The Flag Game: a toy setting to study agent swarm dynamics and cooperation
Hidenori8Tanaka · x · 2026-10-02
Hidenori Tanaka's team, led by Elizabeth Pavlova, released a paper and blog on the basic science of agent swarm dynamics. Their "Flag Game" toy setting gives each agent small snippets of a flag, forcing agents to cooperate to reconstruct it. Paper, blog, and a playable demo are available.
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