This was part of Foundations of Multi-Agent and Mean Field Reinforcement Learning

Extending Mean Field RL to Partially Observable Environments, Agents of Multiple Types and Decentralized Learning

Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo

Tuesday, May 19, 2026



Slides
Abstract: Mean field theory provides an effective way of scaling multiagent reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to environments with many agents that can be abstracted by a virtual mean agent. However, vanilla mean field RL techniques assume a single type for all agents, complete observability of the action distribution of all agents and centralized learning. In this talk, I will describe extensions of mean field multiagent RL to partially observable domains, agents of multiple types and agents that learn independently of each other in a decentralized fashion.