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We study a collaborative revenue management problem where multiple decentralized parties agree to share some of their capacities. This collaboration is performed by constructing a large mathematical programming model available to all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Utku Karaca , S. Ilker Birbil , Nursen Aydin , Gizem Mullaoglu

This paper investigates the distributed online optimization problem over a multi-agent network subject to local set constraints and coupled inequality constraints, which has a lot of applications in many areas, such as wireless sensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Xiuxian Li , Xinlei Yi , Lihua Xie

This paper studies the problem of multi-agent computation under the differential privacy requirement of the agents' local datasets against eavesdroppers having node-to-node communications. We first propose for the network equipped with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Lei Wang , Yang Liu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, making it a promising approach for privacy-preserving machine learning. However, ensuring differential privacy (DP) in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Kanishka Ranaweera , David Smith , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Ming Ding , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , Aruna Seneviratne

We are entering an era in which individuals and organizations increasingly deploy dedicated AI agents that interact and collaborate with other agents. However, the dynamics of multi-agent collaboration under privacy constraints remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Minjun Park , Donghyun Kim , Hyeonjong Ju , Seungwon Lim , Dongwook Choi , Taeyoon Kwon , Minju Kim , Jinyoung Yeo

Modern supply networks are complex interconnected systems. Multi-agent models are increasingly explored to optimise their performance. Most research assumes agents will have full observability of the system by having a single policy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Wan Wang , Haiyan Wang , Adam Sobey

Organizations are collecting vast amounts of data, but they often lack the capabilities needed to fully extract insights. As a result, they increasingly share data with external experts, such as analysts or researchers, to gain value from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yusi Wei , Hande Y. Benson , Joseph K. Agor , Muge Capan

This paper describes a number of distributed forward search algorithms for solving multi-agent planning problems. We introduce a distributed formulation of non-optimal forward search, as well as an optimal version, MAD-A*. Our algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Raz Nissim , Ronen Brafman

In this work, we consider a federated learning model in a wireless system with multiple base stations and inter-cell interference. We apply a differential private scheme to transmit information from users to their corresponding base station…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Nima Tavangaran , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , José Mairton B. Da Silva , H. Vincent Poor

The rapid development of affordable and compact high-fidelity sensors (e.g., cameras and LIDAR) allows robots to construct detailed estimates of their states and environments. However, the availability of such rich sensor information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Vincent Pacelli , Anirudha Majumdar

Online multi-agent control problems, where many agents pursue competing and time-varying objectives, are widespread in domains such as autonomous robotics, economics, and energy systems. In these settings, robustness to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Anas Barakat , John Lazarsfeld , Georgios Piliouras , Antonios Varvitsiotis

Information communicated within cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is often used in determining the physical states of such systems, and malicious adversaries may intercept these communications in order to infer future states of a CPS or its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Matthew Hale , Austin Jones , Kevin Leahy

Finding optimal adversarial attack strategies is an important topic in reinforcement learning and the Markov decision process. Previous studies usually assume one all-knowing coordinator (attacker) for whom attacking different recipient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ziqing Lu , Guanlin Liu , Lifeng Lai , Weiyu Xu

This paper studies a distributed multi-agent convex optimization problem. The system comprises multiple agents in this problem, each with a set of local data points and an associated local cost function. The agents are connected to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Kushal Chakrabarti , Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

Learning to cooperate with friends and compete with foes is a key component of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Typically to do so, one requires access to either a model of or interaction with the other agent(s). Here we show how to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-03 DJ Strouse , Max Kleiman-Weiner , Josh Tenenbaum , Matt Botvinick , David Schwab

In many real-world multi-agent cooperative tasks, due to high cost and risk, agents cannot continuously interact with the environment and collect experiences during learning, but have to learn from offline datasets. However, the transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

Distributed control algorithms are known to reduce overall computation time compared to centralized control algorithms. However, they can result in inconsistent solutions leading to the violation of safety-critical constraints. Inconsistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Julius Beerwerth , Maximilian Kloock , Bassam Alrifaee

This paper addresses the problem of collaboratively satisfying long-term spatial constraints in multi-agent systems. Each agent is subject to spatial constraints, expressed as inequalities, which may depend on the positions of other agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Farhad Mehdifar , Mani H. Dhullipalla , Charalampos P. Bechlioulis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper studies the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem under limited communication, where each agent aims to keep its cost function private while minimizing the sum of all agents' cost functions. To this end, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

Multi-agent systems outperform single agent in complex collaborative tasks. However, in large-scale scenarios, ensuring timely information exchange during decentralized task execution remains a challenge. This work presents an online…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Junjie Wang , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li