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The Role of Network Topology and Opponent Information in Shaping Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 29, 2026 · UTC

Several works have investigated the influence of graph topology on cooperation among artificial agents, while the majority of the literature has focused on modelling agents' adaptation through strategy imitation, which relies solely on the cumulative payoffs of others. This paper investigates scenarios in which each agent learns to play the two-player Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD) using deep reinforcement learning. Each agent is represented as a node in a graph, where its neighbours constitute the pool of opponents with whom it can interact. During each IPD episode, agents are provided wit

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