cond-mat.stat-mech · 2026-08-31 · No. 101

Statistical Mechanics, 2026-08-31.

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    Emergent aggregation from collective foraging

    Gorka Muñoz-Gil, Andrea López-Incera, Vide Ramsten, Giovanni Volpe, Thomas Müller, Hans J. Briegel

    cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.LG · cs.MA · nlin.AO · physics.bio-ph

    Collective behaviour in living systems is usually modelled as the outcome of a \emph{direct} social drive: agents are rewarded, or hard-wired, to align with or approach their neighbours. Here we show that aggregation can instead emerge from an \emph{indirect} objective. We let reinforcement learning foragers, initially performing a random walk, optimize their dynamics from a purely individual reward for finding replenishable targets, while...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.28046 · PDF

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