tasks by decomposing roles, but reinforcement learning for such systems is limited by credit assignment: shared terminal rewards obscure individual contributions and can encourage free-riding.
By Zhongyi Li, Wan Tian, Yikun Ban, Jinju Chen, Huiming Zhang, Yang Liu, Fuzhen Zhuang
Credit assignment is a fundamental challenge in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, particularly in embodied AI settings characterized by limited and delayed feedback as well as dynamically changing numbers of active agents. We propose MARS-RA, a framework that reformulates credit assignment as a rank aggregation problem using contribution-based pairwise comparisons among agents generated by large multimodal models.
arXiv:2605. 26684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning (RL) methods have achieved remarkable success in improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) and have been rapidly extended to agentic tasks.
By Xin Cheng, Shuo He, Lang Feng, HaiYang Xu, Ming Yan, Lei Feng, Bo An
arXiv:2608. 08604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a powerful framework for solving complex collaborative tasks, but it relies heavily on well-defined global reward functions.
By Ni Mu, Yao Luan, Yiqin Yang, Qing-Shan Jia
arXiv:2511. 10687v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) in multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown promise for complex tasks, yet current training methods lack principled ways to connect system-level evaluation with agent- and message-level learning.
By Chih-Hsuan (Bella), Yang, Tanwi Mallick, Le Chen, Krishnan Raghavan, Amal Gueroudji, Ian T. Foster, Rajeev Thakur
arXiv:2606. 28217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a framework for reward allocation in fully delegated AI cooperatives where humans are represented by agents that contribute data and participate in model updates under heterogeneous value constraints.
By Young Yoon, Jimin Kim, Soyeon Park
arXiv:2606. 30072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative tasks in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) require agents to collectively maximize a shared return.
By Daiki E. Matsunaga, Junho Na, Tri Wahyu Guntara, Scott Sanner, Pascal Poupart, Jongmin Lee, Kee-Eung Kim
arXiv:2507. 23604v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods allow for learning scalable multi-agent policies, but suffer from partial observability and induced non-stationarity.
By Tommaso Marzi, Cesare Alippi, Andrea Cini
arXiv:2607. 17924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent policy optimization, exemplified by PPO-based methods, is a key branch of cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL).
By Zijian Zhao, Sen Li
arXiv:2606. 02859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How can a population of agents self-orchestrate and self-adapt into stronger collective intelligence without centralized control?
By Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su, Ao Qu, Chenyu Wang, Yu Yao, Han Zheng, Kushal Chattopadhyay, Guowei Xu, Zihan Wang, Weirui Ye, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Ju Li, Paul Pu Liang, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Sham Kakade, Yilun Du