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Conditions coordinated agent utilities on an episode-level latent variable and trains a hierarchical exploration policy with a variational mutual-information objective to distinguish joint behaviors.
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The mutual-information term is a variational lower bound, exact only at the true posterior. Conditional monotonic value mixing and empirical exploration gains do not imply arbitrary-game coverage or global convergence. The first-author star denotes correspondence, not equal contribution.
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Anuj Mahajan; Tabish Rashid; Mikayel Samvelyan; Shimon Whiteson
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MAVEN committed multi-agent variational exploration
Conditions coordinated agent utilities on an episode-level latent variable and trains a hierarchical exploration policy with a variational mutual-information objective to distinguish joint behaviors.
Scientific scope
The mutual-information term is a variational lower bound, exact only at the true posterior. Conditional monotonic value mixing and empirical exploration gains do not imply arbitrary-game coverage or global convergence. The first-author star denotes correspondence, not equal contribution.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Anuj Mahajan; Tabish Rashid; Mikayel Samvelyan; Shimon Whiteson
Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.