An index of where each part of the project now lives. The original markdown corpus has been folded into the pages of this site; the source binaries (PDFs, LaTeX, the taxonomy YAML tree) are preserved as downloads below.
How to read this page. Section 1 points each major topic to its in-site page — that is where the narrative, figures, and digests now live. Section 2 lists the original source files (papers, LaTeX, the auto-generated field-map tree) kept for download under assets/sources/. Section 3 notes the code repositories that are not bundled here.
1On this site
Each topic below has been written up as a page. Follow the link for the full treatment.
- Field Map — The MARL / agentic-AI field map (2019–2026): the catalog of entries and surveys organised by interaction mode, the cooperative-vs-collaborative axis, and the candidate-gap analysis that positions this work. Auto-generated from the taxonomy YAML (downloadable in Section 2).
- Theory & Formalism — The formal model: the Networked Dec-POMDP / POSG tuple with a dynamic comm graph, the CTDE state split, the attack-channel and stealth/intervention/detectability parameters. Mirrors formalism.tex (downloadable in Section 2).
- Mission Taxonomy — The Sense / Organize / Act mission taxonomy: the ternary-simplex placement of deployments and hardware anchors (Kilobot, CADRE, OFFSET, Starling), and why coupling mechanism determines the attack surface. Built from the standalone mission-taxonomy LaTeX (downloadable in Section 2).
- Literature, MRS Borrow & the Gap — The related-work review: prior swarm/MARL taxonomies, the multi-robot canon worth borrowing (connectivity estimation, coverage control, connectivity-constrained exploration), and the conjunction of axes that remains novel.
- Results & Findings — The quantitative results from RedWithinBlue: the cooperative coverage ladder, the n=60 adversarial-validation sweep (the action-stream channel is statistically silent; damage scales with how many agents are compromised; the quietest "stay" attacker is most damaging; co-evolution is a defender-side fragility).
- Architecture — The JAX/Flax pipeline: the PureJaxRL single-JIT train loop, the CTDE actor / central-critic design, the warm-start weight-transfer ladder, and the environment / comm-graph API.
- Emergence — The emergent-behaviour story: explorer/relay role differentiation, symmetry-breaking, the connectivity guardrail, and the graph-belief swarm design (Compass / SLAM / Emergence).
- Journey — The research narrative: how the question evolved from single-agent coverage to covert-misbehavior resilience, the negative results (TD(0) collapse, statistically silent belief corruption), and the decisions taken and abandoned.
2Downloadable sources (preserved)
The original source files, preserved verbatim under assets/sources/. These are the binaries the pages above were built from.
- formalism.pdf PDF — The standalone formal model — the compiled formalism document (Networked Dec-POMDP, attack channels, stealth parameters).
- formalism.tex LaTeX — LaTeX source for the formalism document above.
- Swarm_resiliency_v1.3.pdf PDF — The swarm-resiliency write-up (v1.3) — early framing of covert-misbehavior propagation and macro mission failure.
- mission_family.pdf PDF — The mission-family reference: the deployment landscape behind the mission taxonomy.
- Stealth Attacks on Swarms.pdf PDF — The compiled "Stealth Attacks on Swarms" paper PDF.
- StealthAttacksOnSwarms_overleaf.zip ZIP — The full Overleaf project archive for the paper — LaTeX sources, sections, figures, and bibliography.
- advML_report.pdf PDF — The adversarial-ML report — background survey of attacks and defenses informing the threat model.
- ExoRL_report.pdf PDF — The ExoRL report — exploratory reinforcement-learning notes feeding the early method choices.
- Formalization.docx DOCX — The earlier Word-format formalization draft that preceded formalism.tex.
- mission-taxonomy/main.pdf PDF — The compiled standalone mission-taxonomy document, including the ternary-simplex figure (see Missions for the in-site version).
- mission-taxonomy/main.tex LaTeX — LaTeX source for the mission-taxonomy document above (its missions.bib and Images/ live alongside it in the same folder).
- marl_taxonomy/ (YAML source tree) Folder — The auto-generation source for the Field Map: the generated README.md plus the data/ entry/survey YAML, schema/ pydantic models, and build Makefile. Browse the folder from the linked README.
3Code repositories (not bundled)
Code lives in its own repositories. The full code-and-docs corpora for RedWithinBlue/ (the JAX MARL experiments engine), zymera_env/ (the swarm-explore engine), and zymera_lab/ (the consolidated simulator + lab) are maintained in their own git repositories and are not bundled into this static site. The narrative, architecture, and results drawn from them are written up in the pages linked in Section 1.