FAQ
What does Arboria Labs work on?
Swarm intelligence and distributed multi-agent systems at scale. Our research covers delay-tolerant coordination under hour-scale light delays (ICCD), emergent-behavior phase diagrams for space-exploration swarms (DMB / TF-ACO), and macro-micro coordination for autonomous planetary construction (HMA). See the research index.
How large a swarm can Leviathan simulate?
Current published runs reach 1×10⁶ agents on a single CPU node with the spatial-partition-accelerated physics core. With the upcoming OpenMP and (later) CUDA paths we target 10⁷ on a single workstation. See the Leviathan Engine page.
Is the tooling open source?
Leviathan Engine and Gossamer Threaded Intelligence ship source-open under permissive licenses. Maneuver.Map’s backend is open; the UI is open but deployment is gated behind an environment-specific build. Policy modules used internally for unpublished research are held back until the relevant paper lands.
How do I reproduce a paper?
Every paper that follows our 2026-onward template records seeds, wheel
SHAs, git commit, and configs in experiment.json. For a given paper,
see its Reproducibility appendix or /research/reproducibility for
the per-paper runbook. The Maneuver.Map notebooks load
any exp_id and reproduce the canonical figures.
Do you collaborate with universities?
Yes — we’re actively open to student collaborations, joint papers, and shared benchmarks. Reach out at community@arborialabs.com and see the Community page for labs and testbeds we work with.
What counts as “dual-use” research at Arboria?
Swarm methods are inherently dual-use. We do not contribute directly to lethal autonomous weapons systems and we gate publications that would materially accelerate them. For planetary / orbital work we treat Kessler risk and forward contamination as first-order design constraints. See our principles.
How do I stay updated?
- Latest updates — human-readable feed of releases and publications.
- GitHub org — tool repositories, discussions, and issue trackers.
Can I cite your work?
Please do. Each research page has a BibTeX block at the bottom; the publications list is the canonical structured index. For tool citations, each tool page has its own BibTeX entry — cite the tool version you used for full reproducibility.
How is Arboria different from other swarm research groups?
Two things. First, we publish measurement-first: papers land with working code, configs, and reproducibility artifacts rather than numbers in isolation. Second, the tooling is built for scale — most comparable research tops out at a few thousand agents, and our baselines start at 10⁴ and push to 10⁶.