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System combination is an important technique for combining the hypotheses of different machine translation systems to improve translation performance. Although early statistical approaches to system combination have been proven effective in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Xuancheng Huang , Jiacheng Zhang , Zhixing Tan , Derek F. Wong , Huanbo Luan , Jingfang Xu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

We introduce a novel multi-agent collaboration framework designed to enhance the accuracy and robustness of text classification models. Leveraging BERT as the primary classifier, our framework dynamically escalates low-confidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Hediyeh Baban , Sai A Pidapar , Aashutosh Nema , Sichen Lu

We derive fundamental performance limitations for intrinsic average consensus problems in open multi-agent systems, which are systems subject to frequent arrivals and departures of agents. Each agent holds a value, and the objective of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Charles Monnoyer de Galland , Julien M. Hendrickx

The consensus over multi-agent networks can be accelerated by introducing agent's memory to the control protocol. In this paper, a more general protocol with the node memory and the state deviation memory is designed. We aim to provide the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Jiahao Dai , Jing-Wen Yi , Li Chai

The emergence of large-scale multi-agent systems has led to controller synthesis methods for sparse communication between agents. However, most sparse controller synthesis algorithms remain centralized, requiring information exchange and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Ingyu Jang , Ethan J. LoCicero , Leila Bridgeman

We consider the problem of multi-agent consensus where some agents are subject to faults/attacks and might make updates arbitrarily. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued (i.e., quantized) states under directed communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Seyed Mehran Dibaji , Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

Learning to coordinate actions among agents is essential in complicated multi-agent systems. Prior works are constrained mainly by the assumption that all agents act simultaneously, and asynchronous action coordination between agents is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Jingqing Ruan , Linghui Meng , Xuantang Xiong , Dengpeng Xing , Bo Xu

Volt-VAR control (VVC) is a critical application in active distribution network management system to reduce network losses and improve voltage profile. To remove dependency on inaccurate and incomplete network models and enhance resiliency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Yuanqi Gao , Wei Wang , Nanpeng Yu

Generalized from the concept of consensus, this paper considers a group of edge agreements, i.e. constraints defined for neighboring agents, in which each pair of neighboring agents is required to satisfy one edge agreement constraint. Edge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Zehui Lu , Shaoshuai Mou

A Multi-Agent Cooperative Learning (MACL) system is an artificial intelligence (AI) system where multiple learning agents work together to complete a common task. Recent empirical success of MACL systems in various domains (e.g. traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jialin Yi

In this paper, we study the continuous-time consensus problem in the presence of adversaries. The networked multi-agent system is modeled as a switched system, where the normal agents have integrator dynamics and the switching signal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Heath J. LeBlanc , Haotian Zhang , Shreyas Sundaram , Xenofon Koutsoukos

We present a new and efficient algorithm for determining a consensus value for a network of agents. Different from existing algorithms, our algorithm evaluates the consensus value for very large networks using heat kernel pagerank. We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Fan Chung , Olivia Simpson

Three models were presented in M.K. Khakim Habibi, Hamid Allaoui, Gilles Goncalves, Collaborative hub location problem under cost uncertainty, Computers & Industrial Engineering Volume 124, October 2018, Pages 393-410 as models for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Shahin Gelareh

The central result of this paper is the analysis of an optimization problem which allows one to assess the limiting performance of a team of two agents who coordinate their actions. One agent is fully informed about the past and future…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Benjamin Larrousse , Achal Agrawal , Samson Lasaulce

This paper investigates the distributed optimal output consensus problem of heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems over weight-unbalanced directed networks. A novel distributed continuous-time state feedback controller is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Jin Zhang , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji , Xinghu Wang

Responsible AI has risen to the forefront of the AI research community. As neural network-based learning algorithms continue to permeate real-world applications, the field of Responsible AI has played a large role in ensuring that such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Niko A. Grupen

The purpose of this short paper is to provide a theoretical analysis for the consensus problem under nonlinear protocols. A main contribution of this work is to generalize the previous consensus problems under nonlinear protocols for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-04-24 Xiwei Liu , Tianping Chen

Large language models are increasingly being assembled into medical multi-agent systems that emulate multidisciplinary consultation through specialist roles, peer review and consensus formation. In clinical decision support, however,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yinghao Zhu , Lei Gu , Zixiang Wang , Haoran Sang , Dehao Sui , Wen Tang , Lan Mi , Yasha Wang , Junyi Gao , Liang Yao , Tianfan Fu , Ewen Harrison , Lequan Yu , Liantao Ma

The coordination and cooperation of all the stakeholders involved is a decisive point for the control and the resolution of problems. In the insecurity events, the resolution should refer to a plan that defines a general framework of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-14 Ahmed Maalel , Henda Ben Ghézala

During the past two decades, multi-agent optimization problems have drawn increased attention from the research community. When multiple objective functions are present among agents, many works optimize the sum of these objective functions.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-13 M. J. Blondin , M. T. Hale