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Ruan John de Kock

5 accepted papers

2025

Breaking the Performance Ceiling in Reinforcement Learning requires Inference Strategies

NeurIPS 2025oral

Reinforcement learning (RL) systems have countless applications, from energy-grid management to protein design. However, such real-world scenarios are often extremely difficult, combinatorial in nature, and require complex coordination between multiple agents. This level of complexity can cause even…

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2025

Oryx: a Scalable Sequence Model for Many-Agent Coordination in Offline MARL

NeurIPS 2025poster

A key challenge in offline multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is achieving effective many-agent multi-step coordination in complex environments. In this work, we propose Oryx, a novel algorithm for offline cooperative MARL to directly address this challenge. Oryx adapts the recently proposed…

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2025

Sable: a Performant, Efficient and Scalable Sequence Model for MARL

ICML 2025poster

As multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) progresses towards solving larger and more complex problems, it becomes increasingly important that algorithms exhibit the key properties of (1) strong performance, (2) memory efficiency, and (3) scalability. In this work, we introduce Sable, a performant…

2024

Jumanji: a Diverse Suite of Scalable Reinforcement Learning Environments in JAX

ICLR 2024poster

Open-source reinforcement learning (RL) environments have played a crucial role in driving progress in the development of AI algorithms. In modern RL research, there is a need for simulated environments that are performant, scalable, and modular to enable their utilization in a wider range of potent…

2022

Towards a Standardised Performance Evaluation Protocol for Cooperative MARL

NeurIPS 2022accept

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has emerged as a useful approach to solving decentralised decision-making problems at scale. Research in the field has been growing steadily with many breakthrough algorithms proposed in recent years. In this work, we take a closer look at this rapid develop…

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