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We study the self-assembly of a complex network of collaborations among self-interested agents. The agents can maintain different levels of cooperation with different partners. Further, they continuously, selectively, and independently…

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People organize in groups and contagions spread across them. A simple process, but complex to model due to dynamical correlations within groups and between groups. Groups can also change as agents join and leave them to avoid infection. To…

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We study systems of interacting reinforced stochastic processes, where agents' decisions evolve under reinforcement, network-mediated interactions, and environmental influences. In competitive environments with irreducible networks, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Michele Aleandri , Paolo Dai Pra , Ida Germana Minelli

Learning to cooperate is crucially important in multi-agent environments. The key is to understand the mutual interplay between agents. However, multi-agent environments are highly dynamic, where agents keep moving and their neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jiechuan Jiang , Chen Dun , Tiejun Huang , Zongqing Lu

The ability of groups to make accurate collective decisions depends on a complex interplay of various factors, such as prior information, biases, social influence, and the structure of the interaction network. Here, we investigate a spin…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-20 Yunus Sevinchan , Petro Sarkanych , Abi Tenenbaum , Yurij Holovatch , Pawel Romanczuk

Multi-agent learning has gained increasing attention to tackle distributed machine learning scenarios under constrictions of data exchanging. However, existing multi-agent learning models usually consider data fusion under fixed and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Enpei Zhang , Shuo Tang , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Generative agents have proven to be powerful assistants in a wide variety of contexts. Given this success, users are now deploying agents with minimal restrictions in open ended, multi-agent environments. Current methods for monitoring the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hayden Helm , Carey Priebe , Brandon Duderstadt

The structure of communication networks is an important determinant of the capacity of teams, organizations and societies to solve policy, business and science problems. Yet, previous studies reached contradictory results about the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Daniel Barkoczi , Mirta Galesic

The design of distributed autonomous systems often omits consideration of the underlying network dynamics. Recent works in multi-agent systems and swarm robotics alike have highlighted the impact that the interactions between agents have on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Michael Crosscombe , Jonathan Lawry

We study the effect of learning dynamics on network topology. A network of discrete dynamical systems is considered for this purpose and the coupling strengths are made to evolve according to a temporal learning rule that is based on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Jost , Kiran M. Kolwankar

This work studies the problem of inferring whether an agent is directly influenced by another agent over an adaptive diffusion network. Agent i influences agent j if they are connected (according to the network topology), and if agent j…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

Effectively capturing the joint distribution of all agents in a scene is relevant for predicting the true evolution of the scene and in turn providing more accurate information to the decision processes of autonomous vehicles. While new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Anna Mészáros , Javier Alonso-Mora , Jens Kober

A common technique to improve learning performance in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and many other machine learning algorithms is to run multiple learning agents in parallel. A neglected component in the development of these algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Dhaval Adjodah , Dan Calacci , Abhimanyu Dubey , Anirudh Goyal , Peter Krafft , Esteban Moro , Alex Pentland

Learning influence pathways of a network of dynamically related processes from observations is of considerable importance in many disciplines. In this article, influence networks of agents which interact dynamically via linear dependencies…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Saurav Talukdar , Deepjyoti Deka , Harish Doddi , Donatello Materassi , Misha Chertkov , Murti V. Salapaka

In numerous artificial intelligence applications, the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents are imperative for the successful attainment of target objectives. To enhance coordination among these agents, a distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shengchao Hu , Li Shen , Ya Zhang , Dacheng Tao

There is currently growing interest in modeling the information diffusion on social networks across multi-disciplines. The majority of the corresponding research has focused on information diffusion independently, ignoring the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-28 Chuang Liu , Nan Zhou , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Gui-Quan Sun , Zi-Ke Zhang

We examine settings in which agents choose behaviors and care about their neighbors' behaviors, but have incomplete information about the network in which they are embedded. We develop a model in which agents use local knowledge of their…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-12-04 Promit K. Chaudhuri , Matthew O. Jackson , Sudipta Sarangi , Hector Tzavellas

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) gained traction for graph representation learning, with recent attention on improving performance on heterophilic graphs for various real-world applications. The localized feature aggregation in a typical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Garv Kaushik

While actors in a population can interact with anyone else freely, social relations significantly influence our inclination towards particular individuals. The consequence of such interactions, however, may also form the intensity of our…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-24 Xiaojin Xiong , Ziyan Zeng , Minyu Feng , Attila Szolnoki

We introduce a simple time-triggered protocol to achieve communication-efficient non-Bayesian learning over a network. Specifically, we consider a scenario where a group of agents interact over a graph with the aim of discerning the true…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Shreyas Sundaram