MindGames Arena Generalization Track: In2AI Solution with Delayed Per-Step Reward Attribution

Training language model agents for multi-agent strategic interaction presents a core difficulty: the quality of any action may depend on future events that never materialize, on moves that violate game rules, or on decisions made by other players. Standard reinforcement learning assumes that rewards can be assigned at each step, but this assumption fails in settings where outcomes are entangled across time and agents. We introduce delayed per-step reward attribution with eligibility gating, an e