NetForge RL: Multi-Agent Cyber Defense Simulation with Durative Actions

Jul 15, 2026

NetForge RL is a multi-agent simulation environment designed for cyber defense research, featuring procedurally generated enterprise and operational technology (OT) networks. It supports red-blue team self-play under partial observability, with actions mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and a JAX backend capable of 250,000 steps per second. The environment includes reference baselines, diagnostic probes for defensive skills, and an evaluation runner for reproducible benchmarking.

Why it matters: NetForge RL offers a realistic and reproducible testbed for developing and evaluating multi-agent reinforcement learning systems in cyber defense scenarios with adaptive adversaries and noisy, partial observations.

Full story at: arXiv Multiagent Systems ↗