A Survey of Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning: Federated Learning and Cooperative and Noncooperative Decentralized Regimes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06278v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:47:40 GMT
• Title: A Survey of Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning: Federated Learning and Cooperative and Noncooperative Decentralized Regimes
• Abstract summary: This article presents a comprehensive survey of all three domains, defined under the formalism of Federal Reinforcement Learning (RL), Decentralized RL, and Noncooperative RL, respectively.<n>We include the formulations as well as known theoretical guarantees and highlights and limitations of numerical performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The increasing interest in research and innovation towards the development of autonomous agents presents a number of complex yet important scenarios of multiple AI Agents interacting with each other in an environment. The particular setting can be understood as exhibiting three possibly topologies of interaction - centrally coordinated cooperation, ad-hoc interaction and cooperation, and settings with noncooperative incentive structures. This article presents a comprehensive survey of all three domains, defined under the formalism of Federal Reinforcement Learning (RL), Decentralized RL, and Noncooperative RL, respectively. Highlighting the structural similarities and distinctions, we review the state of the art in these subjects, primarily explored and developed only recently in the literature. We include the formulations as well as known theoretical guarantees and highlights and limitations of numerical performance.

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