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Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used to perform complex, multi-step workflows in regulated settings such as compliance and due diligence. However, many agentic architectures rely primarily on prompt engineering of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ananya Joshi , Michael Rudow

Consider a multi-agent system in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Each agent's local decision problem is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP) and agents must coordinate on a joint action in each period, which provides a reward to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Ruggiero Cavallo , David C. Parkes , Satinder Singh

In cooperative multiagent planning, it can often be beneficial for an agent to make commitments about aspects of its behavior to others, allowing them in turn to plan their own behaviors without taking the agent's detailed behavior into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Qi Zhang , Satinder Singh , Edmund Durfee

In this paper, we investigate learning temporal abstractions in cooperative multi-agent systems, using the options framework (Sutton et al, 1999). First, we address the planning problem for the decentralized POMDP represented by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Jhelum Chakravorty , Nadeem Ward , Julien Roy , Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert , Sumana Basu , Andrei Lupu , Doina Precup

Complex medical reasoning has historically required frontier language models to achieve clinically-acceptable accuracy, creating computational barriers that limit deployment in resource-constrained clinical settings. We present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Pranav Pushkar Mishra , Mohammad Arvan , Mohan Zalake

Witsenhausen, in his seminal 1971 paper [1], introduced decentralized partially observable Markov decision problems (POMDPs), with multiple agents or controls operating under T-step delayed sharing information patterns. A fundamental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Umarbek Guvercin , Seddik Djouadi

Planning under uncertainty is a central problem in the study of automated sequential decision making, and has been addressed by researchers in many different fields, including AI planning, decision analysis, operations research, control…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 C. Boutilier , T. Dean , S. Hanks

To achieve autonomy in complex real-world exploration missions, we consider deployment strategies for a team of robots with heterogeneous autonomy capabilities. In this work, we formulate a multi-robot exploration mission and compute an…

As Large Language Models (LLMs) get integrated into diverse workflows, they are increasingly being regarded as "collaborators" with humans, and required to work in coordination with other AI systems. If such AI collaborators are to reliably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Abhijnan Nath , Carine Graff , Nikhil Krishnaswamy

The main goal of this paper is to investigate continuous-time distributed dynamic programming (DP) algorithms for networked multi-agent Markov decision problems (MAMDPs). In our study, we adopt a distributed multi-agent framework where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Donghwan Lee , Han-Dong Lim , Do Wan Kim

A team of robots sharing a common goal can benefit from coordination of the activities of team members, helping the team to reach the goal more reliably or quickly. We address the problem of coordinating the actions of a team of robots with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Mikko Lauri , Eero Heinänen , Simone Frintrop

Allocating scarce resources among agents to maximize global utility is, in general, computationally challenging. We focus on problems where resources enable agents to execute actions in stochastic environments, modeled as Markov decision…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-10-13 D. A. Dolgov , E. H. Durfee

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in various fields. However, challenges remain in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) medical consultations. Current research enhances reasoning through role assignment, task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kai Chen , Xinfeng Li , Tianpei Yang , Hewei Wang , Wei Dong , Yang Gao

Many AI researchers are today striving to build agent teams for complex, dynamic multi-agent domains, with intended applications in arenas such as education, training, entertainment, information integration, and collective robotics.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 M. Tambe

This paper addresses the limitations of a single agent in task decomposition and collaboration during complex task execution, and proposes a multi-agent architecture for modular task decomposition and dynamic collaboration based on large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shuaidong Pan , Di Wu

We propose Teamwork Synthesis, a version of the distributed synthesis problem with application to teamwork multi-agent systems. We reformulate the distributed synthesis question by dropping the fixed interaction architecture among agents as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yehia Abd Alrahman , Nir Piterman

We investigate a multi-agent decision-making problem where a large population of agents is responsible for carrying out a set of assigned tasks. The amount of jobs in each task varies over time governed by a dynamical system model. Each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Shinkyu Park , Julian Barreiro-Gomez

This paper proposes a quantum framework for the design of communication topologies in consensus-based multi-agent systems. The communication graph is selected online by solving a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP) that minimizes a cost…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Milad Hasanzadeh , Amin Kargarian

We study a multi-agent mean field type control problem in discrete time where the agents aim to find a socially optimal strategy and where the state and action spaces for the agents are assumed to be continuous. The agents are only weakly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Erhan Bayraktar , Nicole Bauerle , Ali Devran Kara

A major challenge for world models in multi-agent systems is to understand interdependent agent dynamics, predict interactive multi-agent trajectories, and plan over long horizons with collective awareness, without centralized supervision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lingyi Wang , Rashed Shelim , Walid Saad , Naren Ramakrishna