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Learning to Harvest Without Collapse in a Regenerative Commons: A Lagrangian Framework

Jose Tupayachi, Xueping Li, Soham Das

arXiv:2609.36478v1cs.AIcs.GT

TL;DR

Reward-seeking agents can deplete a shared resource, while cooperation alone does not specify how much stock must be preserved. The paper imposes a depletion budget and uses a nonstationary Lagrangian policy sequence for reset episodes. Its analysis gives feasibility and performance guarantees under stated assumptions, and fishery experiments illustrate budget-dependent resource regulation.

  • Problem

    Reward-seeking agents can collectively degrade a shared resource, and cooperation does not itself specify the stock that must be preserved.

    Source: §1 · pp. 1–2

  • Method

    A nonstationary Lagrangian framework selects stationary policies at successive depletion prices and evaluates their sequence across reset episodes.

    Source: §1 · p. 2

  • Results

    The analysis establishes reward-independent feasibility, cooperative feasibility and approximate reward guarantees, and a constrained Nash certificate under stated assumptions.

    Source: §1 · p. 2

  • Takeaways & Limitations

    A designer-specified depletion budget gives resource protection a quantitative target while allowing changing policies to share the requirement across episodes.

    Source: §1 · p. 2, §5 · p. 11

    Terminal depletion does not control within-episode stock minima or ensure safety in every episode, so irreversible-collapse settings may require trajectory-event control.

    Source: §4.3 · p. 11

Abstract

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The tragedy of the commons poses a multi-agent safety problem: reward-seeking agents can deplete a shared resource, and cooperation among its users does not itself specify how much must be preserved. We make preservation an explicit requirement by formulating a regenerative commons as a constrained Markov game or a constrained multi-agent MDP with a designer-specified depletion budget. We develop a nonstationary Lagrangian framework that constructs a policy sequence from solutions of unconstrained games or cooperative control problems. Extending earlier time-average constructions, we introduce average-epoch solution concepts for reset episodes with discounted rewards and terminal costs. We prove a reward-independent feasibility certificate, cooperative feasibility and approximate optimality against feasible policy mixtures, and an extension to unbiased sampled costs. For self-interested agents, a constrained Nash certificate quantifies the price-dispersion term introduced by deviations that redistribute budget across epochs. Under the stated assumptions on solver accuracy and multiplier updates, these results give constrained policy-sequence guarantees using solutions of unconstrained problems. Experiments with constrained IPPO and MAPPO in a Gordon-Schaefer fishery examine how depletion budgets shape stock retention, harvest rewards, and price adaptation.

1 Introduction

The paper makes resource preservation an explicit requirement for multi-agent learning by imposing a depletion budget on a regenerative commons. It develops average-epoch Lagrangian policy-sequence guarantees for reset episodes and illustrates budget-driven regulation in a fishery.

1 Introduction

  • A depletion budget specifies how much shared stock may be lost, separating participant rewards from the resource-preservation requirement.The paper applies this formulation to individual-reward games and team-reward control problems.Source: §1 · p. 2
  • The framework selects stationary policies at changing prices and evaluates the resulting sequence across reset episodes, allowing lower-depletion episodes to offset higher-depletion ones.Expected terminal depletion is averaged across episodes, with each episode using one stationary policy on the augmented state.Source: §1 · p. 2

1.1 Related work and position

  • The theory extends time-average policy-sequence constructions to discounted episodic rewards and terminal costs, with cooperative guarantees and a constrained Nash certificate that accounts for price dispersion.The analysis includes feasibility, cooperative reward comparisons against feasible mixtures, unbiased sampled costs, and strategic deviations that redistribute budget across epochs.Source: §1 · p. 2, §1.1 · p. 3

1 Introduction

  • Gordon–Schaefer fishery experiments with IPPO and MAPPO illustrate how depletion budgets shape stock, harvest, and multiplier trajectories.The supplied introduction describes the experiments’ focus but does not report a quantitative comparison.Source: §1 · pp. 2–3

2 A Regenerative Commons and Its Solution Concepts

The paper models a regenerative commons using an average terminal-depletion budget across reset episodes. This criterion permits policy sequences to share the budget, while distinguishing coordinated team reward from individual incentives and feasible deviations.

2 A Regenerative Commons and Its Solution Concepts

  • Each episode uses a stationary policy on an augmented observation that includes episode time, and the selected policy may change between reset episodes.The fishery setup considers two harvesters sharing biomass, with effort determining catch under a Gordon–Schaefer transition.Source: §2 · p. 4
  • Average-epoch feasibility requires expected terminal stock, averaged across episodes, to be at least (1 − ε)K.The depletion budget is the same ecological requirement in the individual-reward CMG and team-reward CM-MDP.Source: §2 · p. 4
  • The average-epoch criterion is appropriate when resource requirements may be balanced across reset episodes, not when safety requires control of every episode’s stock trajectory.A public uniform draw of one shared policy index reproduces the sequence’s average values, but need not improve on unrestricted randomized stationary policies.Source: §2 · pp. 4–5
  • The average budget allows policies with different depletion levels to compensate across episodes rather than requiring every selected policy to meet the budget individually.For ε = 0.1, equal use of policies with expected depletion 0.05 and 0.15 meets the average budget, though the latter exceeds it individually.Source: §2 · p. 4
  • The cooperative benchmark compares team value with the best feasible policy sequence, whereas the game criterion tests whether an agent can improve through an average-feasible unilateral deviation.In the strategic test, opponents’ policy sequences remain fixed, and a deviation may redistribute its budget across episodes.Source: §2 · p. 5

3 Lagrangian Policy Sequences and Guarantees

The framework selects stationary solutions to unconstrained Lagrangian problems at successive depletion prices and evaluates their policy sequence. Its guarantees cover average feasibility, cooperative reward, sampled costs, and constrained unilateral deviations under stated assumptions.

3 Lagrangian Policy Sequences and Guarantees

  • At each price, an unconstrained solver selects a stationary game equilibrium or team policy, which is executed for an episode before depletion updates the shared price.The returned policy sequence, rather than a single limiting policy, is the object evaluated by the framework.Source: §3 · pp. 5–6
  • Sublinear multiplier growth certifies realized average-epoch feasibility for any realized costs, independently of reward optimization.With conditionally unbiased sampled costs and bounded episodes, the asymptotic feasibility statement also holds almost surely for expected costs.Source: §3 · pp. 6–7
  • Under strict feasibility and approximate team-Lagrangian optimization, the policy sequence has finite-sequence feasibility and reward bounds against feasible policy mixtures.With λ0 = 0 and η = M^-1/2, the stated finite-horizon terms are O(M^-1/2); constants worsen as strict slack shrinks.Source: §3 · p. 7
  • With conditionally unbiased sampled costs and the cooperative assumptions, multiplier growth is O(log M) almost surely and sampled and expected average depletion are asymptotically feasible.The reward guarantee is in expectation, and the finite-sample cost bound includes an O(M^-1/2) sampling term.Source: §3 · p. 7
  • The constrained Nash certificate bounds average budget excess and each agent’s gain from an average-feasible deviation sequence against fixed opponents.Its additional price-dispersion term captures how budget shifted toward high-price epochs can affect the bound; the certificate does not assert that its tolerances vanish.Source: §3 · pp. 7–8
  • The experiments use IPPO for individual rewards and MAPPO for team reward, with approximate PPO updates, dense reward shaping, and capped PI feedback.Several budget regimes exhibit depletion below or near their targets, illustrating regulation beyond the precise implementation analyzed in theory.Source: §3 · p. 8

4 Experiments

The experiments examine budget tracking, harvest return, and price adaptation with practical IPPO and MAPPO learners. Results vary with the depletion budget, while the displayed late-training measurements do not establish full-sequence feasibility or safety within episodes.

4 Experiments

  • The evaluation tracks terminal depletion, harvest return, and price over the final 2,000 of 20,000 training epochs for six budgets and three seeds per method–budget pair.These late-window curves are not held-out final-policy evaluations or the full-sequence average-cost quantity.Source: §4 · p. 8

4.1 Constraint tracking is budget- and window-dependent

  • The smallest budgets produce strong stock preservation, while intermediate-budget depletion varies around targets and seed means can conceal exceedances.Curves below the reference line meet the budget in the displayed measurement; crossings indicate excess depletion.Source: §4.1 · p. 9, Figure 1 · p. 9

4.2 The reward–sustainability tradeoff

  • Tight budgets accompany low harvest return, while larger budgets generally show higher returns, with little separation between MAPPO at budgets .4 and .6.The plotted return is undiscounted total harvest divided by carrying capacity, not the discounted theoretical objective.Source: §4.2 · p. 9, Figure 2 · p. 10
  • Tight budgets sustain positive ecological prices, but price trajectories vary and do not follow a universal monotone ordering by budget.Price is a feedback signal whose evolution reflects budget excess, slack, and changing policies.Source: §4.2 · pp. 9–10, Figure 3 · p. 10

4.3 Empirical scope and implementation limits

  • The experiments use stochastic policies in one two-agent environment, and PPO’s shaped rewards and capped PI feedback differ from the exact theoretical updates.Displayed excursions rule out per-epoch feasibility but neither establish nor refute full-sequence average feasibility; the experiments do not measure oracle error or optimality gaps.Source: §4.3 · p. 11
  • Terminal depletion does not control within-episode stock minima or ensure safety in every episode; the fishery also lacks the uniform unilateral Slater condition needed for a Nash claim.For irreversible-collapse settings, the passage points to controlling the relevant trajectory event, potentially with a safety filter.Source: §4.3 · p. 11

5 Conclusion

The paper makes resource preservation an explicit depletion-budget requirement and develops average-epoch guarantees for policy sequences in a regenerative commons. Its fishery experiments illustrate budget effects on stock, harvest, and price, while its episodic setting differs from earlier continuous-time-average results.

5 Conclusion

  • The framework connects unconstrained game or team-problem solutions to feasibility, cooperative reward, and constrained Nash guarantees under stated assumptions.The fishery experiments illustrate how the budget shapes terminal stock, harvest return, and price adaptation through generated policy sequences.Source: §5 · p. 11
  • The depletion budget gives resource protection a specified quantitative target for evaluating the policy sequences generated as agents learn to use the commons.Cooperation alone does not specify how much stock must be preserved.Source: §5 · p. 11

A Relation to the average-reward Lagrangian results

  • Unlike the cited source results, the fishery resets stock between finite episodes, uses discounted episodic rewards, and measures terminal cost.These changes alter policy evaluation, comparison alternatives, and solver problems, although the dual-update algebra remains intact.Source: A Relation to the average-reward… · p. 17

A.1 Original constrained Markov-game result

The appendix distinguishes earlier average-reward guarantees for constrained games and cooperative control from the paper’s reset-episode results. Their guarantees depend on different feasibility conditions, oracle assumptions, and notions of comparison.

A.1 Original constrained Markov-game result

  • In the original game construction, stationary policies are held for epochs and rollout constraint values drive projected dual descent; upper-bound terminal depletion uses the opposite sign from its lower-bound constraint.The proof controls multiplier growth through player-specific generalized duals because a general-sum game has no single team dual objective.Source: §A.1 · p. 17
  • The original constrained Markov-game result uses an approximate-Nash oracle, uniform unilateral strict feasibility, bounded values, and unbiased rollouts to obtain long-run feasibility and an approximate nonstationary Nash guarantee.Its stated gap is of order ηB2/2 + δ.Source: §A.1 · p. 17
  • A shared renewable stock may violate uniform unilateral Slater feasibility, and time-average results do not by themselves establish the paper’s reset-episode equilibrium concept.In the fishery, one harvester cannot restore biomass by abstaining when the other extracts maximally.Source: §A.1 · p. 17

A.2 Original safe cooperative-MARL result

  • The cooperative average-reward result assumes a jointly strictly feasible policy, bounded values, an approximately optimal oracle, and unbiased rollouts, and compares joint reward with the best stationary feasible joint policy.It is a cooperative joint-value benchmark, not a Nash condition.Source: §A.2 · p. 18
  • For reset episodes, Proposition 2 proves cooperative feasibility and reward bounds against every feasible mixture, while Theorem 2 extends the result to unbiased sampled costs.The paper does not establish comparable PPO solution-error or optimality bounds.Source: §A.2 · p. 18

B Complete proofs and the average-epoch equilibrium question

  • The proof setup requires policies and comparators to lie in the specified policy class, including the cooperative strictly feasible policy, and treats δ as exact-Lagrangian value error rather than a PPO training metric.Reward values are bounded for finite comparisons.Source: B Complete proofs and the… · p. 18

B.1 Full proof of Proposition 1

The proof turns the projected multiplier update into a pathwise accounting certificate: sublinear price growth implies average feasibility without reward or oracle assumptions. Sampling arguments extend the conclusion to conditional expected costs, while the dual-energy lemma controls price-weighted violations.

B.1 Full proof of Proposition 1

  • Summing the projected updates gives a pathwise bound on realized average budget excess; sublinear multiplier growth therefore implies realized average feasibility.This calculation uses no reward or oracle assumption.Source: §B.1 · p. 19
  • On realizations with sublinear multiplier growth and S_M/M → 0, the conditional expected average cost has limit superior at most ε.The proof relates sampled costs to policy values using conditional unbiasedness and a bounded martingale-difference argument.Source: §B.1 · pp. 19–20
  • The fixed-horizon bound holds with probability at least 1 − β and does not require sublinear multiplier growth.It follows from a lower-tail bound for sampled costs.Source: §B.1 · p. 20
  • Vanishing average sampling bias preserves asymptotic feasibility, whereas persistent bias need not.The bias contributes an additional average-bias term to the certificate.Source: §B.1 · p. 20

B.2 A dual-energy lemma

  • The dual-energy lemma bounds average price-weighted violations using a telescoping squared-multiplier quantity and bounded update violations.Its pathwise argument applies to expected or sampled violations when those quantities drive the projected update.Source: §B.2 · pp. 20–21

B.3 Full proof of Proposition 2

The proof first bounds the cooperative multiplier using strict feasibility, then combines the oracle comparison with a dual-energy bound. This yields approximate reward optimality against feasible finite mixtures alongside a finite-horizon feasibility tolerance.

B.3 Full proof of Proposition 2

  • Strict feasibility bounds the multipliers: above a price threshold the strictly feasible comparator prevents further price increases, and below it one update cannot overshoot the bound.The threshold depends on reward range, oracle tolerance, and strict-feasibility margin.Source: §B.3 · p. 21
  • The oracle comparison can be averaged over any feasible finite mixture even when its individual support policies are infeasible.Linearity of mixture values and nonnegative prices suffice; the oracle need not optimize over mixtures.Source: §B.3 · p. 22
  • The executed sequence’s reward is bounded below by the best feasible finite-mixture reward minus the stated error, while feasibility holds up to a finite-horizon tolerance.Any feasible length-M sequence itself induces an equal-weight feasible mixture, so the comparison does not require an optimal mixture to be attained.Source: §B.3 · p. 22
  • For a prescribed horizon M, η = M^-1/2 and λ_0 = 0 give a family of finite-horizon guarantees, not a single run with η = k^-1/2.At fixed η, average feasibility is asymptotically exact while the reward tolerance retains δ + ηG^2/2.Source: §B.3 · p. 22

B.4 Sampled-cost cooperative guarantee

With conditionally unbiased sampled costs, the proof controls multiplier growth through a negative-drift argument and an exponential-moment bound. This supports asymptotic feasibility almost surely and a finite-horizon probabilistic cost guarantee; the reward comparison is in expectation.

B.4 Sampled-cost cooperative guarantee

  • Under conditional unbiasedness and the cooperative assumptions, both realized and conditional-expected average costs have limit superior at most ε almost surely.The proof obtains sublinear multiplier growth, λ_M = O(log M), from a uniform exponential-moment bound.Source: §B.4 · pp. 23–24
  • For fixed M, the sampled-cost guarantee holds with probability at least 1 − β.The proof combines a multiplier tail bound and a sampling bound by a union bound.Source: §B.4 · pp. 23–24
  • When the multiplier is large, its conditional expected increment is negative even though an individual sampled update may increase it.The bounded sampled increment and negative conditional drift support the exponential-moment control.Source: §B.4 · p. 23
  • A uniform exponential-moment bound yields the eventual almost-sure growth rate λ_M = O(log M), not a deterministic bound on every multiplier.The tail argument applies Markov’s inequality and Borel–Cantelli.Source: §B.4 · p. 24
  • The sampled-cost reward guarantee compares expected reward with feasible finite mixtures under the same oracle and step-size errors.The error bound is uniform over feasible finite mixtures; the conclusion concerns expected reward, unlike the almost-sure feasibility conclusions.Source: §B.4 · pp. 24–25

B.5 What a full average-epoch Nash certificate requires

The proof bounds unilateral gains for average-feasible deviations by accounting for price dispersion, while a common supporting price can give an exact certificate. It also identifies limits of game-oracle feasibility and of the implemented PI controller and shaping objective.

B.5 What a full average-epoch Nash certificate requires

  • Average-feasible unilateral deviations receive a uniform reward-gain bound, producing an average-epoch constrained Nash certificate with feasibility tolerance.The proof does not establish convergence of the certificate tolerances; sustained price oscillations can leave a positive dispersion term.Source: §B.5 · p. 26
  • A common-price Lagrangian Nash profile, average feasibility, and complementary slackness suffice for an exact constrained Nash profile, without asserting existence or convergence.A shared price selects a more restricted class than allowing players different constant supporting prices.Source: §B.5 · p. 27

B.6 Why joint feasibility alone cannot control a game oracle

  • Joint strict feasibility does not ensure game-oracle feasibility: an exact Nash oracle can repeatedly select a profile whose average cost exceeds the budget.In the example, unilateral action changes cannot lower the common cost against an opponent who continues harvesting, though joint changes can.Source: §B.6 · p. 27
  • A uniform unilateral Slater condition restores multiplier control and feasibility, but does not by itself control the price-dispersion term for average-feasible strategic deviations.The unilateral condition requires each player to have a feasible alternative against every opponents’ policy.Source: §B.6 · p. 27

B.7 The implemented PI controller and shaping error

  • Capped PI multipliers do not certify feasibility: persistent unit sampled costs can leave positive average violation despite bounded prices.For the stated recursion, the multiplier eventually reaches its cap while the average violation remains 1 − ε.Source: §B.7 · p. 28
  • A shaped actor objective with uniform discrepancy e from the terminal-cost objective yields oracle tolerance δ + 2λe.The same comparison applies to unilateral alternatives when the discrepancy bound is uniform over them.Source: §B.7 · p. 28

C Properties of the Gordon–Schaefer environment

The fishery calculations verify the bounds and feasibility conditions used by the theory, distinguish joint from unilateral preservation, and clarify what terminal depletion measures. Policy sequences can allocate the budget across episodes, but do not necessarily outperform unrestricted randomized stationary control.

C Properties of the Gordon–Schaefer environment

  • The stock remains in [0, 1], and bounded per-step catch yields a team-return range of K(1 − γ^H)/(1 − γ) for γ < 1 or KH for γ = 1.Joint zero effort preserves the initial stock, while zero stock is absorbing until reset.Source: C Properties of the Gordon–Schaefer… · pp. 28–29
  • For any positive budget, joint abstention gives strict feasibility, but unit effort by an opponent can make every unilateral response violate the tested budgets.At zero budget, strict feasibility is impossible because depletion is nonnegative.Source: C Properties of the Gordon–Schaefer… · pp. 29–30
  • Under constant effort, d < 1 implies geometric stock decay, while d > 1 yields a positive locally stable fixed point under the lemma’s stated conditions.These constant-effort properties do not characterize learned equilibrium policies.Source: C Properties of the Gordon–Schaefer… · pp. 29–30
  • Undiscounted one-sided loss equals terminal depletion plus accumulated positive stock increments, so it upper-bounds endpoint depletion along each path.Discounted, scaled, per-agent attribution is a different quantity and has no corresponding equality with global endpoint cost.Source: C Properties of the Gordon–Schaefer… · p. 31

C.1 Why policy sequences can help, and what that does not establish

  • Across reset episodes, mixing low-cost and high-reward policies can meet a budget even when a component policy is infeasible, but an unrestricted stationary randomized policy can attain the same example outcome.In finite fully observed cooperative MDPs, an episode mixture can be represented by a time-dependent joint Markov policy, though decentralization or restricted policy classes may prevent that construction.Source: §C.1 · pp. 31–32

D.1 The outer primal–dual policy-sequence method

The method generates policy sequences by adjusting a shared depletion price and solving unconstrained problems at successive prices. The appendix distinguishes theoretical oracle updates from practical PPO implementations and records the assumptions and probability tools relevant to their analysis.

D.1 The outer primal–dual policy-sequence method

  • A shared multiplier adjusts with budget excess, replacing one constrained problem with a sequence of unconstrained control problems or games, though each inner solve remains nontrivial.The cooperative update has a dual-subgradient interpretation; in games, prices index successive Lagrangian games.Source: §D.1 · p. 32
  • For reset episodes, cycle-average reward and endpoint cost match a terminal-transition cost averaged per time step only with fixed-length cycles and resets.This equivalence does not turn discounted reward into average physical-time catch or apply to a fishery without resets.Source: §D.1 · p. 32

D.2 Common discounted PPO computations

  • The practical learners use PPO with episode-wise GAE and zero terminal bootstrap, while the implementation uses fixed rollout data across PPO passes and distinct IPPO and MAPPO advantages.The continuing average-reward estimator is a separate formulation; a large block alone does not establish an unbiased estimate of its value.Source: §D.1 · p. 32, §D.2 · p. 33

D.3 Independent PPO with the shared ecological price

  • IPPO trains independent actors on individual catch with a shared ecological price, but supplies neither an opponent policy nor an opponent critic to local updates.The shared feedback is not centralized optimization of individual rewards, and clipping does not certify a Nash best response.Source: §D.3 · p. 34

D.4 MAPPO with the cooperative ecological price

  • MAPPO uses decentralized actors with a centralized critic and shared team advantage, so its comparison with IPPO changes both critic architecture and reward objective.The performance difference therefore cannot be attributed solely to centralizing the critic.Source: §D.4 · p. 34

E Standard probability tools utilized

  • The appendix’s probability tools include conditional expectation identities, union bounds, Borel–Cantelli, and conditional Hoeffding bounds; the stated results require no independence unless specified.The first Borel–Cantelli direction and conditional Hoeffding statement explicitly require no independence.Source: E Standard probability tools utilized · pp. 35–36

F Experimental system and implementation

The experiments train separate constrained controllers with PPO-based IPPO and MAPPO, then evaluate raw return and terminal depletion rather than shaped training reward. The plot notes define the training window, budget encodings, and seed-range displays.

F Experimental system and implementation

  • Each method–budget–seed combination trains a separate controller for 20,000 epochs, with a 60-step episode horizon.The implementation uses a shared proportional–integral price controller with current and accumulated budget-excess feedback.Source: Table A1 · p. 37, F Experimental system and implementation · p. 37
  • Evaluation reports unpenalized normalized return and terminal depletion, while actor updates use shaped PPO advantages based on one-sided loss.IPPO allocates that loss in proportion to catch; MAPPO receives the team penalty.Source: F Experimental system and implementation · p. 37

F.1 Reading the experimental plots

  • Figures 1–3 show only the final 2,000 of 20,000 epochs; their envelopes give the minimum–maximum across three seeds, not uncertainty intervals.The depletion curves’ dotted lines mark budget targets, and the six colors encode ε values from 0.01 to 0.6.Source: §F.1 · p. 38

G Interpretation of the experimental curves

Figures 1–3 show late-training stock regulation, harvest returns, and evolving prices, but do not certify full-training feasibility or a monotone price law. The literature review distinguishes the paper’s explicit-budget policy-sequence approach and strategic certificate from related work.

G Interpretation of the experimental curves

  • At the smallest budget, Figure 1’s depletion curves lie below the reference line; intermediate-budget means and seed envelopes vary around prescribed levels, not establishing full-training feasibility.The three-seed envelope shows observed variation, not uncertainty in an expected-cost estimate; individual exceedances can coexist with average-epoch feasibility through slack epochs.Source: G Interpretation of the experimental… · pp. 38–39
  • Figure 2 shows low harvest return at the tightest budget and higher returns at larger budgets, while MAPPO’s team returns at budgets .4 and .6 are close.Returns are total unpenalized harvest divided by carrying capacity, not the discounted theoretical objective; greater harvest in a violating epoch does not establish a better feasible solution.Source: G Interpretation of the experimental… · p. 39
  • Figure 3’s IPPO and MAPPO prices keep changing direction across budgets, so the observed trajectories show adaptation rather than a universal monotone price ordering.These are evolving controller outputs, not certified equilibrium multipliers.Source: G Interpretation of the experimental… · p. 39
  • For fixed realized cost and integral state, increasing ε lowers the PI error and weakens its update, but cross-run price behavior also reflects changing policies and depletion.A near-zero or bounded price does not certify whole-sequence feasibility or the multiplier-growth certificate.Source: G Interpretation of the experimental… · p. 39

H Extended literature review

  • Unlike temporal-coordination work on sustainable harvesting, the paper generates epoch-dependent policies through depletion-price feedback and evaluates them against an explicit average-epoch budget.Danassis et al. (2022) study coordination using a common periodic signal; the paper connects temporal resource allocation to constrained solution guarantees.Source: H Extended literature review · p. 40
  • The framework builds on policy mixing and unconstrained RL precedents but uses reset-episode terminal costs and invokes an unconstrained oracle at each price, retaining its returned policy.This differs from conditioning one learned actor on the multiplier.Source: H Extended literature review · p. 40
  • The strategic certificate assumes bounded unilateral gain from deviation in each unconstrained game, not bounded departure from potential structure, and includes price dispersion when deviations redistribute budget across epochs.It therefore does not replace learning guarantees that rely on potential or approximate-potential structure.Source: H Extended literature review · p. 41

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