Researchreinforcement learningevolutionary game theorymulti agentsocial coordination
Reinforcement Learning Explains Social Cooperation Dynamics
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A Feb 4, 2026 arXiv preprint by Li Chen reviews how reinforcement learning (RL) models reproduce cooperation, fairness, trust, and resource coordination in evolutionary game dynamics. It synthesizes recent studies contrasting RL's trial-and-error learning with imitation-based paradigms, highlighting RL's unified explanatory power across social and ecological settings. The review implies modeling practitioners should prioritize RL frameworks for multi-agent social and ecological research.
