arXiv AI By Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Guoxin Wang, Beiwen Zhang, Zhiquan Chen, Guojie Wang, Hejun Wu

MA-WAM: Multi-Agent World-Action Model for Test-Time Planning

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The paper introduces MA-WAM, a test‑time planning framework that uses a frozen multi‑agent flow policy to evaluate future joint actions by predicting their consequences while accounting for cross‑agent dependencies. Unlike naive extensions of single‑agent world models, MA‑WAM captures the interactions among simultaneous actions, enabling efficient candidate scoring. Experiments on 30 MARL benchmarks (MAMuJoCo, SMAC, MPE) show MA‑WAM improves performance by 22.0% over direct execution and 25.6% over uniform action selection, with only a 12.1 ms overhead on an A100 GPU.

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