AI RESEARCH

Equilibrium Selection in Multi-Agent Policy Gradients via Opponent-Aware Basin Entry

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.18078v1 Announce Type: new Multi-agent policy-gradient methods have been shown to converge locally near stable Nash equilibria. Local convergence, however, does not determine which equilibrium is reached. We study this question through basin-entry probability with respect to a target set of equilibria selected by an external criterion, such as payoff dominance. For finite-unroll Meta-MAPG, we show that the update decomposes into ordinary policy gradient plus own-learning and peer-learning corrections, with controlled sampling noise and finite-unroll bias.