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Fault-tolerant-trained MARL

Permanent communication loss evaluation

Fault: Communication loss
Duration: Permanent
Recovery mechanism: Fault-tolerant-trained MARL

Experiment definition

The experiment evaluates Fault-tolerant-trained MARL under a permanent communication loss injection. Fault onset is randomized between environment steps 40 and 60.

Expected evaluation record

MetricRecorded value
Degradation-area4.14 ± 1.60 (corrected; mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
Safety-violation excess12.9 ± 5.4 (weighted, control-subtracted; mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
Fraction of time healthy0.669 ± 0.012 (mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
Relapse count0.77 ± 0.18 (mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
False-recovery raten/a - no fault detector (trained policy only)
Intervention recalln/a - no fault detector (trained policy only)

Values are means with 95% confidence intervals across every target × duration-fixed combination shown on this page (see graphs below), 8 evaluation seeds each, for each of 3 training seeds. See the Results page for the cross-mechanism comparison.

Experimental trajectory graphs

One representative run (evaluation seed 0 of 8, training seed 1 of 3) per target × mode combination from the full sweep. See the Results page for the multi-seed aggregate comparison across mechanisms. The graphs for every seed are archived at doi:10.5281/zenodo.23304785 (files available from 10 November 2026).

Pressing Agent Target (blackout mode)

Communication loss permanent fault, Fault-tolerant-trained MARL, Pressing Agent Target (blackout mode)
Fault-tolerant-trained MARL - Pressing Agent Target (blackout mode) - evaluation trajectory under permanent communication loss (fault onset randomized between steps 40-60), seed 0 of the 8-seed sweep, training seed 1 of 3.

Pressing Agent Target (stale mode)

Communication loss permanent fault, Fault-tolerant-trained MARL, Pressing Agent Target (stale mode)
Fault-tolerant-trained MARL - Pressing Agent Target (stale mode) - evaluation trajectory under permanent communication loss (fault onset randomized between steps 40-60), seed 0 of the 8-seed sweep, training seed 1 of 3.

Notes

This page is intentionally separated from the paper-facing results so that full-resolution plots, additional seeds, and diagnostic figures can be documented without overloading the publication.