Your first multi-agent RL project will teach you a hard truth: everything you know about single-agent training breaks the moment a second learner enters the room.
Non-stationarity sets in. Rewards stop meaning what you think they mean. And the fixes that worked for a single policy quietly make things worse.
This is the book for engineers and researchers who already know single-agent RL and are ready for what comes next — written by a practitioner who's built coordinating robot fleets, adversarial trading agents, and cooperating LLM agent teams, and who still remembers exactly where it went wrong the first time.
Inside, you'll learn:
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