Role Call: Who Your Agents Are Actually Listening To
TL;DR for operators Teams are easy to label. Understanding who actually listens to whom is harder. Hong’s paper on learned coordination conventions proposes a diagnostic for inspecting how cooperative reinforcement-learning agents route information between predefined roles.1 The central move is architectural: place role labels in both the querying agent’s representation and each ally’s representation, then use cross-attention to expose a role-to-role routing matrix. ...