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title: Multiverse
type: vocabulary
url: "https://www.envisioning.com/vocab/multiverse"
summary: Multi-agent world model approach concatenating agent states into split-screen representation
year: 2024
generality: 0.45
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# Multiverse

Multi-agent world model approach concatenating agent states into split-screen representation
Multiverse is an early approach to multi-agent world models that concatenates agent states into a single split-screen representation, effectively treating multiple players as one unified world state.

In this approach, each agent's observed state is concatenated alongside others in a unified representation. The world model processes all concatenated states simultaneously and generates output for each agent, effectively running multiple views through a single model but with separation baked into the input/output structure.

This approach has a fundamental limitation: it does not scale efficiently with the number of agents, and both Multiverse and similar approaches struggle to robustly maintain consistency when players lose sight of one another. The split-screen representation does not preserve true shared state — each view is generated from the concatenated states rather than from a single authoritative source.

Multiverse represents an important stepping stone but has been superseded by architectures that maintain explicit shared world state.

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Source: Envisioning — Technology Research Institute (https://www.envisioning.com/vocab/multiverse)