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20222026
most citedRevisiting Some Common Practices in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

14 citations · 24 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

Verifiable Process Rewards for Agentic Reasoning

Huining Yuan, Zelai Xu, Huaijie Wang +6

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet existing approaches predominantly rely on sparse…

cs.AI2026

WideSeek-R1: Exploring Width Scaling for Broad Information Seeking via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zelai Xu, Zhexuan Xu, Ruize Zhang +7

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have largely focused on depth scaling, where a single agent solves long-horizon problems with multi-turn reasoning and tool use.…

cs.AI2026

MAGE: Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Language Agents toward Strategic Exploration and Exploitation

Lu Yang, Zelai Xu, Minyang Xie +4

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in learned tasks, yet they often struggle to adapt to non-stationary environments with feedback. While In…

cs.CL2026★ 2 cited

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

Kimi Team, Tongtong Bai, Yifan Bai +333

We introduce Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal agentic model designed to advance general agentic intelligence. K2.5 emphasizes the joint optimization of text and vision so that…

cs.LG2025

Extending Test-Time Scaling: A 3D Perspective with Context, Batch, and Turn

Chao Yu, Qixin Tan, Jiaxuan Gao +7

Reasoning reinforcement learning (RL) has recently revealed a new scaling effect: test-time scaling. Thinking models such as R1 and o1 improve their reasoning accuracy at test time…

cs.DC2025

EARL: Efficient Agentic Reinforcement Learning Systems for Large Language Models

Zheyue Tan, Mustapha Abdullahi, Tuo Shi +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a pivotal component of large language model (LLM) post-training, and agentic RL extends this paradigm to operate as agents through multi-turn…

cs.AI2025

MARSHAL: Incentivizing Multi-Agent Reasoning via Self-Play with Strategic LLMs

Huining Yuan, Zelai Xu, Zheyue Tan +10

Developing Large Language Models (LLMs) to cooperate and compete effectively within multi-agent systems (MASs) is a critical step towards more advanced intelligence. While reinforc…

cs.AI2025

RE-PO: Robust Enhanced Policy Optimization as a General Framework for LLM Alignment

Xiaoyang Cao, Zelai Xu, Mo Guang +4

Standard human preference-based alignment methods, such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), are a cornerstone for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human…

cs.AI2025

Mastering Multi-Drone Volleyball through Hierarchical Co-Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

Ruize Zhang, Sirui Xiang, Zelai Xu +6

In this paper, we tackle the problem of learning to play 3v3 multi-drone volleyball, a new embodied competitive task that requires both high-level strategic coordination and low-le…

cs.CR2025

AED: Automatic Discovery of Effective and Diverse Vulnerabilities for Autonomous Driving Policy with Large Language Models

Le Qiu, Zelai Xu, Qixin Tan +3

Assessing the safety of autonomous driving policy is of great importance, and reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful method for discovering critical vulnerabilities…

cs.AI2025

Learning Strategic Language Agents in the Werewolf Game with Iterative Latent Space Policy Optimization

Zelai Xu, Wanjun Gu, Chao Yu +2

Large language model (LLM) agents have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in various domains like open-ended conversation and multi-step decision-making. However, it rem…

cs.RO2025

VolleyBots: A Testbed for Multi-Drone Volleyball Game Combining Motion Control and Strategic Play

Zelai Xu, Ruize Zhang, Chao Yu +9

Robot sports, characterized by well-defined objectives, explicit rules, and dynamic interactions, present ideal scenarios for demonstrating embodied intelligence. In this paper, we…

cs.AI2024

A Survey on Self-play Methods in Reinforcement Learning

Ruize Zhang, Zelai Xu, Chengdong Ma +8

Self-play, a learning paradigm where agents iteratively refine their policies by interacting with historical or concurrent versions of themselves or other evolving agents, has show…

cs.AI2023

Fictitious Cross-Play: Learning Global Nash Equilibrium in Mixed Cooperative-Competitive Games

Zelai Xu, Yancheng Liang, Chao Yu +2

Self-play (SP) is a popular multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework for solving competitive games, where each agent optimizes policy by treating others as part of the e…

cs.AI2023★ 8 cited

Language Agents with Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Play in the Werewolf Game

Zelai Xu, Chao Yu, Fei Fang +2

Agents built with large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential across a wide range of domains. However, in complex decision-making tasks, pure LLM-based agents tend to e…

cs.LG2023

Accelerate Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Zero-Sum Games with Subgame Curriculum Learning

Jiayu Chen, Zelai Xu, Yunfei Li +6

Learning Nash equilibrium (NE) in complex zero-sum games with multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) can be extremely computationally expensive. Curriculum learning is an effect…

cs.AI2022★ 14 cited

Revisiting Some Common Practices in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Wei Fu, Chao Yu, Zelai Xu +2

Many advances in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) are based on two common design principles: value decomposition and parameter sharing. A typical MARL algorith…