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We study Nash equilibrium learning in partially observable Markov games (POMGs), a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework in which agents cannot fully observe the underlying state. Prior work in this setting relies on centralization…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Philip Jordan , Maryam Kamgarpour

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide an elegant mathematical framework for modeling complex decision and planning problems in stochastic domains in which states of the system are observable only indirectly, via a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 M. Hauskrecht

The multiple-target self-organizing pursuit (SOP) problem has wide applications and has been considered a challenging self-organization game for distributed systems, in which intelligent agents cooperatively pursue multiple dynamic targets…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Lijun Sun , Yu-Cheng Chang , Chao Lyu , Ye Shi , Yuhui Shi , Chin-Teng Lin

Partially Observable Markov Games (POMGs) provide a general framework for modeling multi-agent sequential decision-making under asymmetric information. A common approach is to reformulate a POMG as a fully observable Markov game over belief…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Lan Sang , Chinmay Maheshwari

We consider multiple access games in which primary users are interested in maximizing their confidential data rate at the minimum possible transmission power and secondary users employ eavesdropping as a leverage to maximize their data rate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Karim Khalil , Eylem Ekici

In cognitive radio (CR) networks, the secondary users (SUs) sense the spectrum licensed to the primary users (PUs) to identify and possibly transmit over temporarily unoccupied channels. Cooperative sensing was proposed to improve the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Yuan Lu , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

We consider the problem of interactive partially observable Markov decision processes (I-POMDPs), where the agents are located at the nodes of a communication network. Specifically, we assume a certain message type for all messages.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yitao Chen , Deepanshu Vasal

We address the problem of power allocation and secondary user (SU) selection in the downlink from a secondary base station (SBS) equipped with a large number of antennas in an underlay cognitive radio network. A new optimization framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-20 Shailesh Chaudhari , Danijela Cabric

In this paper, a Stackelberg game is built to model the hierarchic power allocation of primary user (PU) network and secondary user (SU) network in OFDM-based cognitive radio (CR) networks. We formulate the PU and the SUs as the leader and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Tian Zhang , Wei Chen , Zhu Han , Zhigang Cao

Decentralized policies for information gathering are required when multiple autonomous agents are deployed to collect data about a phenomenon of interest without the ability to communicate. Decentralized partially observable Markov decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Mikko Lauri , Joni Pajarinen , Jan Peters

Multiagent decision-making in partially observable environments is usually modelled as either an extensive-form game (EFG) in game theory or a partially observable stochastic game (POSG) in multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL). One…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Vojtěch Kovařík , Martin Schmid , Neil Burch , Michael Bowling , Viliam Lisý

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs) are rich models for cooperative decision-making under uncertainty, but are often intractable to solve optimally (NEXP-complete). The transition and observation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Jilles S. Dibangoye , Christopher Amato , Arnoud Doniec

Owing to the ever-increasing demand in wireless spectrum, Cognitive Radio (CR) was introduced as a technique to attain high spectral efficiency. As the number of secondary users (SUs) connecting to the cognitive radio network is on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Thulasi Tholeti , Vishnu Raj , Sheetal Kalyani

This paper extends the framework of partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) to multi-agent settings by incorporating the notion of agent models into the state space. Agents maintain beliefs over physical states of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-13 P. Doshi , P. J. Gmytrasiewicz

We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) modeling an agent that needs a supply of a certain resource (e.g., electricity stored in batteries) to operate correctly. The resource is consumed by agent's actions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Michal Ajdarów , Šimon Brlej , Petr Novotný

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are stochastic optimization problems that model situations where a decision maker controls a system based on its state. Partially observed Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are generalizations of MDPs where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Victor Cohen , Axel Parmentier

We study the problem of jointly selecting sensing agents and synthesizing decentralized active perception policies for the chosen subset of agents within a Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (Dec-POMDP) framework.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Chongyang Shi , Wesley A. Suttle , Michael Dorothy , Jie Fu

We consider a class of sequential decision-making problems under uncertainty that can encompass various types of supervised learning concepts. These problems have a completely observed state process and a partially observed modulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-24 R. Reid Bishop , Chelsea C. White

This paper investigates the problem of distributed medium access control in a time slotted wireless multiple access network with an unknown finite number of homogeneous users. Assume that each user has a single transmission option. In each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yanru Tang , Faeze Heydaryan , Jie Luo

In this paper, we propose a multiple-level power allocation strategy for the secondary user (SU) in cognitive radio (CR) networks. Different from the conventional strategies, where SU either stays silent or transmit with a constant/binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Zhong Chen , Feifei Gao , Zhenwei Zhang , James C. F. Li , Ming Lei