Reviews: No-Press Diplomacy: Modeling Multi-Agent Gameplay

All reviewers agree that this paper explores interesting territory, i.e., multi-agent Learning in the Diplomacy game. It is a well written and presented paper. The paper has generated quite some discussion after the rebuttal, discussing all pros and cons of the work. The major point in favor of the work (as also indicated by the authors themselves) seems to be that the work lays some ground work for future research in the Diplomacy game, that is known to be very hard and challenging. The biggest point of concern is that the paper presents little innovation in the techniques that it deploys but rather shows how the SOTA can be used/engineered to be successful in this domain to a certain extent, and illustrates the performance of known algorithms.