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We revisit multi-agent delegation under a stronger and more realistic assumption: an agent's capability is not fixed at the skill level, but depends on task context. A coding agent may excel at short standalone edits yet fail on…

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This article provides an introduction to event-triggered coordination for multi-agent average consensus. We provide a comprehensive account of the motivations behind the use of event-triggered strategies for consensus, the methods for…

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In this paper we study energy efficient joint power allocation and beamforming for coordinated multicell multiuser downlink systems. The considered optimization problem is in a non-convex fractional form and hard to tackle. We propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 He Shiwen , Huang Yongming , Jin Shi , Yang Luxi

In this paper, further extensions of the result of the paper "A successive approximation method in functional spaces for hierarchical optimal control problems and its application to learning, arXiv:2410.20617 [math.OC], 2024" concerning a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Getachew K. Befekadu

This paper presents an online adaptive learning solution to optimal synchronization control problem of heterogeneous multi-agent systems via a novel distributed policy iteration approach.

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Furong Gao

Contract automata allow to formally define the behaviour of service contracts in terms of service offers and requests, some of which are moreover optional and some of which are necessary. A composition of contracts is said to be in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Davide Basile , Maurice H. ter Beek

This document serves as supplementary material for a journal paper submission, presenting detailed mathematical proofs and derivations that support the results outlined in the main manuscript. In this work, we formulate an Integrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Keivan Khosroshahi , Michael Suppa

Neural networks (NNs) have been shown to learn complex control laws successfully, often with performance advantages or decreased computational cost compared to alternative methods. Neural network controllers (NNCs) are, however, highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Oliver Gates , Matthew Newton , Konstantinos Gatsis

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has emerged as a useful approach to solving decentralised decision-making problems at scale. Research in the field has been growing steadily with many breakthrough algorithms proposed in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Rihab Gorsane , Omayma Mahjoub , Ruan de Kock , Roland Dubb , Siddarth Singh , Arnu Pretorius

This paper studies the synchronization of a multi-agent system where the agents are coupled through heterogeneous controller gains. Synchronization refers to the situation where all the agents in a group have a common velocity direction. We…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Anoop Jain , Debasish Ghose

Experimental advances enabling high-resolution external control create new opportunities to produce materials with exotic properties. In this work, we investigate how a multi-agent reinforcement learning approach can be used to design…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-15 Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

Sequence learning has attracted much research attention from the machine learning community in recent years. In many applications, a sequence learning task is usually associated with multiple temporally correlated auxiliary tasks, which are…

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We consider a stochastic convex optimization problem that requires minimizing a sum of misspecified agentspecific expectation-valued convex functions over the intersection of a collection of agent-specific convex sets. This misspecification…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Aswin Kannan , Angelia Nedich , Uday V. Shanbhag

With the advent of 21st century and increasing advancements in the field of technology and connectivity, inter-networking in real-time has achieved great importance. Distributed control and multi-agent paradigm has groped rapidly with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Pratik K. Bajaria

This paper proposes a novel scalable type of multi-agent reinforcement learning-based coordination for distributed residential energy. Cooperating agents learn to control the flexibility offered by electric vehicles, space heating and…

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The guaranteed-performance consensualization for high-order linear and nonlinear multiagent systems with switching topologies is respectively realized in a completely distributed manner in the sense that consensus design criteria are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jianxiang Xi , Cheng Wang , Hao Liu , Le Wang

Continuing earlier investigations, we analyze the convergence of operator splitting procedures combined with spatial discretization and rational approximations.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-03 András Bátkai , Petra Csomós , Bálint Farkas , Gregor Nickel

It is possible to approach regression analysis with random covariates from a semiparametric perspective where information is combined from multiple multivariate sources. The approach assumes a semiparametric density ratio model where…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-02 Anastasia Voulgaraki , Benjamin Kedem , Barry I. Graubard

This paper studies distributed resilient consensus problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems susceptible to deception attacks. The attacks invade both sensor and actuator channels of each agent. A specific class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mengze Yu , Wei Wang , Jiaqi Yan

The purpose of this report is to define abstractions for multi-agent systems under coupled constraints. In the proposed decentralized framework, we specify a finite or countable transition system for each agent which only takes into account…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Dimitris Boskos , Dimos V. Dimarogonas