Anchored hypergraphs provide stable credit assignment for multi-agent teams

HySTAR separates adaptive representation learning from a fixed decomposition scaffold, achieving gains on challenging benchmarks.

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Xinglong Luo · Yuding Zhang · Yuheng Kuang · Shuxuan Yuan · Zhenni Zeng · Weiqiang Zhu · +2 more

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Independent Researcher

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The authors introduce HySTAR, a MAPPO-based framework that uses an anchored overlapping sparse hypergraph as a temporally consistent value-decomposition basis, while adapting representations via a spatiotemporal encoder.

HySTAR extends the MAPPO algorithm by separating the credit-assignment topology from the content of agent interactions.

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From University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Independent Researcher · Part of Credit Assignment in Agentic RL, now 20 papers

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HySTAR anchors a hypergraph to stabilize credit assignment in cooperative multi-agent RL, improving performance across benchmarks.

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