Unverified
2026
Lambert-W Attention-Range Controller
Use the paper's first-passage crossover as a controller for the communication or attention radius of a multi-agent policy. Instead of fixing a costly global attention range, estimate environmental depletion statistics online and set the radius near the predicted equality of individual and collective search times, expanding it only when the environment enters the collective-search regime. This turns a statistical-mechanical transition formula into an adaptive sparsification rule.
Paper: Emergent aggregation from collective foraging
arXiv:2608.28046