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In this paper, we study robust distributed sub-optimal coordination of linear agents subject to input nonlinearities. Inspired by the robust agreement literature, we formulate a bounded distributed sub-optimal coordination problem, in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Takumi Namba

Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrated to push the boundaries of LLM capabilities, yet they often incur significant costs and face challenges in dynamic LLM selection. Current LLM routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yanwei Yue , Guibin Zhang , Boyang Liu , Guancheng Wan , Kun Wang , Dawei Cheng , Yiyan Qi

Large Language Model (LLM) based multi-agent systems (MAS) show remarkable potential in collaborative problem-solving, yet they still face critical challenges: low communication efficiency, poor scalability, and a lack of effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Weize Chen , Jiarui Yuan , Chen Qian , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Multi-agent systems (MAS) built on large language models promise improved problem-solving through collaboration, yet they often fail to consistently outperform strong single-agent baselines due to error propagation at inter-agent message…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bohan Lin , Kuo Yang , Zelin Tan , Yingchuan Lai , Chen Zhang , Guibin Zhang , Xinlei Yu , Miao Yu , Xu Wang , Yudong Zhang , Yang Wang

Constrained submodular set function maximization problems often appear in multi-agent decision-making problems with a discrete feasible set. A prominent example is the problem of multi-agent mobile sensor placement over a discrete domain.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Navid Rezazadeh , Solmaz S. Kia

We formulate selecting the best optimizing system (SBOS) problems and provide solutions for those problems. In an SBOS problem, a finite number of systems are contenders. Inside each system, a continuous decision variable affects the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-04 Nian Si , Yifu Tang , Zeyu Zheng

We consider leader-follower multi-agent systems that have many leaders, defined on any connected weighted undirected graphs, and address the leader selection and demotion problems. The leader selection problem is formulated as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Kazuhiro Sato

We study resilient leader-follower consensus of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of adversarial agents, where agents' communication is modeled by time-varying topologies. The objective is to develop distributed algorithms for the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Liwei Yuan , Hideaki Ishii

Service system performance depends on how participants respond to design choices, but modeling these responses is hard due to the complexity of human behavior. We introduce an LLM-powered multi-agent simulation (LLM-MAS) framework for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yanyuan Wang , Xiaowei Zhang

For an uncontrollable system, adding leaders and adjusting edge weights are two methods to improve controllability. In this paper, controllability of multi-agent systems under directed topologies is studied, especially on leader selection…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Bin Zhao , Yongqiang Guan , Long Wang

In this paper, a set-membership filtering-based leader-follower synchronization protocol for discrete-time linear multi-agent systems is proposed wherein the aim is to make the agents synchronize with a leader. The agents, governed by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Diganta Bhattacharjee , Kamesh Subbarao

In this paper, we consider a leader-following consensus problem for networks of continuous-time integrator agents with a time-varying leader under measurement noises. We propose a neighbor-based state-estimation protocol for every agent to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Yilun Shang

This paper addresses the finite-time non-overshooting leader-following consensus problem for multi-agent systems, whose agents are modeled by a dynamical system topologically equivalent to the integrator chain. Based on the weighted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Min Li , Andrey Polyakov , Siyuan Wang , Gang Zheng

Multi-agent systems (MAS) built on large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance across many tasks. Most existing approaches improve only one aspect at a time, such as the communication topology, role assignment, or LLM…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tianjun Yao , Zhaoyi Li , Zhiqiang Shen

In this paper, we show that the optimal receive antenna subset selection problem for maximizing the mutual information in a point-to-point MIMO system is sub-modular. Consequently, a greedy step-wise optimization approach, where at each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-15 Rahul Vaze , Harish Ganapathy

The difficulty and expense of obtaining large-scale human responses make Large Language Models (LLMs) an attractive alternative and a promising proxy for human behavior. However, prior work shows that LLMs often produce homogeneous outputs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Manh Hung Nguyen , Sebastian Tschiatschek , Adish Singla

In this paper, we propose a new and systematic design framework for output consensus in heterogeneous Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) general nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) subjected to directed communication topology. First, the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Dinh Hoa Nguyen

We propose a protocol to solve Leader Election within weak communication models such as the beeping model or the stone-age model. Unlike most previous work, our algorithm operates on only six states, does not require unique identifiers, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Robin Vacus , Isabella Ziccardi

In this paper, a multi-agent coordination problem with steady-state regulation constraints is investigated for a class of nonlinear systems. Unlike existing leader-following coordination formulations, the reference signal is not given by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Yutao Tang , Peng Yi

Estimation of the number of superimposed sinusoids in the presence of noise is an important model order selection (MOS) problem in statistical signal processing. In this paper, we propose a new approach to the design of MOS algorithms for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Aleksandr Kharin