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PopGen uses LLMs to create diverse agent populations for zero-shot cooperation

Researchers have developed PopGen, a new framework that utilizes large language models (LLMs) to generate diverse populations of agents for multi-agent reinforcement learning. Unlike previous methods that relied on trajectory-level diversity, PopGen synthesizes agents from scratch by first creating textual descriptions of distinct behaviors and then translating these into executable code policies. This approach enables cooperators trained with PopGen populations to achieve robust zero-shot cooperation with unseen partners, outperforming existing population-play baselines across multiple collaborative environments. AI

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PopGen uses LLMs to create diverse agent populations for zero-shot cooperation

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Paul Teiletche, Kanghyun Ryu, Kyungjoon Park, Dhruva Tirumala, Markus Wulfmeier, Negar Mehr ·

    PopGen: Generating Semantically Diverse Populations for Zero-Shot Coordination

    arXiv:2610.15969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-agent reinforcement learning, exposing a cooperator to partners with diverse strategies during training is key to better collaboration at test time. However, existing methods typically rely on trajectory-level proxies to me…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Negar Mehr ·

    PopGen: Generating Semantically Diverse Populations for Zero-Shot Coordination

    In multi-agent reinforcement learning, exposing a cooperator to partners with diverse strategies during training is key to better collaboration at test time. However, existing methods typically rely on trajectory-level proxies to measure diversity, which may label two distinct tr…