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Value-Decomposition Networks for cooperative multi-agent learning

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Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning · Human-designed research method or resource

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What changed

Learns a team action-value as a sum of agent-local utilities from one shared reward, enabling centralized training and decentralized greedy execution.

Scientific scope

Learns a team action-value as a sum of agent-local utilities from one shared reward, enabling centralized training and decentralized greedy execution. Additive factorization restricts the representable joint value functions; the learned utilities are not separately observed per-agent rewards. Reported advantages concern the paper's partially observed cooperative tasks.

Evidence

The linked original sources describe the stated contribution and its evidence limits. WRS has not independently rerun the experiments or certified a proof. Additive factorization restricts the representable joint value functions; the learned utilities are not separately observed per-agent rewards. Reported advantages concern the paper's partially observed cooperative tasks.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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