# Bad Influence story: S3 proposes cooperative reinforcement learning to train agent swarms

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-09 09:01. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/4866ee7d-26d3-4eba-8d1b-3bd74eaa04f6

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Latest update (11-09 09:01): S3 proposes cooperative RL to train agent swarms to coordinate

Overview: S3 researchers propose training multi-agent swarms with cooperative reinforcement learning, so agents learn when to work alone, share findings, or read teammates' work instead of following a plan written by developers. Elvis Saravia reports the claims on X: with matched budgets, S3 swarms tested at twice their training size solve over 25 times more coordination problems than the strongest baseline. In parallel exploration, communicating agents repeat nearly 50% less work and beat best-of-N by up to 9.4 points.

These figures come from the S3 proposal as relayed in a single X post; the post does not give the benchmarks or baselines behind them.

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1. 11-09 09:01 · Elvis Saravia · [S3 proposes cooperative RL to train agent swarms to coordinate](https://badinfluence.news/items/yid7wo6pcoie2tn6wfek0d9un)
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