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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic global optimization paradigm that has gained prominence in the last two decades due to its ease of application in unsupervised, complex multidimensional problems which cannot be solved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Saptarshi Sengupta , Sanchita Basak , Richard Alan Peters

In this paper, we reconsider the spin model suggested recently to understand some features of collective decision making among higher organisms [A.T. Hartnett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (2016) 038701]. Within the model, the state of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 Petro Sarkanych , Mariana Krasnytska , Luis Gómez-Nava , Pawel Romanczuk , Yurij Holovatch

We present a novel interdisciplinary framework that bridges synchronization theory and multi-agent AI systems by adapting the Kuramoto model to describe the collective dynamics of heterogeneous AI agents engaged in complex task execution.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chiranjit Mitra

We propose a probabilistic modeling framework for learning the dynamic patterns in the collective behaviors of social agents and developing profiles for different behavioral groups, using data collected from multiple information sources.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-28 Lin Li , Ananthram Swami , Anna Scaglione

Resource allocation and task prioritisation are key problem domains in the fields of autonomous vehicles, networking, and cloud computing. The challenge in developing efficient and robust algorithms comes from the dynamic nature of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Niall Creech , Natalia Criado Pacheco , Simon Miles

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

Effective human-human and human-autonomy teamwork is critical but often challenging to perfect. The challenge is particularly relevant in time-critical domains, such as healthcare and disaster response, where the time pressures can make…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Sangwon Seo , Bing Han , Vaibhav Unhelkar

Human activity discovery aims to cluster the activities performed by humans without any prior information on what defines each activity. Most methods presented in human activity recognition are supervised, where there are labeled inputs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Parham Hadikhani , Daphne Teck Ching Lai , Wee-Hong Ong

Nature-inspired swarm-based algorithms have been widely applied to tackle high-dimensional and complex optimization problems across many disciplines. They are general purpose optimization algorithms, easy to use and implement, flexible and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Kwok Pui Choi , Enzio Hai Hong Kam , Tze Leung Lai , Xin T. Tong , Weng Kee Wong

Taking inspiration from nature for meta-heuristics has proven popular and relatively successful. Many are inspired by the collective intelligence exhibited by insects, fish and birds. However, there is a question over their scalability to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Darren M. Chitty , Elizabeth Wanner , Rakhi Parmar , Peter R. Lewis

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a class of metaheuristic global optimization methods inspired by the process of natural selection among individuals in a population. Despite their widespread use, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Giacomo Borghi , Lorenzo Pareschi

Many important collective decision-making problems can be seen as multi-agent versions of discrete optimisation problems. Participatory budgeting, for instance, is the collective version of the knapsack problem; other examples include…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Linus Boes , Rachael Colley , Umberto Grandi , Jerome Lang , Arianna Novaro

Group Search Optimizer(GSO) is one of the best algorithms, is very new in the field of Evolutionary Computing. It is very robust and efficient algorithm, which is inspired by animal searching behaviour. The paper describes an application of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-20 G. Kishore Kumar , V. K. Jayaraman

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a widely used nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. However, when running the PSO algorithm, one encounters the phenomenon of so-called stagnation, that means in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

Simulating how organized groups (e.g., corporations) make decisions (e.g., responding to a competitor's move) is essential for understanding real-world dynamics and could benefit relevant applications (e.g., market prediction). In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinkai Zou , Yiming Huang , Zhuohang Wu , Jian Sha , Nan Huang , Longfei Yun , Jingbo Shang , Letian Peng

This paper considers a time-varying optimization problem associated with a network of systems, with each of the systems shared by (and affecting) a number of individuals. The objective is to minimize cost functions associated with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Ana M. Ospina , Andrea Simonetto , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Coordination of multi agent systems remains as a problem since there is no prominent method to completely solve this problem. Metaheuristic agents are specific implementations of multi-agent systems, which imposes working together to solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Mehmet Emin Aydin

Flocking behavior has attracted considerable attention in multi-agent systems. The structure of flocking has been predominantly studied through the application of artificial potential fields coupled with velocity consensus. These…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Logan E. Beaver , Chris Kroninger , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Whether a population of decision-making individuals will reach a state of satisfactory decisions is a fundamental problem in studying collective behaviors. In the framework of evolutionary game theory and by means of potential functions,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Negar Sakhaei , Zeinab Maleki , Pouria Ramazi

Multi-agent systems provide a powerful way to extend large language models (LLMs) by decomposing a complex task into specialized subtasks handled by different agents. However, their performance is often hindered by error propagation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zheng Wang , Yuang Liu , Yangkai Ding