arXiv Machine Learning By Tasha Pais, Richard Higgins

Feedback Attribution and Representation Geometry: Metrics for Comparing Individual and Shared Rewards in MARL

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arXiv:2607. 16524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent RL systems routinely use team-averaged rewards, a feedback-attribution choice that gives each agent the team outcome regardless of its individual contribution.

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Sep 28

Multi-agent Scaling Across Disjunctive and Compensatory Tasks

The paper introduces Steiner’s taxonomy of group tasks to study how multi‑agent large language model (LLM) teams scale on disjunctive versus compensatory tasks. By modeling agents as conditionally independent given the item, it shows that plurality voting converges to the modal answer while averaging converges to the item‑level bias. Experiments with 13 open‑weight models and up to 30 agents reveal that disjunctive tasks benefit from larger teams, whereas compensatory tasks like Fermi estimation see little improvement, highlighting that task structure and aggregation method fundamentally determine team scaling.

By Carolina Fortuna, Blaz Bertalanic